CPW wagons

[Robert Shrives]

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 

 

      

[Mol_PMB]

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

[MOGUL]

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.