Constructing a Pump Wagon

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To complement my water tank wagon I have decided to build a pump wagon. I will scratch build a 1930s Lister Stationary Engine and Pump to be able to fight lineside fires. This will be another simple wagon using LGB axles, Pasidump's (from Ebay) axle boxes and couplings. Today the basis of the wagon has been built, tomorrow I'll start on the Stationary Engine. Here are a couple of photos but as usual a more complete description is on my blog at kenefds.blogspot.co.uk.

 

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The pump wagon now has its first coat of paint, red primer to imitate red lead. Then its joined by the other flat wagon waiting for weathering to weather the wagon floors and axleboxes.

. The idea is to get some heavy staining onto the floors as it is difficult to do it later. Flat wagons tend to have 2 distinct areas of heavy staining. This is achieved by using a black shade (a semi translucent colour) then follow this up with a dark umber shade and when half dry work the finish slightly with a piece of kitchen paper.

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Next is the interesting bit as the Lister stationary engine is completely scratch built except for the flywheels. These are reclaimed from a broken diecast toy bought at Sunday's car boot sale for 5p. The engine is far from correct but it does look the part.