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First of five…

 

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Wonderful kit - goes together in about 30 minutes including parts clean up.

 

With thanks to Provincial Wagons/Leslie.

 

Cheers

 

Darius

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Great photos - thanks for posting 😀

 

I’ve even got some model sugar beets with which to load the wagons.

 

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Strictly speaking they’re HO rather than OO but hopefully no one will mind…

 

Cheers

 

Darius

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How I did the beet loads.

 

Load support “tables” made from 2mm thick card and glued together using pva.


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Tabletops painted black (to stop any light card colour showing through) and tables dropped into the wagon.

 

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Neat pva applied to the tabletops and beets spooned on - pressing them in gently with fingertips.

 

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Beets secured in place using diluted pva - sort of ballasting with beets.

 

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Loaded wagons join the rake.

 

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Cheers

 

Darius

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6 hours ago, Darius43 said:

How I did the beet loads.

 

Load support “tables” made from 2mm thick card and glued together using pva.


IMG_8484.jpeg.03b0b9a7100d212e6056fe3d40204246.jpeg

 

IMG_8485.jpeg.a6c823fbc60aa3b2ae139137c32f211c.jpeg

 

Tabletops painted black (to stop any light card colour showing through) and tables dropped into the wagon.

 

IMG_8487.jpeg.c9c5e5c19f28531293b43f398a4e8a94.jpeg

 

IMG_8488.jpeg.dbc87d8dce4046375e1442b3156b65d3.jpeg

 

Neat pva applied to the tabletops and beets spooned on - pressing them in gently with fingertips.

 

IMG_8489.jpeg.2317a3ced82e2032145926b4260b09c0.jpeg

 

IMG_8490.jpeg.b9fddbd714240337d9b37506db462581.jpeg


Beets secured in place using diluted pva - sort of ballasting with beets.

 

IMG_8491.jpeg.376a29375e030d18406c3cffc41fee28.jpeg

 

IMG_8492.jpeg.22b63a0ba0fb68584e54e081c50a2fc5.jpeg

 

Loaded wagons join the rake.

 

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Cheers

 

Darius

Did they really load them that high - right up to the top of the wagon, and unsheeted? 

 

Thing about sugar beets is that they can bounce out and a flying sugar beet is like a cannonball!  We had problems with them here in the East of England with overloaded lorries and trailers being hauled at speed by tractors on poorly maintained fenland roads until the police started clamping down on insecure loads.  You could find them spilled on the roads.

 

Attractive wagons though.

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