On the wagon front, we have progress as the pictures will show.

First is the assemblage with wheels.

Importantly the suspension works, the wheels are at the correct height – shown by the buffers matching up with my other wagon.

So it is starting to look the part.

Next is to add all the gear under the solebars: mostly the leaf springs and the brake gear.  This is a picture taken after I have removed the wheels in order to paint the gear.

There are some other items to add, though: the brake lever racks, together with the chains which I have added, with the pins used to “pin down the brakes” as the old locomotive men used to have to do (by hand, down the whole train!) before taking a train of these wagons down a steep hill.

The following pictures are of the largely completed wagon, prior to painting.  I will admit that the load is not “to scale” (merely stones from the garden) but they hold the suspension compressed and so at the correct height.

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Click to enlarge, as always.