{"id":4908,"date":"2021-10-08T12:08:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T11:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4908"},"modified":"2021-10-08T12:08:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T11:08:15","slug":"scratch-built-gnr-one-horse-parcels-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4908","title":{"rendered":"Scratch Built GNR One Horse Parcels Van"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\nI have always fancied building a horse drawn vehicle or two mainly as wagon loads for several Open Carriage trucks that I have on the go. I was put onto the idea by a gent I spoe to at a show a few years ago who subsequently brought me a horse drawn carriage from a company named Brumm. Some of the Brumm carriages fetch crazy amounts of money but I found one that was being sold as scrap for not much more than postage and bought it to salvage the wheels from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although my photo is of a Great Northern Railway parcels van, the only drawing I have is for an LNWR example but they are broadly similar. I scaled the drawing on the basis of the wheel size that I planned to use (the Brumm Wheels are slightly bigger diameter than the LNWR drawing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I drew out the body pieces in Inkscape and cut them out with the silhouette and got this basic body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please excuse the colouring of the photos as I had to adjust them to show the white against the white background&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"998\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0001-998x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4894\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0001-998x1024.jpg 998w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0001-292x300.jpg 292w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0001-768x788.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0001.jpg 1247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 998px) 100vw, 998px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1016\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0002-1016x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4895\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0002-1016x1024.jpg 1016w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0002-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0002-298x300.jpg 298w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0002-768x774.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0002.jpg 1270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1016px) 100vw, 1016px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"888\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0003-1024x888.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4896\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0003-1024x888.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0003-300x260.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0003-768x666.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0003-346x300.jpg 346w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0003.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"969\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0004-969x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4897\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0004-969x1024.jpg 969w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0004-284x300.jpg 284w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0004-768x812.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0004.jpg 1211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 969px) 100vw, 969px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always fancied building a horse drawn vehicle or two mainly as wagon loads for several Open Carriage trucks that I have on the go. I was put onto the idea by a gent I spoe to at a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4908\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horse-drawn-vehicles","category-silhouette-cutter"],"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\/4908","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=4908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4909,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908\/revisions\/4909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}