Not much has happened on the wagon front recently as I've busy battling an Ian Kirk 2-Bil kit. I have managed to finish this Parkside LNER lowfit. The only major change I made was to use AS buffers. The replacement axlebox cover is due to these being seperate moulding and likely to fall off if you don't use enough glue

This BR pipe wagon is another parkside kit. It took ages to pluck up the enthusiasm to do the 8 door springs. Bending up little bits of metal strip is not my idea of fun. Otherwise a nice simple kit. The replacement buffers are from 51L

And now for a couple of works in progress. I've been meaning for ages to have a go at converting the Parkside LNER pattern steel open in to a BR

diagram 1/031 shock wagon. The body of these is the usual 1' shorter, with a study of photos and the drawing in BR wagons showing that I had to remove 6" (2mm in 4mm scale) from either side of the door.

The sides were cut in to sections with a razor saw and mitre box.

And then glued back together. The other side has yet to be done. I've also removed the wooden chalk board from the side as the shock wagons (or at least the one I'm modelling) didn't have these.

The second wagon is a Bachmann LNER Toad brake van. Or at least claimed to be on the box.

Basically its a BR van with shorter footboards and no end weights, having many detail feature wrong for the LNER van. Wrong axleboxes, wrong (double) brakeshoes, wrong handrails, underframe trussing, windows in the end doors, wrong lamp irons, and no fixed side lamps spring to mind. I'm slowly correcting these. I didn't anticipate this much work when I bought it.