Today's update is to show you where I've got to with the interior for the Pickering brake.
As carriages go this is a very simple one with only three compartments and basic bench seats.
The real ones - as you may know - are made up of horizonal slats, but I'm not motivated enough to try to recreate that when you won't have a hope of seeing them inside.
Same goes for the vertical boards on the compartment walls - I'll be quite content with plain panels as long as they're the correct shade.
What I am going to be fussy about is getting the lamp pots to look right, and in the background of the picture you'll see a tiny styrene box filled with RTV rubber.
Under there is my third prototype!
Having seen the pictures of the carriage being delivered to Gelert's Farm it's obvious that I need more of a stacking rings effect, so this latest effort uses a smaller diameter tube for the very top section.
Once the rubber is cured I can cast a few and see whether I've cracked it at last?
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