{"id":2533,"date":"2017-01-30T18:11:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T17:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2017-01-30T18:11:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T17:11:43","slug":"connoisseur-ner-birdcage-brake-van-final-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2533","title":{"rendered":"Connoisseur NER Birdcage Brake Van – final details"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not much modelling done over the weekend due to a combination of not feeling well on Saturday and a trip to Pontefract show on Sunday. Which was very enjoyable even if I did come back with etches for 4 Pullman coaches which Chris spotted and encouraged me to buy that I hadn’t planned on…<\/p>\n

A few hours last night had the first van almost complete (I had thought it complete until I remembered that I hadn’t fitted a couple of hand rails or any guard irons under the brake yokes.<\/p>\n

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Connoisseur NER Birdcage Brake Van – Hand rails fitted<\/p><\/div>\n

The hand rails that are missing are the two small ones above the wrap around rails in this view – the other end should have similar fitted about a quarter of the way up the windows.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t fancy trying to drill out the rather nice cast chimney because it’s very slender so I scratched a pair of replacements from telescoping tube and a cover plate from the spares box, completed them.<\/p>\n

I also noted on the drawing that the sliding doors had a hasp so I made a couple from scrap etch.<\/p>\n

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