A little corker of a model, Rich!

Lovely!!

That looks great Rich.

Now that's Dedication Rich, very impressive and I know I wouldn't be able to complete that!! But you have gone the extra mile..

Tom

Cracking work. I have a timber yard to build at some point, what wood did you use?

Nice work Rich.

You're not going to like me for showing you these. I'm building some of the laser-cut timber loads to go into an open wagon, and they are very nice products (my first experience of laser-cutting as a modelling technique).

Andy

@ All: Thanks for the positive comments.

@ Donw: This wagon doesn't have any couplings yet, although there are hooks as part of the original mouldings. I've to decide whether to try and cross drill them or cut them off and replace with etched ones.

@ Kylestrom: The shackles are from an N Brass Locos fret of container securing chains.

@ devondynosoar118: I have a couple of sheets of this thin wood that my late father in law gave me a few years ago. It's about 0.5mm thick. I would expect that you would find similar in a model shop catering for aeroplane modellers.

@ Andy: I won't dislike you. Cutting the parts out was trivial in comparison to fixing them. I made a jig so that I could accurately and consistently cut the width I needed to have. I could cut several hundred pieces of wood 40mm long and 1mm wide in an hour with the jig. The parts on the link look nice and don't appear to have the burnt edge that I've encountered on every laser cut part I've seen. The photos are quite small though so it may just be that they are not visible. I may well do some sheeted timber loads in open wagons in the future. There'll be far fewer pieces in them though and I'll probably do them the same way.