At last - the bus is finished!
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And it is with quite some relief that I can pronounce it finished at last - three weeks of quality modelling time - far more than I expected but I did do far more than I expected - which, of course, I should have expected! I am certain that I did take pictures of the intermediate stages but I can't find them now so you will have to make do with these. It did look particularly good with all the brass bits and other shiny metal and was a bit of a shame to spray it but needs must. It was almost finished four days ago but when I went to add the die cast stairs on the back I just couldn't do it as they looked so over scale. I didn't fancy replacing the whole lot it the rather complex curve of the steps so instead, hacked, cut and filed the sides away just to leave the spiral foot steps. I wasn't sure what I was going to do next but ended up annealing (heating up on gas stove to red heat then quenching - makes it hold a bend better), the brass for the step sides. Down side of this is that it forms an unsolderable coating on the brass which is a devil to clean without undoing the bend. Anyway, brass sides were then Evo - stuck to the steps which was an experiment that did work. I was then able to solder the uprights to the brass being very careful not to linger with the iron. Am really pleased with the results but a lot more work. Enough words - here are some pics;
I would have liked to have attached it to the layout permanently but unfortunately it is just too tall for the gap when the boards are stowed for transport. Other slight problem with it is that in a lot of the available period pictures there are whole rows of them lined up at a time. I am very wary having a token 'one' of everything on layouts but for now one is going to have to do as not going to spend another month doing another one! I have got far better things to do like converting a truck from another one! I never learn.
I am really kicking myself for not taking a 'before' picture as I think the improvements are dramatic.
Another couple of pictures with a rather relaxed OC using it as an outdoor office to go over deployment of the rather confused sniper reverently waiting on the steps.
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