Both AY ballast wagons have now had attention from the airbrush and the transfer sheet.
We were oh so nearly caught out by the lettering on the wagons. Forgetting for a moment that this is the FR / WHR we were dealing with we just assumed that they'd be the same on both sides. Well you would, wouldn't you?
Just in the nick of time we discovered they have the letters SAR on one side but SAS on the other.
I was a little confused as to why until I realised, of course, that it's bi-lingual. One side in English the other in Afrikaans.
(South African Railways / Suid Afrikaanse Spoorwee)
The false loads are certainly generous but not untypical of how they were often snapped while at work on the rebuilding project.
Nearly all our models are finished in ex-works condition and these will be the first of our models to get some serious weathering.
That's why there are little piles of loose ballast on the platforms at either end of the wagons, it seems some always spills during loading or falls off while on the move.
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