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This is Halfords 'Rover Brooklands Green'. Terrible paint job on an old battery case but it gives some idea of the colour. Under indoor lighting it looks darker and colder.

I like the HMRS transfers but they don't have everything. Fox Transfers fill some of the gaps.

Hope this isn't straying too far off topic but sometimes the little byways are interesting.

Traction engines being transported from Ransomes' :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/imt_image_archive/24206337434/in/album-72157663756160010/

Another load, they look like horse wagons on railway wagons:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/imt_image_archive/24716658692/in/album-72157663756160010/

All on the Great Eastern at Ipswich

 

One area that requires further research is the use of Archer's rivets - I have no idea what the best size for wagon bodies might be. 

I got some Archers rivets a while back when I was building locomotives, I got sheet AR88001 which is a general purpose set. They are nice but I think they are a bit small as a representation of the mighty fastenings the Victorians used. Mostly I have used the largest on the sheet, 0.36mm, the others are tiny.

The Ipswich Maritime Trust have put some interesting pictures of the docks in this archive, including quite a lot of railway content:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/imt_image_archive/albums

Like this - https://www.flickr.com/photos/imt_image_archive/24228993273/in/album-72157664185274902/

I came across these beautiful colour photos taken in Brighton in 1906. They might provide some inspiration -

http://mashable.com/2016/07/03/otto-pfenninger-early-color-photography/#UPFX6xyZikqt

Now you've got me thinking. I've been building SECR stock but this 1908 map of the lines out of London Bridge shows the SECR and LBSCR running alongside each other. There is also the East London line which would have included Great Eastern goods traffic. All sorts of possibilities here. Perhaps my next loco will be yellow?

source: Wikipedia http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bricklayers_Arms_%26_New_Cross,_Midhurst_RJD_91.jpg

I'm modelling one of Brighton's neighbours but this is a very interesting read. Will future issues be openly available or is this for members?

Similar wagons on the far right of the photo in this post:

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/81756-new-train-sets-and-gift-packs/page-4&do=findComment&comment=1339355

Slightly tangental to this but possibly of interest; my grandfather joined the Artists' Rifles around 1915 and was posted to Egypt and then Palestine. He took quite a few photos, this one has 'Cairo train" written on the back of it. I assume that ESR on the wagons means Egyptian State Railways.

( EDIT to add - I hadn't really looked very closely at this photo before. It seems to me that they are simple 3-plank open wagons with a wooden superstructure bodged on. Also, I can't see very much by way of brakes on them! )