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Me too!Peter Butler wrote: ↑Mon Dec 03, 2018 7:07 pm This is my favourite part of the build when a unifying primer coat is applied, all of a sudden everything blends into one unit....
Remember my railway represents a preserved/tourist line where all kinds of stock items are restored for use or display. As such there would be no 'payload', just something typical of the period, so I thought of a boring wooden packing crate with markings of the supposed contents.
My collection of military rail-mounted guns is well supported already and the neighbouring villages are getting quite concerned about our intentions!
No probs.Peter Butler wrote: ↑Tue Dec 04, 2018 12:07 pm
Thank you for the suggestion but apart from being well represented, die-cast guns in this scale are not easy to find and can be quite pricey!
On the WDLR the heavier caliber field guns would have been transported on their own special wagons where you could remove a bogie and then end load. Shells for Howitzers and other heavy field guns is more likely than the gun itself. I am thinking that 'heavy stores' of all varieties would have ended up in the well wagons, but 6 and 9 pounders are unlikely - as they would have been a beggar to load. It would have been easier to wrestle them on and off a D wagon.philipy wrote: ↑Tue Dec 04, 2018 6:04 am Peter, I don't know whast sort of loads these would ahve carried, other than as you say, packing crates. However I wonder if you could put something appropriately warlike, such as a field gun ( not a massive great howitzer!) which could also have been preserved by the local reenactment group?
A wagonload of ploughshares might put their minds at rest... And WDLR did end up on agricultural work after the war didn't it, lugging potatoes around in Lincs?Peter Butler wrote: ↑Tue Dec 04, 2018 12:07 pm
My collection of military rail-mounted guns is well supported already and the neighbouring villages are getting quite concerned about our intentions!
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