A couple of ballast wagons

[West_riding]

Fun little weathering project for the weekend- a Hornby MHA 'Coalfish' wagon and a Bachmann PNA wagon. The PNA had a little factory weathering, but not enough for my tastes and both had very unrealistic interiors (see before photo). The interiors have been painted in shades of rust as these soon lost their paint in service, the underframe have been weathered and the body sides had a wash to leave grime in the corners. These wagons look very rough today, but as I model the early 2000s, I wanted mine to still look fairly new. Finally added a load of ballast to the MHA, the real wagons are filled by JCB and often have two piles of ballast rather than a level load where to scoops have been dumped so I tried to copy that. The PNA has a load of used ballast spoil, old rails and oil drums where the permanent way team have dumped their rubbish. Very pleased with how this pair have come out.