{"id":6970,"date":"2025-03-21T17:47:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6970"},"modified":"2025-03-21T17:47:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:47:41","slug":"connoisseur-brake-vans-the-final-part-the-v4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6970","title":{"rendered":"Connoisseur Brake Vans &#8211; The final part, the V4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before I put the finishing touches to the V1\/3 brake vans I finished off the V4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This included adding LNER lettering and then glazing and detail painting. When I built it I had drilled out the buffer stocks to accept proprietary sprung buffer heads, which I put away safe. Sadly in the intervening years safe morphed into lost although I am sure they will appear again at some point. So I did a first for me I turned some replacements from one of the many pieces of steel rod recovered from scrapping a printer. There was one length of just the diameter I needed so off I went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-IMG_0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"943\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-IMG_0001-943x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6971\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-IMG_0001-943x1024.jpg 943w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-IMG_0001-276x300.jpg 276w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-IMG_0001-768x834.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-IMG_0001.jpg 1179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 943px) 100vw, 943px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shop Turned Buffer heads<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thankfully, I did find the couplings that I had made up at the same time so they were fitted too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-New-Out99999-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-New-Out99999-1-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6972\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-New-Out99999-1-1024x578.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-New-Out99999-1-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-New-Out99999-1-768x434.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-New-Out99999-1-500x282.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-New-Out99999-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LNER V4 Brake Van<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a reminder of it&#8217;s full interior before I stick the roof on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-IMG_0010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"709\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-IMG_0010-1024x709.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6973\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-IMG_0010-1024x709.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-IMG_0010-300x208.jpg 300w, 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