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Alright, I'm in; with this Moving into n gauge model railways, one of the more perverse rules I set myself was the all the wagons had to be kit built (seems a good idea at the time). I'm not sure why a firm based at Bideford has put an East Anglian wagon in it's limited range but I want to encourage them. I've already built their GE stores room which was 'frustrating' but with some lovely detailing as laser cut allows for. I might go to the railway shed and photograph it sometime. Meanwhile, I've remembered why I stalled on building this. What colour?! Precision Paints say the ends should be dark GE wagon grey and the sides light wagon grey. Except looking at the ones at MANGAPPS, (other museums are available but this must the most loveable and eccentric East Anglian one) it's not that simple. Light grey all over Dark grey all over. Pondering this, but wary of going against Precision Paints who do a serious amount of research, I'm figuring light grey if it has vents on the ends, and dark if it doesn't. It seems to me this would have sense in a crowded goods yard for knowing which loads to go in which wagon. So, I've taken the lunge and ordered the light grey paint and eagerly await the post everyday now. For @Enzo the Magnificent and @Paul821 completely unfitted as 'befits' such an old wagn so no fiddly underframe to worry about- just got to get it square and true. For @JeroenS, sorry but you're not going to find this on Scalemates!- 22 replies
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Having admired @bar side's excellent build for some time I fancied putting my laser cutter to modelling use. Thanks to the aforementioned's generous sharing of photo material and some of my own digging around I decided to do a RAF Germany Brueggen HAS as my first attempt (facetted roof and interesting shaped blast doors) The old plans and scan I found in other BM threads had seen better days and I’m tucked up in bed with the cold so I took the opportunity to start over from scratch and do the whole thing myself. I’ve sized my drawings for laser cutting from 3mm laser-grade birch ply. I'll glue with PVA, fill with polyfiller and skin the upper surface with stiff card. A day or two of measuring and calculations gives me: You can see the king of thing I'm aiming for at and https://www.ecosia.org/images?q=raf+brueggen+hardened+aircraft+shelter
