With the 5-planks awaiting the arrival of paint, I've moved on to a trio of BR/LNER 13t Steel Open wagons. After a lot of picture starting I decided that the way the instructions say to make the tops of the sides, folded over with 0.7mm rod soldered underneath doesn't really represent the prototype. I'd made two bodies before reaching this conclusion, so for the third one I removed the 2mm or so fold at the top of the sides - by clamping in folder and waggling. This has a reason, waggling them off rather than cutting leaves a trace of the half-etch. I then soldered on 1mm brass rod to the 'front' of the remaining half-etch which looks right - the inside goes up the back of the rod leaving the rod overhanging as per the photos. Well I know what I mean. The top one is the instructions version, the lower mine. Now to re-do the other two.
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