Porkscratching Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 They did a fine job...'ere can you make the letters match the paint on the doors mate..! " 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed1234 Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 Those windows look superb - the shadows and the perspective they give are excellent. I had a look back at your earlier construction posts for this building but didn't see any details - they just magically appeared in the post where you kindly explained the wooden door. Would you mind explaining a little about how you made them / where they're from, particularly the transparencies? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted July 1, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Porkscratching said: They did a fine job...'ere can you make the letters match the paint on the doors mate..! " Hi, it was something that I thought about, but as the lettering is so small I didn't bother, but just for you I had a go at it and this is the result tell me what you all think it would be easy to replace. All the best Adrian. 11 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkscratching Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 Brilliant!...The doors have such lovely peeling paint, be a shame not to have the lettering to suit! Ad hoardings great too, very well do I remember the "glass and a half" in every bar of cadbury's !! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted July 1, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 1, 2019 Brilliant work Adrian, looks really good. Could you cut away the judas gate and set it back into the main door as the prototype is? Al. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted July 1, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Alister_G said: Brilliant work Adrian, looks really good. Could you cut away the judas gate and set it back into the main door as the prototype is? Al. Hi Al, just when I put my feet up after all that sign writing. I have just got the washing in for Mrs W Station, put the bins out, cooked the tea, washed up, mowed the lawn, weeded the garden, fixed the flush on the toilet. and its not half passed six yet. now you want me to change the blooming door can you not let a poor old age pensioner have a rest, But seeing as it's you Al and it would give depth to the door it shall be done, maybe not this week but it will be done. All the rest Adrian. 2 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkscratching Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 Blimey guvnor' sounds like you need a light an' bitter.... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 Great stuff Adrian, I do like the buildings you've built. Wish I'd used that brickwork on my layout, I went for London yellow brick but that brickwork looks a lot more grimy. Steve. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post westerhamstation Posted July 2, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted July 2, 2019 18 hours ago, ed1234 said: Those windows look superb - the shadows and the perspective they give are excellent. I had a look back at your earlier construction posts for this building but didn't see any details - they just magically appeared in the post where you kindly explained the wooden door. Would you mind explaining a little about how you made them / where they're from, particularly the transparencies? Hi Ed 1234, thank you for your comments, the windows in this building are from the Scalescenes low relief factory TO27 and I printed them out using a domestic laser printer onto clear film. they are positioned onto the back of the card with a bit of tape to get them in the correct position, then fixed with gel superglue. The finished wall is mounted away from the carcass of the building by about 5mm, the carcass wall is covered with a suitable random pattern to represent the interior. I hope this is of some help. I have shown some pictures of other builds using this method. All the best Adrian. 12 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post westerhamstation Posted July 11, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted July 11, 2019 (edited) The All Clear has sounded over Ewer Street, thanks to a very kind gift of a Air Raid Siren from fellow RMwebber Tony Teague. This has spurred me on to make this blast proof fire watchers point. Having just read the book Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, it has made me wonder if the Acme Engineering Company was more than a simple manufacturing concern and looking at the construction of the fire watchers point made out of reinforced concrete with a blast proof door made me wonder if the roof could withstand a direct hit, so to this end 6kilos of steel bars were hauled up onto the roof and it was found that the roof and indeed the whole building was of bomb proof construction, So was this indeed a place where people like Colin Gubbins, Cecil Clarke and others worked on their inventions during WW2 I would like to think so. Some pictures of construction and thank you Tony for the siren. If you click on the link below and then open it will play the all clear. All the best (looking for my tin helmet) AdrianAll Clear 12.mp3 Edited July 11, 2019 by westerhamstation 17 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony Teague Posted July 11, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 11, 2019 Excellent Adrian - glad you were able to put it to good use! Tony 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigherb Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 You need an air raid shelter sign, still around Southwark even now. 7 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigherb Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 And an emergency water supply sign. 8 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted July 11, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 11, 2019 The sirens were definitely still in place on lineside sites when I commuted daily to CX, although whether until I quit in 2004 I can't be certain. Good idea though, and highly authentic. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Anotheran Posted July 11, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 11, 2019 2 hours ago, bigherb said: You need an air raid shelter sign, still around Southwark even now. That one has been repainted between the flickr photo (2013) and the current Google Streetview shot of 2018... Mind you, the street as a whole has been done up a lot as well. But it's good to see the history of the wall markings being preserved, even if it's no longer the original paint. Kind regards, Neil 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkscratching Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 The fire watching post looks brilliant! ...But those bloomin' Huns must be contravening the Geneva convention dropping those enormous brick like things on a civilian area..the b'stards.. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkscratching Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 (edited) PS here's a couple of shelter signs I photographed in deptford still in fairly good order last year ( there's even a railway bridge in the background !) Both were a few mins walk from each other so obviously a hot spot back then.. I notice the top one must be same location as Bigherb etc posted, the area refurbed and the window made into a door, tho keeping the art deco top fortunately! Edited July 12, 2019 by Porkscratching 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted July 12, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 12, 2019 (edited) Thank you all for your pictures and suggestions, also your like etc, this has given me some food for thought and some research to do though it looks like you have done most of it for me there is space for a water tank at the side of the Acme Engineering Works and the arch wall along the narrow road will be a good place for the air raid shelter sign. Must go the siren has gone off again, or is that Mrs W Station telling me to get off the laptop and do some chores All the best Adrian. Edited July 12, 2019 by westerhamstation 5 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkscratching Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Make sure you and the Mrs take your gas masks with you mind.. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigherb Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Another bit of history, anybody guesses what the railings opposite the EWS sign are made from. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold lezz01 Posted July 12, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 12, 2019 Hi. When I was a lad growing up just outside Bletchley in the 60's. They used to test the air raid sirens every Thursday afternoon by sounding the all clear. It always made mum jumpy. Understandably when you consider she was bombed out of 2 houses in east London, one in Goodmayes and the other in Chadwell Heath, during the blitz and chased down the Mile End Rd by a buzzbomb. I kind of dismissed this but I've since seen photos of the V1 in question as it didn't explode and caused quite a stir at the time. I can't recall when they stopped testing the sirens but it must have been sometime in the 70's. Fast forward to the 80's I was stationed in Menden West Germany and they still tested the sirens every Saturday at noon which, coincidentally, was when the shops closed in town. Regards Lez.Z. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold lezz01 Posted July 12, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 12, 2019 1 minute ago, bigherb said: Another bit of history, anybody guesses what the railings opposite the EWS sign are made from. At a guess I would say bed frames from air raid shelters. Regards Lez.Z. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigherb Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 4 minutes ago, lezz01 said: At a guess I would say bed frames from air raid shelters. Regards Lez.Z. Close. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkscratching Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Railings made from ARP stretchers... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted July 12, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 12, 2019 (edited) This article is interesting and also has the answer. http://blitzwalkers.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-still-remains.html I was only reading it this morning. All the best Adrian. Edited July 12, 2019 by westerhamstation 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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