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Juniper Hill Road Vehicles


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Before I start thanks to Andy Y for his words of wisdom re: altering image sizes. I wish I'd have asked earlier!

 

This is my first entry for a while now. I've been working on bits for Juniper Hill, my layout based around the ironstone lines of East Northamptonshire. Hopefully, with the spring coming-believe it or not I hope to get into the garage for some track laying and soldering.

 

Fred the bus driver has known Doris his conductress for a number of years now. Doris had started working for United Counties in Northamptonshire during the war and had carried on in her role. She works with Fred who'd been demobbed in 1947.

 

He'd worked for United Counties prior to the outbreak of hostilities and had served in the Army in Europe driving trucks. He returned home to his family in Kettering and started working for United Counties again.

 

Fred and Doris enjoy one anothers company and particularly like the country routes on the eastern side of the county passing beautiful villages, some once home to hundreds of young American airman-the skies no longer angry with the sound of USAAF B17's.

 

Along the route from Kettering to Oundle they pass the ironstone quarries around Cranford and pick up some quarry workers. Usually Fred and Dorris get a chance of a Woodbine and a cup of tea in Oundle prior to making their way back to Kettering.

 

Here's Fred and Doris' bus they use for this journey. It's a Bedford OWB that has seen better days and the timber the body was built with is beginning to warp badly because it wasn't seasoned properly during the war years.

 

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Ok so a total work of fiction as is the bus which is a resprayed Oxford product with decals from Fox. Fred, Doris and the passengers come courtesy of Dapol (ex-Airfix) with a few amputations where necessary.

 

I've tried to use the preshading technique on this bus using either Tamiya or Valejjo acrylics sealed with some Johnsons Klear.

 

In fairness United Counties did have some Beagle bodied OB's in their fleet. However, there's something about the OWB I like and decided to go for this fictitious member of the fleet.

 

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Also another vehicle to make an appearance on JH will be this Base Toys or what ever they're called now AEC Monarch which I think is a lovely model in Pickfords livery. It comes with a trailer as well. I've used Glue n Glaze for the windows, Weathered it and added a sheeted load to the flat bed. Like the OWB I gently placed the finished model on an hot iron for a matter of seconds to gently flatten the tyres. Something I learnt from my aircraft modelling days.

 

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Cheers,

 

Mark

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lyndons dad's a Desborough lad.......

 

That'll be Ar Tarn then! :D

 

Those buses must have been early ones?  Not the Number 19 service to Kettering ;)

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Those were the days when,if your name wasn't Coe,Marlow or Panter you weren't an Ar Tarna and Kettering was Ketrin, their residents known as Little Londoners!

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Blimey Mark I didn't recognise you from the avatar.Excellent work as usual.

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Blimey Mark I didn't recognise you from the avatar.Excellent work as usual.

 

Thanks Robin. Yes, the avatar keeps changing at the mo. Bit undecided as to what to go for. In the meantime we have Jaques Laffite F1 driver from the 70's/80's.

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Thanks Robin. Yes, the avatar keeps changing at the mo. Bit undecided as to what to go for. In the meantime we have Jaques Laffite F1 driver from the 70's/80's.

... or Jack Lafferty to his friends. I'll be keeping an eye out for period F1 cars sneaking into your road vehicle fleet.

 

Regards, Andy

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... or Jack Lafferty to his friends. I'll be keeping an eye out for period F1 cars sneaking into your road vehicle fleet.

 

Regards, Andy

 

Thanks Andy. Yes, I can see a GITANES sponsored Ligier appearing in Juniper Hill. Wonder if there's a OO/HO version available? :D

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Thanks Andy. Yes, I can see a GITANES sponsored Ligier appearing in Juniper Hill. Wonder if there's a OO/HO version available? :D

 

That would be one with the wheels set slightly further inboard than the P4 version would it?

 

Sorry, couldn't resist that one ;)

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Good to see you back posting again Mark.

 

Lovely work there and attention to detail :good:

 

See you managed to fire up the hot iron for a short while too...is that your soldering iron or have your clothes got Pirelli stains on them now :lol:

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That would be one with the wheels set slightly further inboard than the P4 version would it?

 

Sorry, couldn't resist that one ;)

 

Class! :)

 

Will it need a finecale chassis and compensating then? :D

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See you managed to fire up the hot iron for a short while too...is that your soldering iron or have your clothes got Pirelli stains on them now :lol:

 

Blimey Pete! You're on the ball! :D Walked straight into that one didn't I? ;)

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