in nine mill scale
At the time of writing I do not have any passenger rolling stock that I have built myself, but I do have a couple of guard's vans which were as much at home at the end of a passenger train as a goods train, so I have put them here. I figure it's better than saying that this page is under construction.
 | I built this model of a 1950s steel sheathed van rather as a test bed to check out how suitable sheet styrene was for larger scale models. |
The sides are made from laminated styrene and six or seven years after building about 1991 it is still standing up well. I am encouraged now to use this building technique for box cab electrics, one of which I have had in mind for some years.
| 22' Midland Van. |  |
For years I looked at the plan for this van in the Guild planbook - one of the old 'Gestetner' volumes of the 1950s and always thought it to be a real cutie. It's construction followed closely contemporary NZR 30' vans with a cut here and a tuck there. So that's how I approached the model. I used one of John Gardener's 30' van kits and 'cut it down to size'. That kit of John's has appeared in many guises and I hope that some readers will be encouraged to send me images of what they have done with them for inclusion in these pages.
Updated 22 September 1998