Van B
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Evening all.
I've decided to break with tradition and build a kit after the corresponding RTR model appears. Usually it's the other way round 
The subject matter was a Ratio Van B kit that I've had in the cupboard for years. Well actually I had two but the other one's going to be sold to make way for the new Hornby one, but I digress...
This will be for the Wheal Elizabeth passenger line to go behind a West Country or T9.
It was built pretty much as the instructions but used Bill Bedford 8ft sprung bogies which were built once I'd worked out what the instructions were trying to tell me.
It took most of the Jubilee week to build but made for a pleasant exercise. As others have said, it's an old school kit that means you have to stick about four parts together where nowadays it'd just be one moulding. Still I didn't lose any bits of hinge.
It's had the initial coat of weathering but needs a final waft of gunk and some touching up here and there. I haven't bothered adding the transfers as it's going to have a very heavily weathered finish.
One word of warning: I used the Roxey Mouldings etch for the bars behind the windows and treated them with gun blue. I then used Johnsons Klear to stick them to the rear of the glazing. You can just see that the bars have developed a green tinge which I'm guessing is the Klear reacting with the gun blue. I'm not that bothered about it as the windows are going to be sprayed over with the final weathering coat. Otherwise I'd be removing it all and starting again.
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