An update for you on progress with the newest stock box, which is now finished and home to most of our Welsh Highland rolling stock.
As I explained in the previous post, this box is a little wider, so each row can fit four saloon carriages.
So the top four rows are filled with the two main corridor service sets.
I'm sure there will be any number of people ready to write in and explain that they're not in the correct order, and I'm also very aware that the original set of Winson carriages have undergone radical changes from how we depict them here in the condition they first ran.
Long ago now we reached the conclusion that the best way to retain sanity while attempting to model the contemporary FR / WHR is to finish a model in the condition it first appeared, or the condition it is at the point you complete the model - and just live with it.
That's why our NGG16 87 will remain in grey. (And also because I like it like that.)
The new box is so commodious we've also got our WHHR set in there as well as my original pair of ballast wagons, scratch built long before the idea of making a resin kit for them ever occurred to me.
The Pullman car Bodysgallen is a bit of an outlier given that it's now stored out of service, but it's too nice a model not to run on the layout so we'll have to think about the best way of sneaking it into a set.
If you ever build replacements of the Winson Carrs in their current condition, you could use the original ones + Bodysgallen to make an 'orginal' WHR set, as in when the line first opened from Caenarfon-Dinas.
ReplyDeleteNice boxes. Need to do something like that.
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