On the Wagon .... 30's Style

[John Candy]

On the Wagon .... 30's Style

In the 1930's, a co-ordinated campaign by the "Big Four", to promote house removals by rail, led to some colourful liveries on furniture containers.

In 1932 the Southern finished a Lot of 50 K-type containers to diagram 3011 (contractor-built by Gloucester R C & W) in pale green (often referred to as "sea green") with a "Z" logo in olive green, outlined in orange.

As a break from the carriages, I spent the past few days designing and printing a diagram 3011 container as in the attached photo., showing it on my LNER "Conflat S". The transfers were a "fiddle" to design but turned out quite well.
The base colour is BS381C 217 "sea green" mixed to order and supplied in a spray can.
The lettering is actually cream/stone colour ... the bright sunlight has made it look more yellow.

[IanT]

Another very nice model John!

Well done.

Regards,

IanT

[MikeWilliams]

Couldn't agree more Ian.  I don't know the prototype but the model looks just superb.  And its colourful too - makes a change from grey, grey, bauxite and grey!

Mike

[keith Bristol]

Very nice model

[Jon Nazareth]

Excellant. 

Jon

[John Candy]

Thank you all for your kind comments.

If anyone wants to print their own, the files are available to G3 Society members.

To find out more go to https://gauge3.info/SR_Container_README.pdf

The file to print the transfers is at
https://gauge3.info/3D_print_4_yourself/SR_container_transfers.pdf

NOTES ON PRODUCING THE TRANSFERS
Whereas I used my special printer to produce the transfers (it is capable of printing a white backing layer to make the colours of the transfer opaque when using transparent film) it is possible to use an ordinary laser printer with a white decal film and carefully cut around the outline of the "Z" logo. When using this method it will help to surround the logo with an approximation of the "sea green" colour to mask any outline.
The plain lettering (in view of the light green base colour) should print satisfactorily on a transparent decal film if you darken the shade of green from the olive colour of the "Z" logo (it may take a few test prints to get the right depth/shade).