In The Carriage Works Again

I didn't see this one coming but I've spent the last couple of weeks working on scratch building a carriage again.What you are seeing in the picture is one side and one end of carriage 24, a replica of a North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways 'Summer Carriage' which was built at Boston Lodge almost 25 years ago.If you've been following this blog or have come to see Bron Hebog in the years when it was going to exhibitions you might be thinking at this point, hang on, I'm sure you've got one of those already?You're right, we do.But now we need to make another one.I can't say why, or at least for the moment I can't.Our brand has always been 'doing things the hard way', and my way of tackling a carriage like 24 is no exception!Every stick of those matchboard sides is stuck on individually. At a rough guess there must be around 150 of them, and that's without all the bits of door framing, the droplights and other bits of raised detailing.It took around a fortnight to get one side done!I'm not…