Wild Swan Books
The 4mm Wagon Part Two
General Merchandise Vans, Special Purpose Vans & Tank WagonsGeoff Kent
Softback - 162 pages - £14.95
Contents- General Merchandise Vans
- GER 10-Ton Van
- SR 10-Ton Van
- BR 10-Ton Van
- LMS Plywood Van
- Special Purpose Vans
- Cattle Vans
- Gunpowder Vans
- Pallet Vans
- Vans for Perishable Traffic
- Tank Wagons
- 35-Ton GLW Tank Wagon
- Scratchbuilding Tank Wagons
- The RCH 1927 Design
- Pre-1927 Vehicles
- Anchor Mounted Tanks
This book is the second of a three-part series in which the author outlines the construction of a selection of kits more or less as the manufacturers intended, covering as wide a field of materials as possible. He also seeks to assist those who are looking to broaden the scope of their wagon fleet by suggesting ways in which some of those same kits can be modified by judicious butchery and modest scratch building, and, taking things a stage further, guides the reader through more extensive scratch building to produce types of vehicle which are so far poorly represented in either kit or ready-to-run form.
His aim over the three-part work was to produce a representative range of wagon types such as might be seen in the average pick-up goods. Wagons to be considered will all have been built in the period 1900-1960, and mostly post-1923, since this fits in with Geoff's own chosen modelling period of the mid-to-late fifties.
Part One of "The 4mm Wagon" series covers open, mineral and hopper wagons, together with the basic techniques of building 4mm wagons from kits and from scratch. Part Three deals with conflats & containers, wagons for long loads & steel, brake vans and the finishing touches to wagon models.
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