Needing a passenger vehicle, and something quite large at that, as a test train, I turned to a favoured prototype.
During the Plague Years, we had a ride in this carriage on the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway, Porthmadog. At the time I was tempted to laser-cut one of my own, but in the end I purchased this kit (from the WHHR shop, on a later visit).
Nice multi-media kit.
Little bit fragile in places, but easy to mend.
Some lovely, good quality bits, like the bench.
Contrary to the instructions, some very nice white-metal castings to replace the laser-cut wooden parts.
Ready for painting; having constructed the coach mainly during my lunch breaks, and before shifts at work, I ended up painting it in Wales.
Bit limited in the choices of paint; it was Autumn when we were there, and naturally B&M had stripped out the spray paints in favour of more Halloween tat. Luckily I had the dregs of a can of black paint to prime it, then hand-painted the rest with tester pots.
A bit of an experiment with the roof, loo-roll soaked in watered-down PVA.
A bit more modification to the kit, to portray open windows.
An attempt at my usual weathering technique, washes of Nuln Oil and watered-down acrylics, but the material drank it up. But then maybe it would make more sense for a carriage like this to be kept sparkling.
Photographed out in the garden at my parents house, as we still lack a garden railway... Still, as I type this, the plan is to shortly crack-on with it, weather depending...
...aaaaaand published.
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