My somewhat hopeless addiction to building kits continues, I passed the point of having enough a long long time ago but there you go.  This time all variations on types I’ve built before.  Starting with the classic Airfix meat van.  Or in this case just the ends of one and even then only part of the ends!  Some meat vans lost their side vents and all but the top end vent.  The Airfix ends are kinda chunky and can easily take having sections of them cut out and replaced with bits of plasticard.  The rest of the van is all Parkside.   Behind it is a standard Parkside plywood sided kit built as a fruit version.

The Ratio Banana van kit. These are the second and third times I’ve built one of these and I’ve still yet to build one as the kit intended. On the left is the standard body and on the right modifications to convert it into the diagram 1/224 version.

The first body was mated with a 9ft wheelbase chassis (stretched at the ends to fit) to produce a ex-LMS D1672 insulated meat van.  By the time these were in BR service they lost the modifications that made them interresting. Those being roof mounted ice boxes and end ladders.  Note the different wheels as per the prototype image in LMS wagons volume 1.

And the Diagram 1/224 version.  Mounted on a detailed Red Panda chassis. Im just waiting for my friend to supply me some flexible steam heat hoses.

Some meat van variations – Left to right – the modified one shown at the start of the post.  A similar one by the same method but with unmodified ends.  A bog standard Parkside insulated one. The good old air-fix original (with Parkside doors and underframe) and the D1672 version.

And similar for Banana vans – Left to right D2111 LMS van from the Ratio kit on a shortened Parkside chassis.  The Diagram 1/224 van.  The ex GWR Y7 i featured last time and 2 Diagram 1/246 from the old Hornby Dublo bodies mounted on detailed Red Panda Chassis.