A Tale of Four Transwaggons

I visited a model store in the US last week and was surprised to find that they had quite a decent range of Marklin Z. A shame they didn't have any of the recent 'big' bogie tank cars, but amongst their collection was a pair of 'Habbins' wagons - one lettered up as a Transwaggon (ooo! didn;t even know Marklin had produced these) and one in the Belgian Nordwaggon scheme.

So, even at the exorbitant retail hens-teeth plus taxes prices being charged for these (probably) second-hand units, I couldn't resist picking them up for comparison with my two awful repaints.

The top is my desecrated Marklin Anniversary black one (with red lettering still showing through if you look really hard)

Second is my PanGas repainted into silver with a home made Transwaggon decal - which is a bit small and high up

Third is the Marklin Transwaggon - which is nicely lettered compared to the prototype, and will receive some weathering in the near future

And lastly the Belgian one - I'll be painting over it's Belgian-ness this.