Over the past couple of weeks I managed to finished another 12t planked van for the goods train. This is the fourth 12t van I have finished, with 3 slaters wagons built and painted, including a Vanwide and a weathered Dapol 12t van with plywood sides. The Slaters kit was built as per the instructions and went together pretty easily. The paint was applied using Railmatch enamels via the airbrush, although I did a little hand brushing in an attempt to bring out some rust patches, especially on the wagon ends. The transfers are from Railtec.
So another wagon has entered service for the layout. The four 12t vans were the minimum I wanted for a small rake of wagons, which were used for propelling fertiliser traffic along the branch line. So finally I have finished the first rake ready to use on the layout. I am looking forward to giving them all a test run and to do some shunting moves with these in the small sidings. The layout is planned to have a number of fixed rakes, with the 12t wagons for the fertiliser train the first one. The second rake will be somewhere between 4-6 milk tankers for the dairy and a healthy array of parcels stock is being built/detailed, including 2 SPVS and some CCTs, alongside a number of engineers wagons that I am slowly getting around to building.
So further modelling tasks for the coming weeks are to finish the herring wagon, which is awaiting transfers, alongside progressing with the main dairy buildings for the layout. The class 33 paint job is finished, but the locomotive needs to have the DCC sound decoder/speaker wired in, a driver to be added and then to be reassembled. The layout needs to be put up but I just cannot find the time at the moment to make it worthwhile. Hopefully later in August or September I will be able to get a run of a few days where I can really attack the layout detailing. However, until then, I will push on with finishing off these other projects and getting ready for when the layout is finally put up.
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