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Charming, and of course sets the period very well indeed.

Very nice, Dave. The wagon looks like the Duncan Models' GWR delivery van. Another one in the proper livery on the station forecourt?

Its a pleasure to follow this blog!

 

Great observation there (a correctly tied load) and top modelling.

 

Lovely!

Thanks guys! Nice to be reminded who made the delivery van. Now I know who made it, I'm sure I can find room for a GWR livery one somewhere!

 

 

 

Dave

A lovely model yet again. I pleased to here the track work is going well. I will need to start some soon. I will be at 31.5 too, but us plain peco for the running lines.

Dave,

 

Just clicked "Follow this blog" as there is some real quality work here. The wagons are excellent and I'm sure that Henry approves :-)

 

David

Dave,

 

Just clicked "Follow this blog" as there is some real quality work here. The wagons are excellent and I'm sure that Henry approves :-)

 

David

Thanks David, I'm glad you're enjoying the blog. Not sure about Henry, he'd much rather be out annoying the squirrels! Cute looking pooch in your avatar, looks a real character!

 

Best wishes

 

Dave

A lovely model yet again. I pleased to here the track work is going well. I will need to start some soon. I will be at 31.5 too, but us plain peco for the running lines.

Hi N15, I'm very impressed with the C&L system, I found it all a bit delicate in 4mm, but the greater surface are of the 7mm chairs gives a really good bond with the plywood sleepers. I can thoroughly recommend the 31.5 gauges supplied by Debs, I ordered a pair along with some stainless steel flangeway gauges and they are very nice pieces of work. I'm planning on using Peco in the fiddle yard, but sticking to wood sleepers and glued chairs for the on view areas. i've got nothing against ready made track and if someone made some with two bolt chairs, I'd be using it!

 

Dave

Beautiful sir. With these eyes i can't wait to try 7mm.I feel a garden railway coming on.

 

Best regards

 

Eric and Gripper

Beautiful sir. With these eyes i can't wait to try 7mm.I feel a garden railway coming on.

 

Best regards

 

Eric and Gripper

Hmm garden railways, definitely on my "to do list one day!"

 

Glad you liked the wagon

 

Dave

That 1935 wagon is just a little bit too modern for you, Dave, but at least you've given it a DCI single-sided brake!

 

A D&S P8 Scorpion might be more the ticket, if you can get hold of one.

Miss Prism, on 12 May 2013 - 23:13, said:

That 1935 wagon is just a little bit too modern for you, Dave, but at least you've given it a DCI single-sided brake!

 

A D&S P8 Scorpion might be more the ticket, if you can get hold of one.

I hoped no one would notice! The single sided brake was my attempt at making it look a little more Edwardian! That Scorpion is lovely, I'll have to check out Mr P's stand at Telford this year.

 

Dave

....I expect the system will add something like "8 years later..."  but some questions:  a birthday present arrived earlier this month -  a Coopercraft, now Slater's, match truck.  Searching Google, I can't find much about them but your lovely model, described here, comes up and looks a good deal more convincing than most.  What doesn't come up are prototype examples of the particular wagon from Slater's, I can't even identify the diagram number! Atkins etc isn't much help on this but were they used in general service and if (as you've shown) they were, what sort of goods did they carry?  I guess I'm asking if they really were used as a "one plank" merchandise wagon?  The weathering on your model is about the best I've seen - there's a difference in the texture between the timber and the metal which is completely convincing but also completely beyond me at the moment - but I'm working on it!

 

Kit PW

20 minutes ago, kitpw said:

I can't even identify the diagram number!

 

L22

Hold the bus, whatever happened to this wagon? Unless it's now carrying a different load it's not one I recognise as a Sherton regular.

 

I take it from the description "Match Wagon" these were intended as runners for overhanging loads? A 20th century innovation, perhaps, as the 1 and 2 plank wagons of the 1870s, that would have been used for the purpose, became life expired? The number on Dave's model is in the right neck of the woods for that.

3 minutes ago, Barry Ten said:

Hold the bus, whatever happened to this wagon? Unless it's now carrying a different load it's not one I recognise as a Sherton regular.

 

Presumably because it's out of period?