After my initial foray into 0 gauge with the LNER lowmac, time for the next kit. Same stable, this time it's Jim McGeowns NER birdcage brake van. To avoid boring people I won't provide much written description and let the pictures mainly speak for themselves. The only time I'll go into detail is when I deviate from the instructions provided.

The first folds.

Doors done, now to get the sides and ends on and square.

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Attaching the solebars.

So far I've had no real issues, apart from my somewhat suspect soldering, only 2 things spring to mind. After tack soldering the body together one corner did need redoing to get things square, and I had a momentary panic after I thought I had folded the solebars the wrong way (I was just trying to put them on backwards, but it took me far longer to realise that than it should). Neither great dramas, so so far so good.