Without wishing to sound waspish,
As If !
The curse of Gauge One rolls relentlessly forwards it seems, or are there any decent products coming out anywhere?
Simon
Well, Simon, you've contributed positively to Marc Dobson's New Wagon Kits thread
G1 wagon bodies are now available off the website. The currently need Slaters axle guards, wheels brakes and couplings to complete. Marc
www.westernthunder.co.uk
and Marc released 27 Gauge One designs this month - some sort of Record.
I bought his Midland shunter's truck, and pored over those few prototype photos I could find.
No, it isn't quite as comprehensive as (say) a Phipps or a Slaters kit, yet the price was great, and it's a near-finished wagon that leaves very little for the Detailing fanatic to do. (At any rate, a lot less work than your brave upgrade of the Northern Finescale brake van.) I haven't spotted any nut or bolts missing, anyway. My issues (others' mileage may vary) are below the solebar - an area Marc doesn't often stray into, and which he will no doubt master as time goes by, and a source of complementary running gear sprouts to join him.
There's one bit of slack we do need to cut Marc for our own sakes:
I found the actual model to be noticeably better than the photo on his website.
So I suspect that the photo was of a smaller scale version, and simply included as a 'place-holder' to show what
wagon you get.
While that's fair enough - I doubt Marc can afford to photograph a full set of completed 1:32 kits until he's got some revenue from the range - any Friendly Wasp, looking to the website to see the
quality, could be unnecessarily disappointed.
To paraphrase another forum member,
"Buy what they make, then lean on them to make better: otherwise they'll think there's no market, and stop making anything."
which, to give Your Stripeyness due credit, you have indeed done yourself