Another Way and Works van

The lack of decent TV in the evenings is proving a bonus for getting things done in the workshop (nothing got touched during the day over the weekend while watching the Supercars race in Adelaide on TV however). This is another wagon that was part built, then left for a couple of years to gather dust. So with the aim of clearing this backlog it has come forward in the queue and is almost ready for some paint:

This is a HD wagon built using a Steam Era Models standard I wagon kit with the doors removed and a VR Casts HD conversion kit added along with Steam Era handbrake and buffers as well as some Model Etch ladders chopped up to make some side steps. The long couplings are spares that came with my Auscision N-set and will be replaced with the proper Kadee equivalent when the wagon enters service. I have modelled this wagon on HD193 which is preserved by the Victorian Golfields Railway and it will be lettered with the stencil it carries over from when it was used to transport way and works items between Jolimont and the workshops at North Ballarat and Bendigo:

Meanwhile I have finished the second set of sides/ends for those 3 L wagons so that leaves one more to go.