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Looks pretty good to me. Although the bowing looks obvious at first sight it's the sort of thing that tended to happen - after all its an 1870s vintage vehicle thirty years on or more

Beautiful !

Have you acquired a new camera for Christmas ? I've always enjoyed your photies but these seem a lot clearer

A great post for Christmas. Have a good one.

That is nice... and so much better than yet another container

Splendid - as usual. Do you have a load in mind ?

Look forward to seeing it trundle round Kelvinbank

Splendid. I look forward to seeing the completed version in glorious technicolour

There's an interesting photie of a ballast train at Dunblane on page 268 of the wagon book. All of the wagons have canvas covers on the axle boxes, but they look heart-shaped or shield-shaped and a touch stiffer than your photie above

The painting looks good. I've been using Tamiya myself for a while with good results

Intrigued by the ballast-plough and would be interested in a blog post

Tasty, very tasty

Now you've had a go, are you tempted to work similar magick on some others ?

Absolutely splendid. I've been away from the forum for a few months and this was just what I needed 😀

Those look very good and above all convincing, can you provide more detail on the roping and cleating, please

Looks splendid. Are you going to ruin the effect by adding the copper, it rarely seems to be visible in photies of the originals ?

Love the robotic pole planter 

Looking forward to seeing how this one turns out. Are you thinking of adding the load from the wagon book photie?

The chap in the background looks a bit shady too. Dunno what he is doing up here………

Pocket-sized lumps for Hogmanay ?

Very nicely done. I have heard it suggested that these wagons were sent around stations carrying the lime used for disinfecting cattle wagons and pens

I want you to do my track-laying and ballasting for me please 

Splendid loco and a great video to show it off.

I really do think Caley locos suit the Prussian blue far better than light sky-blue