Needing rolling stock for a test train, I was finally able to use a kit I got as my subscriber gift when I started regularly buying Garden Rail Magazine.
The North Pilton Works open wagon is one of a range of modular wagons, to a similar design. Laser-cut ply, and some lovely metal wheels.
Considering this kit had spent a decade or more alternately in the loft, or a cellar, it was in pretty good nick. Only a little warping, but it was so well designed a kit that once it was all together, it held in place nicely.
There was an interesting, well thought-out mechanism for the opening doors.
With packing for the move underway, I was a bit limited for paints, so sprayed acrylic with some Citadel black for the ironwork and chassis.
It looked a bit dull, so I went for a Ffestiniog-inspired (in its turn, inspired by British Rail Civil Engineers, in turn inspired by Dutch Railways...) yellow stripe. Some dry-brushed weathering, and a gloss varnish coat finished it off.
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