{"id":7495,"date":"2026-01-21T11:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7495"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:16:18","slug":"scratch-built-packing-case-and-ner-oct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7495","title":{"rendered":"Scratch Built Packing Case and NER OCT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have done more at the packing case since my update. Now it has nail holes I am undecided whether to leave it as raw wood or attempt to paint it. Equally I am debating whether to add a tarpaulin sheet to it or not.<\/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\/2026\/01\/Packing-Case-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Packing-Case-1024x311.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7496\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Packing-Case-1024x311.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Packing-Case-300x91.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Packing-Case-768x233.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Packing-Case-1536x467.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Packing-Case-2048x623.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Packing-Case-500x152.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Packing Case<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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\/2026\/01\/Packing-Case-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"946\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Packing-Case-1-946x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7497\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Packing-Case-1-946x1024.jpg 946w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Packing-Case-1-277x300.jpg 277w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Packing-Case-1-768x831.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Packing-Case-1-1419x1536.jpg 1419w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Packing-Case-1-1892x2048.jpg 1892w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 946px) 100vw, 946px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Packing Case<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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\/2026\/01\/Loaded-Packing-Case-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"598\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Loaded-Packing-Case-1-1024x598.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7498\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Loaded-Packing-Case-1-1024x598.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Loaded-Packing-Case-1-300x175.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Loaded-Packing-Case-1-768x449.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Loaded-Packing-Case-1-1536x898.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Loaded-Packing-Case-1-2048x1197.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Loaded-Packing-Case-1-500x292.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\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\/2026\/01\/Loaded-Packing-Case-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"957\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Loaded-Packing-Case-957x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7499\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Loaded-Packing-Case-957x1024.jpg 957w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Loaded-Packing-Case-280x300.jpg 280w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Loaded-Packing-Case-768x822.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Loaded-Packing-Case-1436x1536.jpg 1436w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Loaded-Packing-Case-1914x2048.jpg 1914w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have done more at the packing case since my update. Now it has nail holes I am undecided whether to leave it as raw wood or attempt to paint it. Equally I am debating whether to add a tarpaulin &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7495\">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":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scratch-building-in-plasticard"],"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\/7495","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=7495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7500,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions\/7500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}