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Steam Loco 30067 brings a single Fisons wagon up from the Docks along Dockyard Rd.
There used to be a bridge over the road but thats long gone, although the abutment can still be seen behind the loco.
1:76 Scale , OO Gauge Diorama.
Loco is a Rails Exclusive model.
Made by Bachmann.
USA 060 Tank engine.
Fisons Presflo is by Wrenn
Car is by Classix
Yorkshire Woollen (NBC) Dual Purpose coach threading its way out of Dewsbury to head over the Pennines to Burnley.
1:76 Scale, OO gauge diorama.
Coach is by OOC/Corgi - ex midland red Leyland Leopard Marshal BET released June 2001 ...Detailed & :Lightly weathered..
Cars by Classix
This afternoon I spent a gory couple of hours chopping up the bodies of assorted OO/HO figures, to make them suitable as drivers for the various cars that appear on the Kennington Cross layout.
Inevitably they can easily be missed by the casual viewer.... but I know they are there!
I especially like the Austin Devon model. However, being Pocketbond Classix model, one has to drill out two rivets in order to release the chassis. In contrast the Oxford Diecast models have crosshead screws. In due course, I may summon the courage to install a driver in the Classix Vauxhall Ten - another very nice model,..... with the chassis held on by three rivets!
The Deveon chassis comes off complete with the bumpers, and the interior seems quite roomy compared to other models. Alas the driver seems to have steamed up his window!
Some while ago I went to the effort of converting a Classix Austin FL1 to a van as used to deliver Evening Standard newspapers in the fifties. I recently came across a 3D printed figure set comprising a news vendor with his stand and a 'business man' customer.
Whilst painting these I also remembered that the van needed a name board over the cab, which has now been added. The figures certainly loo the part outside the Charles Holden Underground station, although they appear to be nearer HO than OO. Fortunately I use many Preiser figures to this scale. The business man especially looks to be very slightly built. I will need to keep the more robust OO Bachmann tram (train) spotters away from him , in case they turn nasty!
Ahead of the van is a standard Austin FX3 , the taxi of the time from which the van was adapted.
E1 car 1571 in traffic alongside Austin A40 Dorset and Jowett Javelin. The Dorset was produced from 1947 -52 and the Javelin from 1947 - 53. The last London trams ran in July 1952.
Compared to a few years ago, there is now a wide choice of OO scale model cars available that are compatible with London trams, but one has to check!
A week or so ago I made the mistake of leaving the door to my room ajar. Blueberry, our youngest and most inquisitive cat was found on the landing with a guilty look on her face. I quickly checked the room (that contains the tramway layout) and couldn't find any damage.
Today I found the chewed up remains of two 'Keep Left' pillars.....
It seems that Blueberry had deftly walked along City Road avoiding the various vehicles and the static population, and then ripped both pillars up and chewed them. She probably beat a hasty retreat when she heard someone outside the room.
The pillars are simply constructed from card folded into shape with a top lid and a Keep Left sign added, so I looked out the file and printed some replacements.
Now installed - order is restored once more!
Free to download Keep Left bollards at www.kingswaymodels.com
Early morning and the first day in service for a Shiny new Scania Metropolitan threading through Doncaster to head out of Town to Arksey.
A Mac fisheries van is bringing the fresh fish to Town straight from the Coast.
1:76 Scale, OO Gauge diorama.
Bus is a South Yorkshire Transport by Britbus Released August 2004..
Van is a Morris Minor by Classix.
Both are diecast models.
Lincolnshire bus on a Duplicate working. The bus is a 'Little Bus Company' Resin and Metal kit painted in Lincolnshire Tilling cream and green. It is a Bedford OB with Beadle Bus Bodywork - a type used by Tilling in various places including Crosville and Keighley West Yorkshire I believe. Seaside Diorama is home made.
1:76. OO Gauge. The car is a diecast by Classix and is an Austin A35 Countryman Estate.
Charles Holden styled Underground station in 1/76 scale.
The station stands just opposite St Judes church on the model tram layout.
A fictional station similar in style to the buildings at Tooting Broadway and South Wimbledon.
I have been thinking about squeezing a period newpaper stall in outside the Underground station, on the portable tram layout. It then occurred to me that it might be possible to convert the 1/76 scale Classix FL1 hire car model into a van of the type used by the Evening Standard. Photos of such beasts are quite rare but I managed to pull together a number that would make the job possible.
The FX3 taxi from which the van was derived was produced from 1948 - 58. A couple of views I found suggested that the vans had only appeared after the London trams finished in 1952, until I found a rear view of one in one of my tram books. I also noted that a black/silver livery was used in later years (too late for the tram era). I assembled a thin card shell around the rear of the cab. Once painted with Humbrol Midnight Blue, I put together some self adhesive overlays with the lettering, matching the blue as best I could. A little crude but just about passable for me. I will soon set about producing the diagonal advert roof board to finish it off and then just need to do the newstand.
The van is seen with an FX3 cab for comparison.