Northern Fine Scale Gauge One Wagons

[mmts]

Treated myself to some British rolling stock and have been busy building and painting em
So this is what you get

and inside the box theres.......

 

[mmts]

Body made up and painted just the strapping to detail

and a 5 plank with the wheels

and then the brake gear added

Just leaves the decals to add but waiting for the postman to deliver the varnish

 

[yb281]

Gauge 1 eh mate? That runs on 45mm track doesn't it?

 

[peterbunce]

Hi MMTS,

Those wagons will be quite large and as such should be much more complete that the small stuff (OO). There ought to be copies of the external strapping inside, which acted as keeping all together without cutting into the wood. An easy method is to use black plasticard to make it, I think that 30 thou will look OK, but 'in scale' it MAY be a bit thin.but will be easier to works with.

Each side of the doors is the most difficult as the knees were tapered from the bottom to the top, with the intention that the wagon wouil;d be assisted to stay straigh - it failed in that as loads of coal, or minerals, dumped in them over time made the top edges of wagons belly outwards!

If you run a new knife blade down to outer edges of the strapping that will provide a 'stop' for the black paint and could help to give you straight lines.

They look very bare without it.

However they look good and Thanks for the photos. Are the transfers waterslide or theose tererrible rub down variety? I cheat with those and put them onto clear transfer film, and then treat them as waterslides.

 

[Steve]

That looks very good Edward

 

[mmts]

And for comparison the real size one (5 plank version )

and possibly the next project

 

[Gizzy]

Very nice;
they should look great with your G1 Class 08 shunter....

 

[mmts]

Been playing with some cat litter and pva glue to make some loads
Pix shortly

 

[Philbahn]

Looks good Ed.

Have you thought about the cat ltter carefully
What about the cat/s??????????

 

[mmts]

Looks good Ed.

Have you thought about the cat ltter carefully
What about the cat/s??????????

Its ok Phil.......... its a brand new bag and been nowhere near the wrong end of a cat