Hello all,

I cannot work on the baseboards for the railway at night because my son, who is 10 months old, needs his sleep! So I have time in the evenings to get involved with kit building.

I am relatively new to kit building and so far I have put together plastic kits from Slaters, Ratio, Parkside Dundas, Cambrian and Chivers kits. I will eventually progress to metal kits and eventually when I am more confident in my modelling and soldering skills move onto building my own loco!

My first attempt was Slaters Coke Vans. I have made eight of them in MR and LMS liveries and had a bash at weathering. Here are the results:

I then moved onto some Slaters MR box vans which I could not bring to weather!

I then made 3 Fish vans:

I started making ratio engineer wagons (transfers on some are wrong position):

Recently I have made CCT vans, Tube Wagons and am finishing a low wagon

I have found that there is lots to learn. I always trouble with the brakes and whether the wagons should be fitted or not and with liveries. Can anyone recommend a decent book explaining 1930s LMS wagons?

I have more kits to build including some buildings. I'll keep you posted!

Regards

Soney