{"id":6753,"date":"2024-08-28T20:48:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T19:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6753"},"modified":"2024-08-28T20:48:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T19:48:28","slug":"update-on-the-connoisseur-models-lsswr-brake-vans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6753","title":{"rendered":"Update on the Connoisseur Models LSSWR brake vans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wow, some time since I touched these. &#8211; 2020&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the last couple of weekends I have been demonstrating brass wagon building at a couple of shows so I took these along to see if I could make some progress on them. Surprisingly I did manage to make quite a bit of progress with both of these now up on their wheels with brake gear fitted. They still need brake rodding added and then details such as buffers etc. &#8211; I will take some photos once they are properly dry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plan for these was always to sell them when complete to fund something else and now that they are nearing completion I am starting to think about what livery to finish them in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news is that they are now both sold, one as is to be finished by it&#8217;s new owner and the second to be finished and painted in a yellow light railway livery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s where I had got to by the end of Redcar show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-IMG_0001-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-IMG_0001-3-1024x686.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6754\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-IMG_0001-3-1024x686.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-IMG_0001-3-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-IMG_0001-3-768x515.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-IMG_0001-3-448x300.jpg 448w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-IMG_0001-3.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Connoisseur LSWR Brake Van<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-New-Out99998.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"739\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-New-Out99998-1024x739.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6755\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-New-Out99998-1024x739.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-New-Out99998-300x217.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-New-Out99998-768x554.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-New-Out99998-416x300.jpg 416w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-New-Out99998.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Connoisseur LSWR Brake Van<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-New-Out999989.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-New-Out999989-1024x738.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6756\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-New-Out999989-1024x738.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-New-Out999989-300x216.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-New-Out999989-768x553.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-New-Out999989-416x300.jpg 416w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1-New-Out999989.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Connoisseur LSWR Brake Van<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, some time since I touched these. &#8211; 2020&#8230; For the last couple of weekends I have been demonstrating brass wagon building at a couple of shows so I took these along to see if I could make some progress &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6753\">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":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connoisseur-models-lswr-brake-vans"],"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\/6753","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=6753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6757,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions\/6757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}