As threatened below should be some photo's of O gauge wagons I've been working on, or perhaps salvaging might be a better description, oh one small thing please don't expect anything truely fine scale or accurate to the nearest thou or so!

A few years back I bought from a certain well known internet auction site a job lot of built O gauge wagons, now I knew from the photographs that they weren't that good and lets just say I was not disappointed! They were stashed away as "someday" projects, now that some day has arrived I have made a start.

The first one tackled was a very short open wagon based on a cut-down Slaters open which had seen better days being missing its axle guards and a buffer, not to mention the brake gear! Well another wagon from the " job lot" donated a buffer while the bits box provided a source for W irons, V hangers, brake block and lever. Wheels came from my small stock as did the bearings, the body work is still being tarted up with microstrip bolt heads so there will be more to come when it is completed.

P2260462 by Turin60, on Flickr

You remember the buffer donor wagon, well it's missing a body end, brake gear and all the buffers now! So I removed the balance of the distorted remains of the body, cut a section out of the chassis & floor and re-joined these two to give another short wagon that now has a 1 plank body. The brake gear was robbed from a Duncan models 2 plank wagon, buffers from stock and other bits and bobs from the bits box. It has now received a full set of microstrip bolt heads and is nearly ready for painting.

by Turin60, on Flickr

P2260460 by Turin60, on Flickr

Final item for now which might be a no hoper! It is a Triang Big Big train chassis (mineral wagon at a guess) which some one has extended. I have removed the remains of the brake gear and used some microstrip so the chassis looks more like a timber affair. I had thoughts of it becoming some sort of a double bolster wagon, but horror of horrors it sits much too high!

P2260459 by Turin60, on Flickr

P2260465 by Turin60, on Flickr

Lets see what happens

John.