Looking sheepish

This is what happens when you visit your local model railway supply shop intending to purchase one thing and instead walk out with a new product that has just arrived in the store:

The Ozrail Model Trains Victorian Railways L sheep wagon has been out for some time, but has only just been stocked at the local model railway shop PCB/JayCar in Bendigo. While I like to build as much rollingstock as possible, I decided to purchase two of these wagons with the round roof, as to modify a SEM one takes a little work. The models have a nice amount of weight and the detail is pretty good. I do have a couple of issues; the couplings are plastic (but have a metal Kadee spring) but I will most likely replace them with Kadee #158s, the wheels are quite shiny but again can be fixed with paint, the final one is the W irons which look a little shallow. The wheels are very fine when compared to those made by SEM, so they are designed for finescale trackwork. In addition to changing couplers and painting wheels, these two wagons will be renumbered to represent the two operational L wagons at the VGR: L1379 and L1400.

And while I was in the buying mood for some RTR stock, I decided to get this:

The Auscision Models U vans have been available for a couple of years. I already have one of these vans with advertising but I needed another to represent U931, again a preserved example at the VGR. Thus this model will be re-numbered in due course.