Kensington Olympia in n scale

[acg5324]

3 hours ago, nest said:

Exhibitions you say...? 

 

Not quite yet Nestor........

Edited March 11, 2021 by acg5324

[acg5324]

Had a delivery from Shapeways today.....from L to R

Rear Scania 110 cabs,  traffic lights, Ford Cargo.

Front Aston Martin DB5, Mitsubishi Galant, VW Polo and Citroen BX.

[Carl]

They look great, how do you go about glazing them?

[grahame]

I bet that little lot didn't come cheap . . . .

;-)

 

I had a smaller package arrive this morning. Some fencing (Ratio spearpoint and Atlas hairpin types) from Model Scenery Supplies.

 

[acg5324]

1 hour ago, Carl said:

They look great, how do you go about glazing them?

The cars, well the RailNscale ones.....I use the Microclear liquid even for windscreens. Grahame uses plasticard for the windscreens.

The truck cabs will get plasticard windscreens and Microclear for the smaller windows. I used Microclear on the bus shelter a few posts back.

[acg5324]

1 hour ago, grahame said:

I bet that little lot didn't come cheap . . . .

;-)

 

I had a smaller package arrive this morning. Some fencing (Ratio spearpoint and Atlas hairpin types) from Model Scenery Supplies.

 

Errr no....and £16 postage! Did get here a day earlier than expected. UPS.....the delivery driver thought I’d got a box of air it was so light.

[acg5324]

6 hours ago, nest said:

Exhibitions you say...? 

 

Psssttt! You’ve got the old web address as your signature.

[nest]

13 minutes ago, acg5324 said:

Psssttt! You’ve got the old web address as your signature.

That just shows how often I post on here there days... 

 

Will change accordingly sir! 

 

Nestor  

[cornish trains jez]

I had some stuff delivered from shapeways the other day and got clobbered with the duty tax which I had to pay before they would deliver it from their depot in the UK.

 

 

[acg5324]

36 minutes ago, cornish trains jez said:

I had some stuff delivered from shapeways the other day and got clobbered with the duty tax which I had to pay before they would deliver it from their depot in the UK.

 

 

I had nothing to pay. Came via UPS.

[acg5324]

Well another week has passed by in limbo land. Not much achieved on the layout as I managed to have an adverse reaction to something ( probably in the garden ) that meant I have not been able to bend my fingers much and have swollen hands. It’s slowly getting better. 

 

I did did manage to hook up my Utility throttle so that today I had two trains running independently. Class 50 and 31 both with sound........noisy.

At the same time I’ve got the programming track powered up which makes life a lot easier.

 

Edited March 19, 2021 by acg5324

[St Enodoc]

3 hours ago, acg5324 said:

Well another week has passed by in limbo land. Not much achieved on the layout as I managed to have an adverse reaction to something ( probably in the garden ) that meant I have not been able to bend my fingers much and have swollen hands. It’s slowly getting better. 

 

I did did manage to hook up my Utility throttle so that today I had two trains running independently. Class 50 and 31 both with sound........noisy.

At the same time I’ve got the programming track powered up which makes life a lot easier.

 

Stick to model railways. Much safer than gardening.

[acg5324]

I’ve got my stunt double to do the gardening this week so I’ve cut out some frames for the next batch of buildings. The shops next to the Hand and Flowers plus part of the Olympia complex on the other side of the road....now a Pizza Express!

[acg5324]

The 3D printed traffic lights are part painted some with filter lights added and I’ve made up some traffic bollards. They are part of the Scalescenes roadway download wrapped around an Evergreen plastic square section.

[acg5324]

Got the corner block of the Olympia complex built today. It’s had a coat of grey then white primer. I’ll find an off white for the finishing coat. Doors, windows etc to be fitted yet.

 

[acg5324]

Got a bit more done today with the Olympia buildings.

[Duncan.]

Nice work on the buildings Andy... as ever.

What materials have you used for the olympia building? Is it to scale or to fit location?

Cheers

Duncan

[acg5324]

2 hours ago, Duncan. said:

Nice work on the buildings Andy... as ever.

What materials have you used for the olympia building? Is it to scale or to fit location?

Cheers

Duncan

Thank you Duncan.

 

It’s a mountboard frame with plasticard frontage. The building is “based” on what’s there but shrunk to fit and very much simplified. The block on the corner is the most accurate as it will be properly visible. The rest mainly faces the operator. I’ll post a picture of the real building shortly.

[acg5324]

This is progress so far today and some Streetview images of the real building.......latest version has the road handily dug up in front!

[acg5324]

Today we were up earlier than usual as Mrs G had her first chip fitting injection at 0835. A quick whizz round the York  ring road ( ha ha.....) and the A64 we were at Askham Bar by 0810 and back on road before 0830. As a treat we went home via Waitrose. Mrs G got some sushi for lunch.....I got some beer.

 

The sushi was a nice lunch.

Edited March 25, 2021 by acg5324

[acg5324]

A prompt popped up on FB that it was 10 years since this album was released....seemed rude not to have it blasting out of the Hi Fi today. Note the cracks in the CD case....does anyone have a CD case that hasn’t got a crack in it somewhere.

 

Strange story about my introduction to Within Temptation. I first came across them as a customers who bought this also bought this on Amazon. So I sent off for it, ......superb album, I’d never heard of the group.

One night shift in Control I was the playing the album and my Fleet Controller noticed it. “Is that the new album from WT?” he asked. Yes I said do you know of them? Got all their albums he said! We later found one of the Network Rail duty managers was a big fan too.

 

 

Edited March 25, 2021 by acg5324

[acg5324]

The next part of the Olympia building is now complete, pending painting and windows etc. It’s had a coat of grey then white primer. The only other bit of Olympia that will get built is part of the car park building which is opposite the station building.

[St Enodoc]

10 hours ago, acg5324 said:

The sushi was a nice lunch.

I'd have stuck with the beer.

[cornish trains jez]

22 hours ago, acg5324 said:

Today we were up earlier than usual as Mrs G had her first chip fitting injection at 0835. A quick whizz round the York  ring road ( ha ha.....) and the A64 we were at Askham Bar by 0810 and back on road before 0830. As a treat we went home via Waitrose. Mrs G got some sushi for lunch.....I got some beer.

 

The sushi was a nice lunch.

 

Nice selection! The Dark Star Hop Head is a favourite of mine, which is generally available on tap at the pub a few doors up from my office....when it's open of course!

 

 Best regards,

 

Jeremy

 

[acg5324]

23 minutes ago, cornish trains jez said:

 

Nice selection! The Dark Star Hop Head is a favourite of mine, which is generally available on tap at the pub a few doors up from my office....when it's open of course!

 

 Best regards,

 

Jeremy

 

Waitrose seems to have started stocking Dark Star recently...might have something to do with them being owned by Fullers? now.......just need to get them to stock Harvey’s!