57. 'Inter-frigo' : first attempt at a scratch-built wagon body.
In an effort to provoke the Fates into an announcement of a ready-to-run new 'OO' wagon, instead of all these high-spec. re-releases, I have made a model of an IIB 'Inter-frigo' ferry-wagon to convey (under Rule 1) meat and fish to and from the Sussex Weald.
Unworthy of close examination - owing not least to my unsteady hand and unwanted ability to glue tiny pieces of plastic to everything except where wanted - I am content with its capturing the likeness and romance of the real thing for me. I just wish someone did decals of its singular livery.
Hacking the body off a Triang-Hornby VIX, picked up for a fiver at an exhibition, it took two attempts to build a plasticard 'box' body (the first, built around balsa blocks, looked too low).
The (erroneously shaped) roof is balsa, the door fastenings and access steps rails plastic-coated garden wire, and the ladders Ratio signal parts. Only after clearing away the remnants of this project, did I discover some lengths of finer wire for the door-fastenings. Perhaps I will try a door with these on the other side of the wagon when feeling brave.
If it can be done in 'HO', I hope someone will now release a model of this soon for us.
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