Hopefully to be ready for Warley
Slightly prompted by a comment on an early post, I have completed a BR (S) utility van; which I think British Rail called NQVs.
This was made from a Parkside kit, with a chassis from Masokits. The former were so simple that you hardly need instructions but the other was less so and it was a bit of a pain to find that it came with only quite limited instructions – I wonder if I did not get the full pack as Masokits are normally fairly good?
The other things that I changed with it were to avoid the use of the really grotty buffers from Parkside and used some very good Lanarkshire Models buffers – but I have managed to break a drill bit on one, so I may be stuck with one end being unsprung. I also changed the rather poor handrails over for 0.45mm wire. I have not done the rainstrips yet, but looking at this picture I am going to have too!
So it should be to the paintshop tomorrow. Hopefully by the time I have finished it will look like the one in Paul Barlett’s photo thus: http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/srcct/h11744058#h11744058
It should be done for Warley, which is Portchullin’s next outing.
Posted on October 25, 2013, in Portchullin, Workbench (stock) and tagged 1970s, Model Railway, Portchullin, warley. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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