As you may, or may not know my layout has a canal / coal interchange siding loading coal from canal boat to the railway. When deciding a company to undertake this I spotted at work some Parkend Navigation Collieries wagons (which were bought by a customer before I'd managed to buy them) so since then I've been buying them up on e-bay, one came with weathered frames which kind of forced my hand with weathering, but then again, saying ''forest of dean'' and a running number of 330 wouldn't really work for a layout set in the peak district.

all Parkend wagons are Peco (out of production and e-bay's supply has dried up)

there are two exceptions, the 7 plank (the Parkends are 7 plank) at the right hand end in the photo is a Penistone gas company wagon (Dapol) which has gotten slightly lost, bought as it's where I went to school.

The other exception is a 5 plank 2mm society kit from when I was looking into building in 2mm which has been roughly hand lettered with 'Parkend' - my aim is for it to look as though the company has bought a 5 plank wagon and to avoid it getting lost into a wagon pool has sent someone into the yard with a pot of paint.

Does it look right or does it look like someone has tried to letter a wagon badly?