Photographed on my layout, Framsden
A while ago, in an earlier post, I showed some ballast wagons I was building. They are interesting vehicles because they are very short, have dumb buffers; the ends are different; and the sides slope. They were fun to build and some time I must complete the brake van to go with them. There was some doubt whether they were originally in varnished wood livery or painted dark red. I chose to 'paint' them in varnished wood. The brake van will be dark red. The thing I really like is the way the loads have come out. I used a bed of Milliput to add some weight and provide a slightly varied surface and then added coal ash over the top, which gave a very nice variegated effect.