Showing posts with label SR Van. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SR Van. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Ratio SR van finished

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  It's not special. Not a stand-out supermodel. This is exactly what I wanted - a very run-of-the-mill "layout wagon". I used ...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Painted van

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  Now the cat has wandered off , I get a precious morsel of modelling time to whack some paint on the van. As this is a traditional build, I...
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Friday, November 14, 2025

Painting delay

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  Just paint for the SR van then. Slight snag, for the last few days, Stampy has decided that my modelling board is the perfect place for a ...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Chassis upgrades

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  It's no good. Those wobbly  stretcher bars are annoying me. As has been said in the comments, you can't really repair them.  At th...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Sprat & Winkle couplings

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  I'm going full Old Skool on this wagon. That means Mk1 Sprat & Winkle couplings, the ones I use on all my exhibition layouts. In m...
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Monday, November 10, 2025

Very liquid glue

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  Bodybuilding time. A job that it turns out would have been a lot easier if I'd remembered to bring some Revell Contacta plastic cement...
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Thursday, November 06, 2025

Wheels in

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  An odd feature of the Ratio kit is that the solebars don't fit under the floor, as they do in every other wagon kit I can recall; the ...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2025

Bearing up

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  It's a long while since I built a plastic wagon kit, and I need to remember how to do jobs that used to come naturally.  First up, fit...
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Monday, November 03, 2025

SR 12 Ton Box Van kit

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  While I might own many hundreds of projects, finding something suitable to build as a demonstration isn't easy. Whatever I pick has to...
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