NER Wagons – Painting and lettering

For quite some time I have been steadily working my way through a selection of 3D printed NER wagons for a friend painting and lettering them. The painting was done over time but last week I got stuck into the lettering

NER R3 Coke hopper
NER S4 Hopper Wagons
NER D1 and D2 Bolster Wagons
NER P3 and P4 Hopper Wagons
NER P1 and P2 Hopper wagons
NER C2 Open Wagons
NER S1 Hopper Wagons

Much of the lettering was done with some custom transfers printed by Precision Labels. They are nice and once you get used to them quite easy to apply but the font is a bit small in my view and could have done with being a couple of points bigger. They are also quite vulnerable to the lettering rubbing off when handling until they are over varnished. Still an interesting exercise as a I wasn’t too familiar with the various NER diagrams.