Container Traffic: A conclusion

I wasn't sure if I was going to bother putting this one up but I thought 'why not'. There are clearly plenty of people who like seeing models built rather than always bought off the shelf. This one is a leftover from my plans to have a container train originally started about 5 years ago (see this post from when I commenced the build). But plans change and I decided to give them the flick, so they are now with new owners. The wagon featured in this post was started just before I changed my mind and it ended up being put in a box part painted and forgotten about....till recently.

I decided that it wasn't going much good sitting in the box and it could be finished off and then sold to someone who will get some use out of it. So it got put through the paint shop and it has now been finished. One thing that changed in those 5 years was the type of paint used for the first coat, which was Floquil Caboose Red from memory. I paint most wagons destined to be painted VR Wagon Red with Humbrol #100 Red-Brown these days and it better represents the colour used on the real thing (the original 3 painted with Floquil paint can be seen here). I will be doing a post on paints I use for modelling later in the year perhaps.

Anyway enough of all that, you want to see the model now don't you:

I have to say, those Kadee #5 couplings look big now, as I now mainly use the #158 scale version with the wisker centering springs and snap together draft boxes. But they will do the job as intended. I left off the VR logos and coded it as a FQF.

If anyone is interested in purchasing this one from me you can leave a comment or get in touch with me via e-mail: matthewd21@hotmail.com .