Wagon kits for 1960s and 1970s

[west_clare_wanderer]

Hi all.

I've accumulated a nice selection of stock now (with hopefully some more items to arrive soon), basically all from the IRM stable. 

However, I'd like to supplement these with some kit built stock and would like some recommendations for kits for other opens, vans, or other types of wagons. I wan to add some variety.

My chosen time period is mainly early Supertrain era, but I'd also like to have some stock to model the mid/later 1960s too. 

What should I be looking out for to supplement my corrugated opens and H vans to add some variety? And whose kits would you recommend?

I'm thinking that variety will be much easier to achieve in the 1960s compared to 1970s. Maybe some wooden open wagons and some earlier types of vans. 

Any suggestions gratefully received.  

Thanks as always for your help. 

Dave 

[Mol_PMB]

Quite a lot of kits have been made in the past but are no longer available, including John's JM design wagons and most of Leslie's Provincial wagons range.

Leslie may still have a few resin kits in stock:

KITS Available – Provincial Wagons

 

Enda's Past-Avenue / CK Prints includes some interesting wagons and hopefully more to come, some of which have their origins in John's or Leslie's designs.

ckprints.ie

 

Pre-Grouping Railways a couple of nice GNR(I) wooden opens; the 6-plank one can also be gently modified to MGWR or GSR types:

Irish Railways – Pre-Grouping Railways

https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/17455-voiding-the-warranty-mols-experiments-in-21mm-gauge/page/4/#findComment-262452

Bitumen tanks got everywhere in small quantities and there are several options to modify them from RTR

 

For the later period, almost everything was based on a standard 20' chassis (though these weren't all identical - there are variants of brakes, W irons etc).

Originally the idea was to build around a thousand 20' flats and a whole load of different types of containers / swapbodies to fit on them, each suited to different traffics. In time, this evolved and many of the flat wagons were permanently fitted with bodies to suit a particular traffic. And more wagons with dedicated body types (especially for bulk minerals) were built. 

IRM have modelled some of these, and Enda has produced some of the flat wagons as 3D prints, which could be used as the basis of scratchbuilt bodies.

 

That should be enough to fill your stash for a bit!