RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted March 20, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 20, 2021 (edited) I have been acquiring Hornby and Lima PGA hopper wagons cheap(ish) from eBay with the intention of improving them sufficiently to form a layout rake, i.e. not superdetailed but improved with metal wheels, less intrusive couplings and some weathering. The first three Hornby wagons have been attended to with home made stone loads in two. I added a Train Tech tail light to the end wagon. Cheers Darius Edited March 20, 2021 by Darius43 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted March 20, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 20, 2021 Two Lima wagons are on the bench along with some more stone loads. Cheers Darius Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted March 20, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 20, 2021 Stone ballast fixed using neat pva and wagons weathered. Cheers Darius Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted March 20, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 20, 2021 Five done. Fifteen to go... Cheers Darius 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted March 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2021 I've built quite a collection of these too, just have no layout to run them on. Although I'm sure someone will say they so they look dreadful, they're 0.5mm out in some dimension, the hopper door operating wheels have the wrong number of spokes and how you need to spend £20 per wagon on brass parts to make them "acceptable", to me, for such old models they capture the prototypes really well (and at a quarter of the price of new wagons). Removing the couplings alone from Lima wagons makes a big difference, as you would have also seen on your fertiliser vans; with the tension locks the buffers are a scale five feet apart! 1 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted March 21, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 21, 2021 A few more wagons join the rake. Cheers Darius 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted March 23, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 23, 2021 Two Lima wagons with broken buffers and other parts replaced along with new metal wheels. Hopper bodies repainted and home-made decals applied. Weathering still to be applied and stone loads still to be fitted. Cheers Darius 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted March 24, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 24, 2021 Remaining wagons converted and weathered. Now awaiting stone loads. These are made using Parkside coal loads glued to thick card, sprayed grey and covered with pva to which limestone ballast is applied. Cheers Darius 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted March 26, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 26, 2021 Fully loaded. Hang on...the postie has just delivered these:- Cheers Darius 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 (edited) They are looking good, and even just placed as they are look like a yard from the 1980s. It was common to see PGAs from different builds all mixed together, with varying degrees of dirt. and with a few ex-works examples thrown in. There are some different shades of colour here at Westbury. 37286 & 37186 have just run round a loaded train from Merehead, probably for Eastleigh, 14/9/82 cheers Edited March 26, 2021 by Rivercider Corrected caption as the wagons are clearly loaded! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Excellent work. I have a few of these myself 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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