GWR Showcase: Kevin Atkinson's 7mm Models (18)

This page shows a 7mm GWR Permanent Way and Works brake van, built from a Peco kit. Although it appears blue in these photos, it is in fact painted matt black as all "Ways & Works" wagons were.

A view of the interior. All the cab detail is scratch built from Slaters Plastikard and brass wire. The roof ribbing is also scratchbuilt .The inside cab should have had chocolate brown from floor to waist height, and cream from waist to ceiling - but I made the insides all cream in order to highlight the detail when the roof is on.

I have added the brake gear from The Parkside Dundas GWR 20 ton brake van kit DIA-AA19, also i added the ballast plate and the sand pipes are from Slaters brass wire and 2mm scrap brass strip.

A caution on modelling the insides of brake vans: You need to make sure that you have all the right informatiion before you start to detail them. You can't build eg an AA6 brake van with a AA19 interior as they all had different interiors. Moreover as they were repaired and serviced and had overhauls, they became increasingly different - even each series could vary. I used fior reference GWR Goods Wagons" by Atkins, Beard and Tourrret (pages 473- figure 447 and page 480-figure 649). The paints are from Precision, Humbrol and Revell, while transfers came with the kit and I gave it a coat of Precision matt varnish.