Robert Shrives Posted November 14 Posted November 14 I was reading today in Rail Express of the continued use of the CPW wagon rake and was wondering on modelling a short version. The Dapol pocket KQA wagon does look much the same with a variation on the arrangement of brake gear. As a near enough -slightly better than a Rule 1 option what is your take ? I can see some UK second had ones how have you made use of the wagon, is it worth it? Looking for feedback or brick bats ! TIA Robert Quote
Mol_PMB Posted November 14 Posted November 14 Sounds like a good plan to me - there’s no other reasonable approach short of a total scratchbuild. Paint them the right colour and put appropriate containers in, of course. CPWs are much later than my interests but I do recall the lengthy saga of their introduction. I look forward to seeing the results! Mol 1 Quote
MOGUL Posted November 15 Posted November 15 I have 1 of the Dapol ones that I gave a quick respray with a can of grey paint as a test. It was convincing enough, length issue aside that I went ahead and got 3 more KQAs, transfers and the brass kit from @Weshty to convert a rake of 4 of them. But I have made no progress as yet beyond that, as all of it is currently in a box in a storage unit for a house move. The problem of course, is that for a large part of their life(when in service), they CPWs were loaded with 45ft containers which won't fit in the Dapol wagons for obvious reasons. 1 1 Quote
Robert Shrives Posted November 29 Author Posted November 29 Well Dapol are doing a new batch of KQAs. Due the length issue despite and artwork being looked at it was not a good compromise when the bar is now much higher! Of course tooling an Irish CPW is not on the cards unless somebody stumped quite a bit of the money stuff all that can be done to go scale length is the cut and shut road..But I guess the the wagons would need to be kept loaded as the lower bracing would get out of kilter with adding extra portion. Potential for the old 3D print masters and IRM spare bogie item but that is the farside of beyond of my skill set. robert Quote
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