Chris Klein's Workbench

I thought I would start my life on Platform1 with a simple RTR conversion of the Minerva GWR OPEN A 5-plank wagon into a match truck. The wagon is to diagram L22, which were converted from 5-plank open wagons.

It's a simple and quick job:
1. Run some clean white spirit around the planked floor and leave for 40 to 60 seconds for the glue to soften, then carefully prize it out and place to one side.
2. Invert the wagon, unscrew the body and lift it off. Remove one of the ballast weights.
3. Using white spirit again, remove the wagon ends.
4. With a sharp knife reduce the height of the sides and ends to one plank.
5. Reassemble the sides and ends and reattach to the underframe.
6. Replace the planked floor.
7. Remove the redundant strapping on the sides and fill the door lines.
8. Trim the tops of the strapping on the ends to a downwards slope.
9. Rub-down the tops of the planks.
10. Add new strapping on the sides from plasticard taking it under the sides and onto the solebars and scribe new lines where the old strapping has been removed.
11. Paint, apply decals and weather to taste. The waterslide decals are leftovers from a Slater's Coopercraft kit.

Chris K