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Over the last 12 hours or so i have been building an RAF Fauld wagon.
Based on the one now located at Amberley
http://amberleynarrowgauge.co.uk/fauldwagon.htm

The chassis is an old Binnie engineering skip chassis.
The wood i used is Hobby's 10mmx2mm pine strip. Great stuff, the only down side to the stuff is it has massive grain, so it wouldnt really make good scale wood for 16mm.
The straping is small brass angle, which i found on a cheap tool stool at the great dorset steam fair of all places! (was unable to find any small enough in model shops, or even a model engineering rally)

I would quite like to make another, but using naturally dark wood, with small grain, so it looks more like the original. Mine has paint slapped on all over it, which doesnt looks to good close up.

Very good Andy!! Got lots of charm! To get the darker wood, why not use a dark wood stain? Or old oil mixed with a bit of white spirit and paint that on - good mucky effect.

mhlr wrote:Very good Andy!! Got lots of charm! To get the darker wood, why not use a dark wood stain?

Because i dont have any dark enough
What i build normally relies on what i can find lying around

mhlr wrote:Or old oil mixed with a bit of white spirit and paint that on - good mucky effect.

Never heard of that technique before. May have to try it. I'v tried oil on its own, but that didnt do much...

That's a lovely waggon, I quite fancy makeing a steel sided one now I've seen yours.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! great work. where did you get the sizes for it?

Hancockshire wrote:WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! great work. where did you get the sizes for it?

Thanks

I didnt get any sizes.

Its based on a binnie bolster chassis, which is a certain size.
I gessed the height and width until it looked right.

i am now half way through making another one for MTA (who isnt on here anymore)
Just waiting for the ruddy angle to arrive