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TL;DR JHB doesn't like plastic

Lovely stuff JB - 9'6" wheelbase or shorter maybe? (I thought I'd give Josefstadt the night off.... )

On cheap models, the chassis is a plastic colour and the various codes (brake test etc.) and running numbers are tampo printed on. It's no longer recommended to do it this way as the printing will come off over time. The right way (the way IRM are doing it) is to paint the body and chassis, and then print the decals, even if the paint is the same colour as the plastic, seal it, then assemble. You could see how the cost would climb to make each part, paint it, let it dry, and only then assemble the separately painted body and chassis. It triples the workload involved, and the resulting price. It's just down to cost. R.

No danger, as long as you clean it as soon as you're finished. I had Halfords that was runny once, and no amount of techniques made it work. Awful cheap rubbish. I use this stuff - http://shop.thearmypainter.com/products.php?ProductGroupId=15 - available from Gamersworld on Jervis Street, and it's excellent, even on brass.

+1 Superb stuff Dave, truly superb.

Close up of the headboards.

+1

All this, and not a word about who, or what the actual Higgs wagon is about! In all seriousness Dave, how long did it take to assemble all of that? It can't all have been Fleabay?

All copyright me - not sure about the first one though.

Tidy work, love it R.

I got plenty up close photos when they were parked in storage on the raised line under the crane not so long ago. I'll post them up later, if I can locate them

Given JHB's recent thread, and I was dusting off the auld Party Rosette for tomorrow, I thought I'd bump a near 3 old one to go with it. Enjoy.

Aha!!! Case closed gents, thanks for the input - the additional wagons take so much from their continental cousins in terms of the eliptical ends and the side bracing. Just wondering why they didn't give them the same pattern wagon since it was only a short time between orders?? Another modelling oddity presents itself.... Now, is it me or are the bogies an olive green, and the skirt a CIE green, or am I losing it? R

from looking at historical catalogues of fauvet girel stock, it appears to be a french wagon on irish bogies. captiom may be incorrect

Here are the few photos i have of the "odd" ammonia wagon, with additional bracing over the bogie centres, elliptical ends, rather than cylindrical on the tanks, and skirt completely absent. Can anyone shed any light on it? R

For some reason I think that this is the approved livery rather than the trial vehicle. I have photos which show a vehicle with a different underframe altogether, supports to the tank etc. which I wondered was a UK/continental version on irish bogies, which I think was the trial wagon. I'll post up the image later, see if it tickles a few heads.

No, the photo is pretty good. Threw it into AutoCAD, scaled it up, and it all works out. Up close they look seriously out of scale with the wagon mind....

Just checked my survey notebook against the photo. the buffer casing is 450mm long and the buffer itself is another 150mm beyond that, or 2 feet in old money. It's quite standard for the 14' wheelbase /22' flat wagons.

Taken in Inchicore, Dublin Dave, the main works depot in Ireland. One of the sidings to the rear of the complex that is inaccessible but to the lucky few!