O gauge is better for me. Rootling around in a drawer, I found some nearly right brake gear that could be modified to do the job. It's mostly Slater's bits I think with a cross shaft made from scrap tube. This has to be cut in half for the wobbly solebar compensation to work.
The W-Irons are bigger than they should be for this wagon, which throws the angles of the push rods off a bit. This is going to be a "layout wagon" I'm afraid, but to be fair, that's the sort of thing I can use.
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Just out of curiousity, how are the replacement axleguards fitted to the wooden chassis - bolts - pins - glue - or "something completely different"?
I hope this doesn't sound like a stupid question (though it probably is ...) - but I could imagine a number of BRM readers being interested in "kit rescue" / "bodging" projects like this.
After all, BRM is short for British Railway MODELLING - isn't it?
Seriously though, I suspect that a number of BRM readers and RMweb members might have some interesting motive power / rolling stock building / conversion projects on the go - even if some of them are currently "under wraps" for various reasons.
Understandably, I don't think I'd be in any position to suggest any potential methods for "drawing out" these modellers and their models.
As always, I also have no wish to "rock the boat" - so I'd have no issue if you were to decide not to add this comment ... .
In this case, superglue. Care taken in the application so as not to gum everything up.
Many thanks.
I suppose you will now be searching for a chassis and Roof to prepair the van
Richard
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