Well, December got a bit hectic, I didn't get much modelling done.
However, progress is being made:
The lettering on this wagon was much more of a challenge than the Cannop wagon, but from a distance it looks ok, I think. Close up it is a bit of a mess, but I hope that weathering will make it less obvious.
The tiny curly lettering unfortunately spells "Empty to/ Uorgreens Colliery/ Forest of Dean" on one side, as the tinyness and the curlyness made it rather har
Look at that, two posts less than a year apart!
The crane is now very very nearly finished. As I hope you can see, I've added the jib retaining chain and fashioned a hook for it with a piece of guitar string a and a tiny scrap of plasticard. The chain is not quite as long as I would have hoped, but not so short as to cause problems running (as far as I can tell using the three bashed up pieces of old Lima track I have at hand). I managed to damage the match truck's S&W coupling,
