I can't believe a month has passed since my last post. Time flies when you are having fun - or at least really busy. However, modelling has not been at a complete standstill. I have been continuing to quietly build away at my wagon kits - the odd evening of progress here and there. I am currently finishing off the second Vanwide airbrake wagon and have built the second of my blue spot fish vans for use in parcel service. The engineering fleet has also seen the construction of a 13t open wagon with corrugated ends. Small progress in 4mm scale - but enjoyable.
Workbench at the moment - more wagons for the paintshop
Another project that is progressing is a 7mm wagon kit - this time a 13t open sand wagon. I have a free afternoon today - and hope to finish off this kit. As ever it has gone together perfectly. Another little project for today is building a 4mm scale Parkside 12t pipe wagon. I plan to build about 3 of these over the coming weeks - of which two will be engineering wagons and one will be finished in bauxite. I am going to get a couple of the Bachmann 12t pipe wagons as well. By all accounts it is a fantastic model - although very expensive at around £17 - but it will be good to compare it with the Parkside kit.
A second hand model on ebay. I always feels more confident about playing around with an older/second model rather than a shiny new one.
I managed to sell a few bit and pieces on ebay recently and have picked up a couple of second hand locomotives at very reasonable prices. One of which is this lovely Heljan Western. In my opinion Heljan locomotives have the bet performance of all 00 gauge locomotives. I am planning a very faded blue version of this locomotive - which in my mind will be at the end its career shunting some engineering/goods wagons around my shunting yard. With that and my Class 37 locomotive rebuild about to start (honestly!) - I have plenty to keep me occupied. I must really get some form of layout on the go....
