More Pre-Grouping Wagons in 4mm - the D299 appreciation thread.
Having some time on my hands, I have been working my way through my stash of 4mm scale wagon kits, starting with some pre-grouping examples. As may be evident, my enthusiasm is for the Midland Railway, so first up, a couple of Midland wagons: an 8 ton high-sided wagon to D299 (left) and an 8 ton low-sided goods wagon to D305 (right).
These are both built from Slater’s kits, nice and straightforward so long as one is aware of the major pitfall with the D299: if the sides a
Looking at some of my earlier builds of Slater’s Midland wagons, I’ve reminded myself a little refinement that can be made to the axleboxes. The Ellis 10A axlebox has a front plate that is held in place by bolts that pass through lugs that project from the main casting, as shown in this extract from one of the Derby drawings available to download from the Midland Railways Study Centre’s website:
Owing to the limitations of the injection moulding process, in the Slater’s k
