Wild Swan Books
The 4mm Wagon Part Three
Conflats & Containers, Wagons for Long Loads & Steel, Brake Vans and Finishing TouchesGeoff Kent
Softback - 160 pages - £16.95
Contents- Conflats & Containers
- Three-box Coal Wagons
- LNER Conflats
- GWR/BR Conflats
- Southern Railway Conflats
- Conflat L
- Suspension Systems
- Wagons for Long Loads & Steel
- From Long Low to Plate Wagon
- Bolster Wagons
- Single Bolsters
- LMS Double Bolster
- Bogie Bolsters
- Pipe & Tube Wagons
- Brake Vans
- LMS 20-Ton Brake Vans
- Midland-style Vans
- Stanier Vans
- LNER/BR Brake Vans
- LNER 20-Ton Van
- BR 20-Ton Van
- GWR 20-Ton Brake Vans
- Southern Railway 25-Ton Brake Van
- Finishing Touches
- Wagon Loads & Sheets
- BR Wagon Liveries
- Painting, Lettering & Weathering
This is the final book 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 Two deals with general merchandise vans, special purpose vans and tank wagons.
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