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An EFE Leyland Titan PD1 with some improvements
EFE's Leyland Titan requires very little doing to it to make it look good. I have always felt the bonnet line is a little low, so this job started as a simple rectification job. All I intended to do was cut out the existing bonnet structure and replace it, slightly higher up, with a white metal one . What I have ended up doing is a little more drastic. The front bulkhead and cab nearside have been re-made in plastic sheet, the nearside headlamp has been replaced with a white metal one, and the radiator has been replaced with one wiich originally graced an EFE Weymann Orion-bodied Leyland Titan. So far, so good.
However, it's funny how you notice other things as you go along. The base model for this job is one of those Leyland Titan PD1s in Salford Corporation green livery, you know, the one with the incorrect seating unit (lowbridge style) in the upper deck. In replacing it with a correct centre-gangway unit off an EFE Guy utility double decker, I had to create a new upper deck floor out of plastic sheet to get the Guy seating unit to sit at the correct height. Then I drilled and filed out a destination aperture at the front, and a rear lower deck bulkhead window. I also opened-up the understairs luggage area with the aid of a hacksaw, and filed off the roof ventilators as my prototype has different versions, which I have modelled using plastic offcuts.
There is still a lot to do on this one, most notably the glazing, but that will wait until the model is painted. Then there is the detailing. What will it be? United Welsh Services no.969 (GAA179), which was new to Hants & Sussex in 1947, and passed to UW in 1949.
An EFE Leyland Titan PD1 with some improvements
EFE's Leyland Titan requires very little doing to it to make it look good. I have always felt the bonnet line is a little low, so this job started as a simple rectification job. All I intended to do was cut out the existing bonnet structure and replace it, slightly higher up, with a white metal one . What I have ended up doing is a little more drastic. The front bulkhead and cab nearside have been re-made in plastic sheet, the nearside headlamp has been replaced with a white metal one, and the radiator has been replaced with one wiich originally graced an EFE Weymann Orion-bodied Leyland Titan. So far, so good.
However, it's funny how you notice other things as you go along. The base model for this job is one of those Leyland Titan PD1s in Salford Corporation green livery, you know, the one with the incorrect seating unit (lowbridge style) in the upper deck. In replacing it with a correct centre-gangway unit off an EFE Guy utility double decker, I had to create a new upper deck floor out of plastic sheet to get the Guy seating unit to sit at the correct height. Then I drilled and filed out a destination aperture at the front, and a rear lower deck bulkhead window. I also opened-up the understairs luggage area with the aid of a hacksaw, and filed off the roof ventilators as my prototype has different versions, which I have modelled using plastic offcuts.
There is still a lot to do on this one, most notably the glazing, but that will wait until the model is painted. Then there is the detailing. What will it be? United Welsh Services no.969 (GAA179), which was new to Hants & Sussex in 1947, and passed to UW in 1949.