{"id":228,"date":"2012-12-27T12:04:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T11:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2012-12-27T12:04:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T11:04:14","slug":"228","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of hours yesterday saw the brake van complete (or as complete as I plan to make it). I deviated from Jim&#8217;s build methods by using some WEP compensation units, although I have fitted other vehicles exactly as Jim suggests without issue before.<\/p>\n<p>I rolled some microbore tube in my rolling bars to ensure that all four sand pipes were to the same profile and then made the distinctive safety loops for the brake yokes from fine scrap etch. Besides painting the only things to complete are the springing of the coupling hooks\/buffers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=229\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-229\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-229\" alt=\"NBR Brake Van 001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-001.jpg\" width=\"782\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-001.jpg 782w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-001-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-001-391x300.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=230\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-230\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-230\" alt=\"NBR Brake Van 002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-0022.jpg\" width=\"601\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-0022.jpg 601w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-0022-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-0022-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=231\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-231\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-231\" alt=\"NBR Brake Van 003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-0032.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-0032.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-0032-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=232\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-232\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-232\" alt=\"NBR Brake Van 004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-0042.jpg\" width=\"746\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-0042.jpg 746w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-0042-300x241.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-0042-373x300.jpg 373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=233\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-233\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-233\" alt=\"NBR Brake Van 005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-0051.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-0051.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-0051-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-0051-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=234\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-234\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-234\" alt=\"NBR Brake Van 006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-0062.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-0062.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-0062-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NBR-Brake-Van-0062-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As with the other Connoisseur wagons that I have built, this was a joy to put together even if you don&#8217;t want to add any additional details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of hours yesterday saw the brake van complete (or as complete as I plan to make it). I deviated from Jim&#8217;s build methods by using some WEP compensation units, although I have fitted other vehicles exactly as Jim &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=228\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connoisseur-nbr-brake-van"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}