HLR goods vans

[invercloy]

For my birthday I received 10 of the Parkside Dundas Tralee and Dingle vans, a mixture of the covered goods vans, butter vans and the cattle/covered van with sliding hatches.

Here are the first four:



I plan on kit bashing a few of them into slightly different looking vehicles.  One of the covered vans will have the end panel in the sides opened out at either end and the top half of the end panels opened out (if that makes sense) to represent a guards van.  Some of the covered vans will have centre opening roofs like the ones used on the L&LSR and therefore will have tarpaulins over the centre section of the roof.

They are excellent kits and build up in to very chunky and purposeful looking vehicles.

More on progress once I've finished work on the ratio bashes.

[Tigger]

Oh the joys of a larger loading gauge!!

These are looking very good.  Keep it up!

[JulienW]

Without checking the book I can't be sure but it would not surprise me if some of the T&D vans were supplied as 'center open roof' types as they were quite popular throughout Ireland (even on the 5' 3" gauge)

Another roof option might be corrugated iron/ plasticard.

[DeadHorse]

I look forward to seeing the occasional giraffe poking his head out between bridges. :-)

[tedp]

Hankering after the old Tri-ang set?   ;D

The T&D kits make wonderful models, don't they? I think the centre open version would be a good idea, with a tarpaulin stretched over. Something different from the rest.