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Next step towards getting the stock ready for the new layout means I have been working on a few wagons.

 

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First up are a couple of open wagons built from Cooper Craft kits, one of which has a sheet fitted.

 

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Covered vans are again from Cooper Craft kits, slightly weathered.

 

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Private owners are Slaters kits, loaded will real Welsh Steam Coal (as used in my 7 1/4" gauge loco). The Wilmer Swindon wagon has been hand painted.

 

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The cattle wagon is another Cooper Craft kit, modelled in the days when the inside of the wagaons were lime washed.

 

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Lastly a couple of brown vehicles. The horse box is the new Hornby item, a little late for the period I am modelling but such a lovely model. The fruit van is built from a Falcon Brass etched kit. All the wagons have yet to have the Sprat and Winkle couplings fitted (3mm scale version)

 

Next up will be some brake vans, a loco coal wagon and something from the other companies of the big 4.

 

I hope you find this of interest and I'll keep you posted with updates.

 

Paul

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That fruit van has real character, very nice. The handpainted "Wilmer" wagon is impressive. Are the letters handpainted too, or transfers?

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Good work there. I am finding your posts of interest.

 

There is/has been a reasonably comprehesive partwork on GWR horseboxes in GWRJ recently and many are not as modern as you think. The model looks like an N16. The roundel 'lettering' came in in '34 so it could be fairly new in service for your time period.

 

What I believe is out of period is lime washed cattle wagons. The lime wash was found to cause damage to the feet of the cattle and its use was discontinued in the 1920s.

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That fruit van has real character, very nice. The handpainted "Wilmer" wagon is impressive. Are the letters handpainted too, or transfers?

 

The Wilmer wagon is fully handpainted, right down to the load and tare weights. It was taken from a black and white picture so I think the body colour may in fact be wrong having seen a model at the Pendon Museum recently of the same wagon. Still I'm not a rivet counter and I like it.

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