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Well, I'm back after more than six months. When I started this blog last year I talked about the train set that kicked this off. I made a throwaway remark in that opening post about turning the cattle wagon that came in the set into a wagon for scrap 'metal' (actually Lego Technic and Bionicle bits). But I didn't have any pictures of it. I then moved on to blog about tanker wagons and didn't say anything more about the newly repurposed scrap wagon.
So, this post is a bit late coming. Apologies!
What's prompted it is *cough* an eBay purchase of another cow wagon. I'd been meaning to get one for a while and then one finally appeared on eBay for less than £10 and, anyway, what we have here is effectively a before and after shot of the new arrival complete with cow, and the converted scrap wagon.
You can see there in the picture how unsuitable the wagon is for transporting livestock. For one thing any cow worth it's salt would be able to jump out of there.
I like the Lego cow. It's quite a friendly looking beastie.
She also comes with a farmer to look after her. Again, not exactly true to life as putting a person in a metal cage wagon with a cow for a train journey is likely to end poorly. It's a nice mini-figure, though, complete with neatly trimmed beard.
The cow from my original set has been absorbed into my larger collection of Lego and this one is going to go the same way, along with her hay bales, her farmer friend and his red bucket. Actually I might keep the bucket for the goods shed area I'm planning. What I need to do now is sort out another scrap load a bit like this one.
I'm planning on using the blue crane to load and unload scrap on one of the sidings. I do have a tub somewhere of other Bionicle bits and random Lego parts that would be suitable for an industrial scrap-pile. I will fish them out shortly.
Meanwhile I have another project coming using one of the other wagons from the original set. It won't look like this for long!
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