Red brick (N part 48)…

During the late 1980s bricks were being moved by rail in small quantities using the wagon load network…

That makes them a reasonable choice for a load on my Speedlink era ‘Paxton Road’. I had pondered how best to respresent these palletised loads and found a supplier of 3D printed details ‘Bunters Yard’ whose range included a brick pallet in N scale. 

An order was duly placed, and these were primed and then painted Humbrol 70 for the bricks, 72 for the pallet and the tops dry brushed with 70 with a touch of 28. Once dry they were glued to a false floor cut to fit the Farish OBA wagon.

My intention is to also model the concrete block loads in my Plasmor OBA - but that required me to draw them up I think, as they’re quite unusual in how they were loaded. For now, this feels better than being empty, and was a quick enjoyable evening project. Until next time, more soon…

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