Starting with this little selection of fairly mundane vans (with a cheeky Airfix mineral tacked on the end). The nearest van is a Southern diagram 1452 plywood van from the Ratio kit. I used a parkside underframe and reprofiled the roof as the moulding flared out too much at the bottom. The repair patches are a neat little etch from RT models. The next one along is a bog standard Br 12 tonner from the Parkside kit and the cattle van is Airfix. You can see what i did to an earlier one by clicking here https://p4newstreet.com/tag/airfix-catt ... -long-low/
Next up an ex GWR Y8 fruit van. This uses Bachmann RTR sides and Parkside ends as the RTR body is too wide. Steve Carter has already written about this conversion on Kier Hardy's site so there's no real point in repeating whats already put there. https://www.emgauge70s.co.uk/model_omwb213.html scroll to about halfway down. Just a quick note of thanks to Richard Oldfield for assisting with locating some buffers. On the 3 10ft wheelbase vans I've deviated from my normal approach of building them rigid by using the Dave Bradwell spring plates. Just as a bit of an experiment. See here - about halfway down https://traders.scalefour.org/DaveBradw ... ing-stock/
Ive been here before too - LMS D1994 milk tank from mostly Rumney models etches with a Lima Tank. My original one is the one on the right. As a slight variation the one I've just done uses the earlier style of underframe. https://p4newstreet.com/return-to-milk-tanks/ - see here for the original build
And D2173. These had sloping tanks and discharge at only one end. Justin kindly supplied me a test etch for the platform.
My little milk train in its entirety.
