{"id":7716,"date":"2026-05-11T17:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7716"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:34:48","slug":"connoisseur-models-lner-single-bolster-wagons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7716","title":{"rendered":"Connoisseur Models LNER Single Bolster Wagons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Late last week I managed to get the final bit of paint and the transfers fitted to the bolster wagons.<\/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\/05\/LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagons-2s-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"475\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagons-2s-1024x475.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7717\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagons-2s-1024x475.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagons-2s-300x139.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagons-2s-768x357.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagons-2s-1536x713.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagons-2s-2048x951.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagons-2s-500x232.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\/05\/LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagons-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"558\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagons-1024x558.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7718\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagons-1024x558.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagons-300x164.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagons-768x419.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagons-1536x838.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagons-2048x1117.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LNER-Single-Bolster-Wagons-500x273.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my modelling time period these would have been relatively new so I didn&#8217;t want the wood finish to be too aged. It took about 6 layers of combinations of Vallejo: Wood Grain,&nbsp;Burnt Umber and Chainmail silver to get a finish I was happy with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also added a wash of rust and some graphite from a pencil lead onto the rubbing plates for the bolsters. At the minute I&#8217;m undecided as to what if any weathering to apply to the&nbsp;outside of the body and underframes. So I will delay fitting my load (a tree trunk aka a thickish twig from the garden)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connoisseur-lner-single-bolster-wagons"],"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\/7716","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=7716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7719,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7716\/revisions\/7719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}