The VoR set progress

I mentioned the other day that I had purchased two Vale of Rheidol Carriages and a Brake van to make a complete running set for the railway. They were very simple to construct and I have customised them slightly, so that they fit in with the running gauge and the look of my line. 

I have built the carriages without the vent duckets on top of the rooves and given them a custom Cream and Green livery. I was intending to try and paint them in a West Highland style livery, but I thought that the Brunswick green gave it a very classy exterior. 

I have also made sure that the carriages have a suitable level of detail, as they now form the main running set on the line. One carriage is near completion, the other needs the layers of cream adding and the seats putting in place. I have made them slightly different to each other in that their exteriors have a different finish. Carriage 1 as it will be known will have a cream interior and Carriage 2 will have a brown interior.

I am going to order some transfers soon, so that they can be presented as fully detailed carriages. I am going to follow the Ffestiniog tradition and add white labels to the top of each carriage end, so that engineering staff know which carriage is which. 

I need to make a large order of makers plates and numbers for the fleet. More on that in a future blog post.