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@Ben86 Definately 51L BRC022s, with the heavy duty riveted side plates cut off, although looking at the prototype again, I think they should be BRC023s, with the hood - I must have either not looked properly, or used what I had at the time. How are your minerals coming on?

Thanks Ben. Good question! I think they were from 51L. I'd have to look later and confirm.

Lanarkshire B026

That's the conclusion I have reached so far.

I can't remember who uploaded these orignally, but they are from an older RMWeb thread. Can anyone find VANFIT markings Pre-1963/4 i.e. on wagons without the maintenance datapanel and/or without the 'boxed' lettering?

Very rarely am I at the cutting edge of anything, but while painting the porch late this morning, the postman rang the bell. Very quick photos, so apologies for the quality. Inside the box were the instructions and three zip lock bags, one with the chassis, another with the two-part body and the third with NEM mounts and coupling hooks. Straight out of the bags and plonked together: Sadly none of the buffers survived transit despite the packaging, all heads broken off and one with damage to the shank as well. Brave pills required to drill them out and replace with some of my dwindling stocks of steel heads I think. (The Dia 1 open that I also ordered arrived with no damage). I've not been a big user of 3D prints so far, but the print quality looks good, lines only visible from some angles and fine enough I'm hoping will vanish under some primer. The floor and ends are a separate part to the sides and roof (hatchless version coming?) and didn't quite met up with the lowest plank as supplied. A warm bath and a little bit of finger pressure looks like it will get everything to line up. Everything currently having a wash down ready for a bit of prep and primer. I will probably not finish the porch today...

Hopefully they will come back with the ABS 4mm range - Formerly F.734 LNW 10T Grease Axleguard x 8. I don't know of any others currently out there. I need a couple to finish off the building of a couple of stragglers. While I had some time off over the bank holiday, I set up the cloneworks and made a mould of the remaining few I have. One axlebox isn't in great condition but we'll see how it comes out. I've been replacing the springs on a few wagons anyway. I'll cast a few rounds of copies and pick out the best. EDIT - Fresh from the mould. Bubble on one spring, but I'm cutting them off for what I need. Very difficult to photograph cream resin!

F.293 GWR d.C20/1 "Rectank" Bogie Well or d.J.20/1 "Bogie Bolster A" [SpW] F.484 NER ex WD 'Rectank' Bogie Well Wagon [h4] or 'Bolrecs' Bogie Bolster [SpW] F.497 LNE Diamond Frame Bogie - Pair [SpW]

The only paints I've found Mr Muscle didn't shift completely have been some old enamels - black and silver. I don't know what was different about them, but I've had a few second hand wagons from different sources painted with either colour and it really was tough stuff to remove.

There was the ABS whitemetal Rectank - it may come back through Modelstock in due time, but it could be a wait before the range becomes available.

I have modeller's PTSD from trying to make umpteen identical little rings to go on a BR 1/112 mineral (the cupboard door MoS 'French' wagons) which has them everywhere. I think I got halfway and then back into the maturing cupboard it went. That was winding a fine brass wire around a drill bit and then cuttting them off, shaping to try to leave a bit of a 'pin' at the back to mount in a drilled hole, rather than just gluing to the surface. I mentioned as I'd missed them entirely, having got some paint on my D4 before LNWR Wagons Vol1 came through the post, highlighting what I'd not seen on photos online. "Fiddlesticks" I might have said, or words to that effect. They are still on the 'to do' list. I think the little details like the rings do make a difference and it's always nice to push kits a little further, especially with reference material to hand.

43062 & 43013 again, passing through Burton-on-Trent in the morning sunshine. 1Q22 0644 Derby R.T.C.(Network Rail) to Stockport

Will you be adding the tie down rings to the headstocks?.. I have a D4 to finish, but all of the buffer shanks were hopelessly damaged. I'm hoping ModelStock, who have taken over the 4mm ABS range will have the 3-bolt LNWR buffers available at some point. Unless there is another source currently available in 4mm?

The M360xxx series was a bit of a catch-all for ex-MoS 5 planks, SR type brake vans and others. I can't find a (Larkin?) book that lists them out at the moment. Edit - It's in Acquired Wagons Vol1, which has a table of numbers and previous owners. "Certain wagons from private companies and others from government bodies other than the Ministry of Transport were not in the original 'pooled' fleet and did not receieved (sic) 'P'-prefixed numbers. Instead they received numbers in the M360xxx range"

Youtube normally gets a bit prissy about nudity in videos (or is supposed to, at least), but these videos haven't been picked up by the AI bots. Don't want anyone to get a clip round the ear when the video cuts to a wall covered in topless models. "Research" might not be a good excuse...