Self Contained - Building a container wagon - 1

From where we left off last night:

Building tiny things in a tiny scale would just be silly, but I’ve been thinking a bit about my container train and it all kinda fell into place tonight.

For the bottom half, I bought a four pack of these VTG shorty tarp covered wagons a while back - they’ve very nice, but I don’t need four of them. Best of all, they sit on the appropriate modern Y25 bogies that roll nicely.

Popping the top off, one gets:

Whacking them non-surgically in half with a pair of pliers:

For the top half, some containers from some American stack cars (sorry about these crappy cellphone pics):

Stuck together with some ancient contact glue:

Flipped over:

You can guess what happens next: 

Well that was easy.

Now for the hard bit - prettying it up...