53 minutes ago, iak said:

The author of the article would be pleased to hear that you have used it. Sadly, he is no longer with us but he knew a thing or two about wagon construction.

Mr Goodwin wrote other articles as well around that time that you might find it interesting.

Hi,

yes, Dave Goodwin was a frequent contributor to RM, wasn't he? And other periodicals, too, I imagine. I recall being extremely taken with his article on detailing Mainline's 57xx.

This particular article has always interested me - it's been in my clippings file for many moons now - so I'm quite pleased to have finally have made something from it.

All the best,

Mark

Given the discussions elsewhere on the Forum regarding internal ironwork - side knees and washer plates - that ought to be visible on open wagons, I begin to feel the need to revisit this model.

Being a drop-side it wouldn't, presumably, have had side knees, there would/should be internal washer plates for the external end pillars and door hinge straps. So I need to decide whether to take the easy way out and just give it a full load of ballast, or spend a little bit of time adding the ironwork.....

Hi Mark, coming late to this after holidays. What a transformation! Gone is the slightly dull original MR wagon and we get this interesting beast instead! The pivotted lever is a very nice extra touch, thanks for the tip, I might try that out.