Easy wagon kit for beginners! Parkside Kit Build & Review
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- These kits go together very easily, and produce a nice model of the LNER 12T Van. Ideal for any OO Gauge Model Railway layout.
All you need to add is glue and paint, transfers are included. This kit retails at £10.25, and is really good value for those of you on a budget.
Introduced in the late 1930s, these wagons (diagram 25) were used for general traffic until the late 1960s. Being equipped with the vacuum brake, they were suitable for express goods services.
So is this an easy wagon kit for beginners to build? Watch as I build and review it.
Look at any pictures of the Railway in the 50s and 60s, and you will see plenty of box vans, of which this was a common type. To my mind, you can never have too many of these, and luckily there are various kits to allow some variety.
If you want to build a nightmare kit, try the Cambrian herring ballast wagon, nice video work,
These are excellent kits and good value for money. However, the roof to body joints are fragile. I make 4 additional bulkheads from thick plastic card. Use one bulkhead at each end to provide more surface area for the adhesive to grab. The other two bulkheads are fitted one either side of the door aperture. Then I fasten a large metal nut between those bulkheads using an epoxy adhesive. Now there’s even more area for the adhesive to grab and the van also has a more substantial weight. Cast white metal buffers are a good idea too.
Great tip, thanks!
I've recently gotten a couple of these for my LNER era layout, and I'm wondering about the colour and the numbering for them. Any thoughts or suggestions? Also, what might you suggest for a weight to put inside the van?
My understanding is that the LNER had a Bauxite livery for fitted vehicles, as BR just use the the same distinction when they started in 1948. I'm not sure whether the shade of brown was exactly the same, but I imagine it wouldnt have been too different.
The numbering system BR used simply put a letter in front of the previous owners number, so on this van, the transfers are Exxxxxx - for the LNER period you could just cut off the E.
For weight, the long standing rule of thumb seems to be 25g per axle, so 50g for a van like this. I've seen all sorts of ideas, I've been using "liquid lead" from DCC Concepts - basically a lot of little lead balls, which I glue in. I've also seen people use the weights that balance car tyres and even coins. It probably depends on how visible they are going to be, at least in a van like this, you can use anything as its not going to be seen.
That was very useful as I have a couple of kits to make myself , have you the part number for the NEM pocket blocks ? Cheers Kev
Hi, the part number is PA34 and a pack of 10 seems to retail for about £3. They are also useful for replacing older couplings, or for fitting to old Airfix kits instead of the rubber band ones they come with.
Thanks 👍🏾
Hi do these kits come with the couplings
No they dont - however Peco Parkside do some blocks to allow you to fit any NEM coupling - part PA34
Easy for beginners, but you fast-forwarded the entire process of building the thing, so beginners can't get a good visual understanding of the assembly if the instructions feel too cryptic.
Yea, this is one of my earlier videos. If I was doing it again now (and you can never have too many vans!) I would make it a longer video. I think I was worried people would get bored and switch off!
could you try the HTO KIT..? I dont know anybody who knows how to build it correctly and the instructions are deplorable!! lol
I'm afraid I've never heard of them?