An overdue update- Part II
Entry posted by James Harrison
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As I said last time, my current modelling activities are generally of a variety that don't, taken individually, merit blog posts. Taken as a group though I think they do.
Last time I said I had finished a cardboard kit for an ex-Metropolitan carriage and was working on a pair of Parkside LNER fish vans.
Those vans are now finished and I have 'converted' them into GCR-ish vans of the unfitted variety. The conversion was very slight in nature- it amounted to omitting the vacuum cylinders and smoothing down the raised 'FISH' lettering on the doors.
Well, I think they look rather neat and tidy and I will be looking to buy up a few more, as and when I see them going for a song, to build up a rake. I already have five of the Bachmann type converted to GCR-ish examples as a fitted rake and it would be nice to have a similar rake of unfitted stock.
Moving on, I recently bought a rake of five Ratio GWR carriages repainted into GCR colours.
The level of finish is absolutely beautiful so I am limiting my meddling to the bare essentials. They don't have interiors but I am loathe to start breaking them apart to fit one; it just seems to be begging for something to go badly wrong.
My alterations then run solely to fitting Kadee couplings and doing something to get them roling freely. Either they weren't built with bearings, or the bearings have seized. I'm not about to go pulling the axles out of them to investigate- I shall be using a cocktail stick and some candlewax to coax them into running sweetly.
In addition to the three shown in the photograph are an additional composite and a brake third, which both require new chassis (which came as part of the sale). So these will be the next thing on my to-do list, after which I am planning to build some GCR cattle wagons by hackbashing the Dapol kit- and I'll be doing a blow-by-blow account of that having proved the concept to my satisfaction on a decript old Dapol cattle wagon I built years ago.
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