Model train engine and two passenger cars on a track in an indoor setting.

My father has spent the last 3 years building a new layout for light exhibition use and I needed to populate it with some stock...

Mercian Models do a good range of suitable stock and so I set to work.

The Mercian coaches are designed with a strip along the top for attaching the roof. I don’t really like those and decided to cut them off and just solder it.

I also installed a small flap underneath the ends so that a brass floor could be screwed in place. I really should have taken some pictures of this but alas I didn’t.

They went together fairly easily. Traditional 5 sided box with a separate floor.

Two model train cars, one gold-colored with windows and one uncolored, on a workbench surrounded by tools and materials for craft or model building.

Next comes the paintwork. Etching primer followed by a coat of Royal Claret.

Two model train cars, one purple and one black, placed on a plastic container with a model train track in the background.

Mercian Coaches