N Brass Locos Glyn Valley Tramway Horse Drawn Coach - part 5.

As part of my spate of finishing off old projects I dug out this little coach. It was actually mostly finished a long time ago, the final steps being giving it a coat of Testors Dullcoat, glazing, and fitting the coupling loops and wheels.

I left the coach in its two main parts, body and chassis, for painting. As the body is a tight fit over the chassis there's no need for any additional means of holding the two together, handy should I ever wish to fit figures inside.

The instructions state that at one stage (date unknown) the body was possibly painted with buff sides with mid-green ends and ventilators, which is the livery that I've chosen. Which leaves the actual colour hues open to interpretation without further research, especially as the fashions and paint pigments of the day would have been very different than they are now, so colour schemes that would look odd to our eyes might have been the height of fashion back then. I've not added any lettering, in part due to my lazyness and partly because I want it to be a generic coach rather than one belonging to any particular line.

For the body sides I chose Tamiya XF-57 Buff, for the ends XF-5 Flat Green and the roof XF-20 Medium Grey. XF-69 Nato Black was used for the underframe. All applied with an airbrush, over etching followed by auto primer, both from rattlecans.

Glazing is just clear sheet, glued in place with Rok-It card glue.

Here it is again, with my Penrhyn workmans coach and a Saltford Peckett, which I think makes an attractive if somewhat odd little train;

Quite a nice little kit of a very unusual prototype. And no, I will not be attempting to make a working horse to pull it. But I can see myself building a few more small etched coaches, of different designs.
This kit is available from N Brass Locos.

Paul.