Smallbrook Studio van
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Last night I assembled another wagon kit for Claverton Engineering - a Smallbrook Studios Glyn Valley Tramway box van which I bought at Shepton Mallet in February.
Here's what you get with the kit. The sides, ends, base and false roof are cast in resin, with a small piece of styrene for the top layer of the roof. The chassis is a standard Dapol wagon chassis, sold separately by Smallbrook . All the resin parts appear very well cast, with almost no flash and lots of sharp, well defined fine details.
And here's the completed wagon. Putting it together was fairly simple until I got to adding the roof, at which point I realised that despite the bottom of the wagon being square and level, the roofline at the ends was a few millimetres above the sides at diagonally opposite corners. The ends had to be carefully sanded down until they were level, trying not spoil the curved shape or remove the detail along the top edge. The piece of styrene for the roof then turned out to be fractionally too small, leaving the sides protruding from beneath it, so I had to make a replacement from my stock of plastic sheet.
Difficulties aside, I think the finished wagon looks rather nice. It will now join queue for the paint shop until I have a few more things to do together and get around to buying a can of primer.
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