- Plate from a BR standard 12T van
Here as promised is part two again in the form of a PDF covering the actual techniques. There are a range of techniques mainly for open wagons, but I intend doing something in the future about wagons and carriages when the time comes as well as Locomotives which are better cared for in the press and elsewhere, but not in the next few months! Too much to do and not enough hours!
You will notice that quite a few wagons have not received their numbers etc. - but that is still to be done and I might cover transfers etc. if anyone wants me to. I tend to do them last. The eagle -eyed will also have noticed that the hopper wagons that I am working on have at the moment no compensation - this is a deliberate act as due to Grayrigg being damaged by rainwater last year I am going through a rebuild and I want a whole train of vehicles unsprung/uncompensated to act as a test train - The reasoning being that, of course, if this will run around the layout everywhere without problems then the compensated stock will behave even smoother and at mainline speeds. Something perhaps to cover at a later date.
This PDF has been updated after a few suggestions by Noel. I might point out that the selection of mineral wagons shown may be incorrect in certain ways – quite a number of them were built using Airfix kits in the days when they were 2 /- each, so they date from long ago when I was still modelling in 00 and at school in the 1960’s they were converted to P4 not long after when I was experimenting myself to find something a bit more to scale.
In these far off days the wealth of information that is available today was not even envisaged. Most images and details were taken from personal observation of what was going around and a few photographs where wagons might just appear mainly in the back of shots. You will see from the discussion during the thread that once built I have not gone back and rebuilt the wagons mainly because there were rather a lot of them and life moves on and better kits etc. develop in time, but I have never been ruthless with anything I have built. If it can still turn a wheel that is fine by me.
The first of me discovering all these wagons were incorrect in their brake gear, was when my old friend Don Rowland published his first book on BR wagons. By that time they had been running for at least 15 years as P4 wagons and no-one had complained. They are still the same after all these years and truly historic and I am unlikely to change them now, so I apologise in advance. I have taken out the “schoolboy howler” – which literally was.
Although it may not be immediately obvious, not all the wagons are from exactly the same period, although they are all in BR livery, some numbers were also fictitious as well as such info was not so easy to find.
Noel elsewhere has been kind enough to point out any other discrepancies, so this comes with a warning that not all that you see is bang up to date, however the information was put together to show specifically painting techniques as there was nothing for people to go on in on the Forum – so plenty of caveats!
Allan
so good that you would have difficulty in telling whether you were looking at the full scale thing, or not, just going by the picture. Really brings it to life. I did not photograph mine on the layout, but a you know I spent some time watching your latest efforts at a recent show and thought they really caught the flavour of reality. There will be others I know who will only show their wagons clean and ex-works like they might be in a museum. This thread is not for them really it is for those of us who like to capture that atmosphere and look of reality. My Jackson couplings do not capture that, but they do not require the hand of God, also I am glad I do not have to hand uncouple these days, but having said that if you have them fitted it does look so much better in photographs!