{"id":273,"date":"2011-10-26T10:43:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T09:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redgate.x-vc.co.uk\/?p=273"},"modified":"2021-10-15T20:25:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T19:25:05","slug":"parkside-rch-5-plank-12-ton-wagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Parkside RCH 5 Plank 12 Ton Wagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this kit up at with the intention of producing a severely distressed wagon for loco coal on Summat Colliery.<\/p>\n<p>The basic construction went ahead with no problems following the instructions in the kit. I fitted Parkside NEM pocket mounts &#8211; took more fiddling than I expected to get the height right. I ended up carving off the vertical projections off the mounts and then cutting back the underframe bracing until the correct height was achieved &#8211; silly me for expecting that they would just fit<\/p>\n<p>Nice kit to build, but you do need something like EMA Plastic Weld to stick the black ABS bits.<\/p>\n<p>The body was primed with red oxide primer and Halfords Ford radiant red was used as the final colour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redgate.x-vc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC00430.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-274\" title=\"Parkside 16t - red\" src=\"http:\/\/redgate.x-vc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC00430-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC00430-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC00430-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC00430.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HMRS transfers were used to produce its pristine Summat Colliery PO livery<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redgate.x-vc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC00435_fade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-281\" title=\"Parkside 16t - Summat\" src=\"http:\/\/redgate.x-vc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC00435_fade-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC00435_fade-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC00435_fade-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC00435_fade.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After a couple of weeks to let the paint and transfers to harden I used a combination of the techniques described by David Spencer in Hornby Mag Issue 6 and bounce spraying the underframe to distress the wagon. I took it slowly as this little wagon had taken a lot of time \u2013 I didn&#8217;t want to mess it up in the weathering stage.<\/p>\n<p>Real coal over a lot of lead made it a heavy little wagon that ran well at subsequent shows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redgate.x-vc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC00485_fade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-283\" title=\"Parkside 16t - Weathered\" src=\"http:\/\/redgate.x-vc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC00485_fade-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC00485_fade-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC00485_fade-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC00485_fade.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who would have thought that I would have heaped so much attention on a WAGON?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this kit up at with the intention of producing a severely distressed wagon for loco coal on Summat Colliery. The basic construction went ahead with no problems following the instructions in the kit. I fitted Parkside NEM pocket mounts &#8211; took more fiddling than I expected to get the height right. I ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgatemodels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}