A different way of looking at things.

More from the most prolific NZ120 modeler on the planet currently (if you believe I'm incorrect, please provide photographic evidence and a blurb about what you have been doing).
This time its an interesting take on modern wagons, and the paint schemes that they carry. These can be a bugger to paint, and its not a simple task to most of us to create a decal to match. However, with a camera and a bit of naked cunning, so very good results can be achieved.

"This week I discovered some pics taken at Westfield and printed out on a laser printer 10 years ago.

Better late than never, I cut some ¾ inch stick to size, and made the ends from corrugated (roofing) plasticard. The tops were thin plasticard. Paint for these bits was matched to the sides by trial and error. Although the sides of the containers look detailed in 3d they are obviously flat... and with the technology of the day they’re not of great resolution by today’s standards, but pass the 2 foot rule.

Problem was, when it came to make the UK, the wagon seemed about 5mm short. It looks like I scaled the printout to the correct height but not length… Still, they don’t look bad in a train and now armed with better technology I may rescan and reprint the pics. Bogies are some old MDCs with microtrains pizza cutter wheels as for once I don’t have any spare MT bogies lying around. The NC (or whatever) is plastic on brass on Peco."

Note that the photographed model in the middle looks better than the hand painted examples on either side.

I remember Karl Morris (and the walrus moustache, it must have been a 90's thing)doing something similar for GT car wagons, and sides of containers many years ago. They looked OK from a distance as well.

Tomorrow night, whats the most embarrassing thing you have done while modeling (names will be omitted to protect the guilty), and I'll reveal what statcounter tells me about my readers (and possibly the oddest web search hit you'll ever get).