I finally finished off the rake of 5 scratch-built wagons that were built by prominent modeller Andy Elliot who built a number of models for Foster Yeoman before he sadly died five years ago. I obtained these last year from Gridwatcher who was a mate of Andy's.
Andy constructed the wagons in styrene sheet and they are surprisingly detailed. I've done them as a rake of 2 outer wagons and 3 inner wagons:
There was a actually quite a lot to do in the end:
- Creating mounting points for the bogies and fitting my 3D printed LTF-25 bogies
- Fitting lead weight
- Fitting kadees as inner couplings at prototype height
- Adding buffers to outers from Skits
- Fitting kadees as outer couplings at normal kadee operating height
- Painting - lots of coats of Phoenix enamels!
- Transfers - from Fox and using my own home-printed data panels
- Varnishing - good old Klear
They still need weathering and one or two extra details adding such as the distinctive coupling bars. Here are a couple of shots of the individual wagons:
Outer wagon: 17918
Inner wagon: 19890
Just to show how much had to be done, here is a pic from Gridwatcher showing the state of them when I got them from him:
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