PaulR
Western Thunderer
The van is now all-but finished. I've lettered it and given it a good wafting of satin varnish. I need to fix the roof and add the numbers onto the numberplates. The Southern Railway reversed the old pre-grouping plates and just added the new number in white. There's a queue for weathering so that won't be happening yet.
The Southern Railway only represented around 6% of the country's freight movements in the 1930s and it's said that Southern Railway stock could be rare beasts even in their own freight trains. Given all this, it's possible that I've over indulged a little with the illustration below, which shows my van flanked between a SR standard 12 ton van (an old SECR design and a Parkside Kit) and an LSWR 10 Ton van, a Dapol/Kernow RTR model which is gorgeous.
I will admit to being pleased with this scratch build and I really loved making it. It's somehow very satisfying to start with a few bits of white plastic and end up with a fully formed and functional model. I'm fired up for my next wagon project but I also have to get on with planning the new layout.
The Southern Railway only represented around 6% of the country's freight movements in the 1930s and it's said that Southern Railway stock could be rare beasts even in their own freight trains. Given all this, it's possible that I've over indulged a little with the illustration below, which shows my van flanked between a SR standard 12 ton van (an old SECR design and a Parkside Kit) and an LSWR 10 Ton van, a Dapol/Kernow RTR model which is gorgeous.
I will admit to being pleased with this scratch build and I really loved making it. It's somehow very satisfying to start with a few bits of white plastic and end up with a fully formed and functional model. I'm fired up for my next wagon project but I also have to get on with planning the new layout.