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Wow, lovely. I don't know what else to say. Stunning locos.

Cheers
Paul

jwealleans wrote:Lovely. The forum always benefits from work of that quality.

Hear hear JW

The GNR Brake Van is now in paint awaiting some weathering:

Very neat indeed.

A couple of questions though: How widespread was the practice, according to date, of painting brake van handrails white? Were side riding lamp bodies ever red? I ask the latter because I instinctively painted some red but later information suggested to me that they were black.

From memory - so treat with caution - riding lamps on passenger brakes were red for a time early in the LNER period but then went either black or body colour. Brake van lamps I thought were black.

What red oxide paint have you used? It comes up very brown on my monitor. Tidy job, though.

I did wonder what colour the lamps were, on these vans they were fixed bodies if i understand it right and a lamp was put in from inside.

Not sure on the handrails either but once weathered they won't be so obvious.

The paint was a mixture of Railmatch LNER oxide and some sleeper grime i had laying around.

Will paint the lamp bodies black later tonight so thank you for the info folks.

Got a quick job on it's a Mousa Models GCR D.7 Dropside wagon

Got some work done last night:

1. Rivets punched out in the outer shell.



2. Outer shell folded and Soldered:





3. Inner shell folded and soldered alongside the outer:

Inner and outer shells soldered together:

Inner Solebars added and the outer cosmetic ones have already had the rivets punched out:



Cosmetic (outer) Solebars added and the first of the end stanchions side already folded up:



All 4 end stanchions sides added, the front faces now need to be folded up and added, this is a very long winded way of doing things and i would normally have used white metal castings:

End stachions complete and buffer bodies added:



First set of wheels and axle boxes added:



Both wheelsets now fitted:



Brakes started to be added:

All Brake gear added:



Buffers added and now in grey:

Transfers on, will need to weather it down now:

Now Weathered:



GNR Brake van also toned down:

On with the next wagon build, this time a Mousa Models GCR D.19 5 Plank coal wagon, so here is the result of the first evenings work: