Excellent. As Miss P says, the brake gear does make a difference.

And a colour not too far from Caledonian wagons, so it won’t feel too isolated.

Only six unbuilt kits is pretty good going! 
 

The blocks and pushrods are from the kit  thinned at the rear, the hanger, safety loops, and lever are 51 L bits. 

There are several in a LNWR official c. 1899 of a Class A 3-cylinder compound 0-8-0 standing half-way up Shap, about to get its 40-wagon train under way.

What era would these be suitable for? Would many still be around in the 1960's?

They were built in 1902, I think a fairly small number compared to the later 5 plank wagons.

A bit out of my field, the GWR wagon experts would be able to say if any were still in use that late but I'd doubt it. 

Interesting that you've gone to the logical extreme of red wheels. Buffers, I'm more doubtful of.

19 hours ago, Richard_A said:

What era would these be suitable for? Would many still be around in the 1960's?

I'm pretty confident the answer to that is none.

The Great Western kept its wagons going longer than some - perhaps the iron frames helped - in the first few years of the 20th century fitting oil axleboxes to wagons originally built with grease axleboxes, and then in the late twenties fitting an additional brake on the no-brake side - diagram O21. Rapido, for their RTR model, managed to find a BR-liveried prototype but I strongly suspect that was a last-gasp rarity. There was a major cull of remaining pre-grouping wagons in 1958 but 19th century ones had generally gone well before that. Even the youngest to this design would have been over 45 years old at nationalisation. The example restored by the 813 Fund was rescued from Sharpness Docks where it had lain since the 1930s.

4 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

I'm pretty confident the answer to that is none.

 

The Great Western kept its wagons going longer than some - perhaps the iron frames helped - in the first few years of the 20th century fitting oil axleboxes to wagons originally built with grease axleboxes, and then in the late twenties fitting an additional brake on the no-brake side - diagram O21. Rapido, for their RTR model, managed to find a BR-liveried prototype but I strongly suspect that was a last-gasp rarity. There was a major cull of remaining pre-grouping wagons in 1958 but 19th century ones had generally gone well before that. Even the youngest to this design would have been over 45 years old at nationalisation. The example restored by the 813 Fund was rescued from Sharpness Docks where it had lain since the 1930s.

Thank you, I see the kits for sale and wondered if it was worth getting some to add variety to my wagon fleet, I might not bother now.