Nice to see you back in action, cracking weathering as per usual

Great weathering! Shows what you can achieve with washes and powders - did you bother to seal it with dullcote or anything?

Thanks gents! I actually picked up some more couplings today so the rest of my steel wagons are now converted to Dapol knuckles. So maybe my mojo is back!

I haven't sealed it no - I don't think any of my models have been varnished. I sometimes use neat White spirit as a fixative for powders, another tip nicked from the military modelling fraternity!

I have some of these wagons myself and am planning on loading them with 10 coils, rather than the 8 supplied. I'm looking at some way of having all the coils attached as one so I can load/unload them as a unit as required. I also intend to paint the coils a steel colour to get rid of the silver colour. I will weather them as and when I have experimented on some old stock.

Look forward to seeing the layout as you build it.

Robbo - I did contact Bachmann to see if the coils were available as spares, but unfortunately not.

What I plan on doing is having 8 SPAs, 6 for coil traffic and 2 for speeklink traffic. This way I get enough coils to do 10 coils per wagon for 6 wagons. I could use the SPAs for trainloads of steel plate, or any number to suit my requirements.