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HARTLAND LOCOMOTIVE
WORKS
ORE WAGON KIT ref 15020
Hartland
Locomotive Works are a not so well known G scale manufacturer
from the USA. The web site is
http://www.h-l-w.com
. At a recent G scale exhibition Back2Bay6 were selling a range
of products from this manufacturer. My recently built diesel
shunter needed a little load to pull and the ore wagon kits at 3
for £25 were just the job at a very reasonable price.
The kits
are very simple and almost fell together, probably taking no
more than ten minutes to assemble each one. I painted the wagon
frame matt black and the tipper part with red oxide primer. To
create a load that was not too heavy I cut a piece of plasticard
to fit inside the hopper and then built up a little hump shape
from other pieces of plasticard. This was then roughly painted
in a stone sort of colour and fitted into the hopper.
The
painted plasticard was then covered with glue.
And then
the grit I use for ballast was added to make a fairly light,
loaded wagon.
They make
an appropriate train for my shunter, shown here battling through
the snow. With the grit placed in the hoppers as shown above
they are top heavy so need to be glued to the frame in order to
avoid automatically tipping as they go round. They could do with
some heavy weathering as the real things were invariably in a
rusty and battered state.
The kit is
not highly detailed and there is a ridge right across the buffer
beam. Apart from this the rest of the mouldings were crisp and
quite free from flash. They make up into a pleasant
representation of an industrial tipper wagon.
Overall a
very easy kit to put together which would be suitable for a
young or inexperienced modeller.
25/02/05
Chris
Morris
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