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It’s such a good photo. If you look really close someone’s scrawled ‘Albion’ on the end above the running boards. I’m guessing West Brom from the location. It’s the kind of detail that’d look over done if you actually modelled it!

It’s such a good photo. If you look really close someone’s scrawled ‘Albion’ on the end above the running boards. I’m guessing West Brom from the location. It’s the kind of detail that’d look over done if you actually modelled it!

Thanks. You’d want to be clinging on tight! Here’s the photo I got the idea from. Pretty much capture the whole run-down look I’m going for with the layout. https://www.flickr.com/photos/invader1009/14980528404/in/gallery-91650295@N04-72157645459527451/

On a roll this evening! Some weathering and detailing on an engineers brake van, including coal for the guard’s stove. Some final rain streaking to the roof and frame dirt to chassis and it should be finished.

Some progress on the two OAA wagons; just a bit of final weathering and couplings to fit.

Primer and black under frames from Halfords rattle cans. The rest is various acrylics brushed on with a Tamiya No3 brush. Railmatch, Lifecolour and Vallejo are the main ones I use.

Some more progress on my improved Hornby OAA wagons. Buffers fitted (Lanarkshire Models), air pipes fitted (Replica Railways), first paint coat applied - one is in original railfreight finish with repainted ends, the other will be bauxite. Chassis and wheels given initial dry brush coat of frame dirt.

Sounds very interesting, it would make a great layout. Thanks

They certainly are, just a shame most of the detail will be invisible once they’re on the track!

That’s good to know, thanks.

Chassis primed and look even better. The striped layers in the printed plastic is barely visible. Filling the old buffer holes with milliput (the Hornby ones are too low because the ride height was all wrong).

New project, a pair of old Hornby OAA wagons which were mine as a kid in the 80s. The bodies are pretty good but the chassis is terrible - complete with plastic wheels. I ordered new 3D printed chassis for them from Shapeways. The detail is incredible but they are also incredibly fragile. It’s my first go with something 3D printed so I’ll see how it goes - they look fantastic but we’ll see how robust they are in use.. They even have separate brake callipers which you can fit if your eyesight and hand-eye coordination is better than mine.

Probably twenty years since I’ve been in. Was always painted green that I remember, I was at the art college there in the late nineties, early 2000s. Was a while before I twigged that Mennie’s and The Speedwell were the same place!

Thanks for the heads up, very informative. I was too young to be in pubs in the late eighties! I took the signs from this establishment in Dundee - I wasn’t there till late nineties though. Don’t think it’s changed since then.

Thanks. Certainly one of a few places I used as inspiration. Along with North Junction Street, Easter Road. Also Speedwell Bar in Dundee..

Certainly does! The cigarette smoke hides the worst of the smells though. It’s now a gastropub of course.

And from street level..

Bit more work this evening on the finishing touches of the big tenement. Drainpipes (or rhones as they’re called in Edinburgh), soil pipes, street lamp and beer signs fitted.

Thanks, yes the buses had every second upright removed from between the windows, then had to cut new glazing to shape and fit in. It was a hassle but probably worth the effort in the end. I also had to modify around the engine at the back. The Edinburgh ones seemed to have pillar type bits at each side of the lower back windows. Plasticard and putty took care of that. Expect EFE will release a model of these any time now!

And with the buildings test fitted. Everything seem to fit pretty spot on so happy with that.

There are etched manholes and utility covers.

It’s been about six months with the layout stored in the shed but finally got back to some model work today. Pavements and road surface primed and glued in with the backboard having been painted white.

Aye, that’s absolutely stunning. Different level. The pub interior too. Wow!

Hi Jim, I scratch built them. They’re cobbled together on photoshop from images found on google. Then scaled and printed onto sticky paper labels. The labels are stuck onto suitable wee rectangles of plastic. I could send you a pdf of them if you PM me. Mark

A couple of 80s Scottish pub signs for the tenement. They’re approx. 12 x 9mm.