I've been off work, staying the week with the family up on the North Yorkshire Moors. I managed to sneak a small modelling box of bits and pieces in the car 'in case of rainy days' etc. In-between chasing real trains and trips out, I've been busy at the kitchen table.
The prototype in question is a PD&SWJR brake van, purely because I do have a soft spot for light railways and I recently acquired the Southern Railway wagons book with a drawing of it.
I've also got one of Roger Slade's CSP kits for A S Harris (the line's 0-6-0 tank) because I saw it on his stand and liked it.
So with a collection of Evergreen sheet and section, I've spent some evenings cutting, glueing, filing and assembling it to resemble the drawings as closely as I can.
I've sprung with Bill Bedford's W irons and added coupling hooks from Ambis. Brake gear is modified Cambrian off on odd sprue I had lurking about. Handrails are 0.3mm brass wire. Individual bolt/rivets are small cubes of plastic rod.
I've not fitted buffers as I didn't bring the right size drill bit and there are still lamp brackets, foot boards and a brake wheel to fit, along with a vacuum cylinder and the roof of course. Oh, and some more details, chimney, 3 links, pipes... The list goes on!
Livery is red apparently and I'm not sure how I'll do the lettering. HMRS transfers possibly.
And I've noticed the end vertical handrail stantions are not quite right. They'll have to be re-done at some point.
And there we are for the time being. Home tomorrow via the York show.
Just need a layout to run it on now!
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