Shockhood B - Dace conversions, early and late bod

Some of the Shockhood B wagons were taken into the engineer's fleet on the Southern Region. Initially, all that was done was to remove the sheet support apparatus and paint them olive green - with new white stripes, because even the shock gear was retained - and corner steps and grab handles were added. Then the shock gear was removed and the body welded to the chassis. In the longer run, some had their corrugated ends replaced with plain, and wooden floors replaced with steel. At least one made it into yellow and grey livery, and towards the ends of their lives some (maybe most) ended up with virtually no paint at all, just little Mainline stencils on top of the rust. One has been repainted into Bauxite in preservation on the GCR - look closely at the fitted freight train in the YouTube video by Boomsdog. With this model you can have two versions of the body: the price for the pair printed together is hardly more than for one. Add short ladders or footsteps to the corners of the Parkside Dundas or preferred chassis, and mess about with the height of the grab handles and add varying numbers of little plates at the ends where the bodies were welded down if you can't resist a bit of bashing. Those side handles didn't always survive and that lamp iron might have to come off the flat end, by the way. I have left it on because I haven't seen enough pictures to be sure if it was always moved off to the bufferbeam.