Kensington Olympia in n scale

[St Enodoc]

1 hour ago, acg5324 said:

I got on quite well today and got all the walls attached, chimneys built along with the roof access. I have produced the signage for The Bricklayers Arms but I won’t attach it until I weather the brickwork. Chimney pots to add along with the troughs for the drain pipes which I forgot to add.

 

 

Looks good Andy but the roofs seem a bit plain/bland. Would there have been some joint lines or something to break up the expanse of grey flatness a bit?

[acg5324]

On 02/11/2020 at 15:41, grahame said:

Whose chimney pots are you using? Several look like GC2 terminals (usually indicating a BBU in the fireplace).

 

I like the road name boards.

 

 

 

 

I forgot to ask at the time Grahame......what’s a BBU or a GC2?

[acg5324]

11 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Looks good Andy but the roofs seem a bit plain/bland. Would there have been some joint lines or something to break up the expanse of grey flatness a bit?

Yes you are probably right John, it won’t take much to put some paper strips on the roof and a less uniform colour, needs weathering anyway. Should get that finished today as I’m furloughed again.

[grahame]

52 minutes ago, acg5324 said:

I forgot to ask at the time Grahame......what’s a BBU or a GC2?

 

Back Boiler Unit (combined central heating boiler and fire front unit) that is fitted in a fireplace. Once popular but now no longer made and installed being an open flued appliance and inefficient (not condensing).

GC2 is a type of flue terminal like a chimney pot that is fitted to the chimney liner at the top of the stack.

https://www.aboutroofing.com/clay-gc2-gas-flue-chimney-terminal-185mm-spigot-red-buff-glazed-blueblack.html?aid=5350&msclkid=b6c58de1fe561b492efdd244f0cde151&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=S - Shopping&utm_term=4583382953515204&utm_content=Ad group %231#clayware_colour=1288

 

Edited November 6, 2020 by grahame

[roythebus]

On 27/10/2020 at 17:12, acg5324 said:

A miserable day weather wise here, so with floodlights blazing I got on with the town houses. One block complete except trimmings. The second block just needs the porches adding. The third block is going to gain ground floor shops. I wanted to make it a brick frontage rather than rendered but don’t know how to add the texture to a scanned picture so it’s the long way round. Cut out the windows and add brick paper. I’ve also resized the Scalescenes shop fronts I have to add at ground floor level. They need a little adjustment width wise as they are about 8mm to short......Something to do this evening.

Knowing how that area has gone up in the world, would they have Porches or Mercedes outside their front doors?

[acg5324]

2 hours ago, grahame said:

 

Back Boiler Unit (combined central heating boiler and fire front unit) that is fitted in a fireplace. Once popular but now no longer made and installed being an open flued appliance and inefficient (not condensing).

GC2 is a type of flue terminal like a chimney pot that is fitted to the chimney liner at the top of the stack.

https://www.aboutroofing.com/clay-gc2-gas-flue-chimney-terminal-185mm-spigot-red-buff-glazed-blueblack.html?aid=5350&msclkid=b6c58de1fe561b492efdd244f0cde151&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=S - Shopping&utm_term=4583382953515204&utm_content=Ad group %231#clayware_colour=1288

 

My parents had a  solid fuel fire with back boiler to run the central heating.....installed new in 1974.

[acg5324]

2 hours ago, roythebus said:

Knowing how that area has gone up in the world, would they have Porches or Mercedes outside their front doors?

Very definitely now, although the cleaner and nanny will have something more lowly. Back in the 80s it wasn’t the area it is now.

[acg5324]

Signage and chimneys fitted and the first weathering, I’ve added some paper strip to the roof to give the impression of joins and patches in the flat roof.

 

[Duncan.]

Andy you are making the construction of all these buildings look too easy. There is a lot of work involved and you are making a great job of it, impressive.

Cheers

Duncan

Edited November 6, 2020 by Duncan.
typo

[acg5324]

1 hour ago, Duncan. said:

Andy you are making the construction of all these buildings look too easy. There is a lot of work involved and you are making a great job of it, impressive.

Cheers

Duncan

Thanks Duncan. 

 

Once the town houses and shops are completed I’ll either make a start on Russell Gardens Mews...

....err Mews houses.......or I’ll go for pub No3 The Hand and Flower, a much more complex building than the other pubs.

[St Enodoc]

10 hours ago, acg5324 said:

Signage and chimneys fitted and the first weathering, I’ve added some paper strip to the roof to give the impression of joins and patches in the flat roof.

 

Ah, that looks more like it! Good stuff.

[acg5324]

A very grey Misty day in York which, unlike yesterday, hasn’t turned into a lovely sunny autumnal afternoon....so some more modelling!

 

Half the row of shops now have an interior. It’s at the back of the baseboard but is visible through a side street so needed something other than empty windows.

 

A start made on a couple of the Mews houses. Russell Gardens Mews in real life is nearly dead straight and quite long. My version is on a 90 degree bend and will be quite short.

 

First buildings, just the frames, are those next to The Bricklayers Arms. I have some nice double wooden garage doors made by York Modelmaking which will fit these nicely.......but Mek Pak won’t touch them. A check on the website says they need Plastic weld to glue them which I don’t have. Oh well they’ll be an empty hole in the wall for them for a while.

[acg5324]

The other shops gained their interiors today and a start has been made on cutting walls out for the first Mews.

 

[acg5324]

Another grey day...doesn’t help with n gauge!

Got on well with the first of the Mews. This butts up against The Bricklayers Arms. Not too many cock ups...so far.

Edited November 9, 2020 by acg5324

[acg5324]

A small delivery arrived today...a MK2c TSO from Electra Rail, this will give a bit of variety in the Mk2 fleet. I have a Mk2b BFK to fit as well.

[acg5324]

Not much progress today as I had my first lockdown DIY job to do for this lockdown......Mrs G has been complaining that she can’t see in the mirror in the downstairs toilet...... I knew I should have put it on the wall!!!!

She’s only 5ft 3 tall and because the mirror is mounted above the tiles the bottom of it is at about 5ft 2 off the floor. Today I’ve removed the mirror and extended the tiling to the ceiling so that the mirror can be refitted lower down.

Edited November 11, 2020 by acg5324

[acg5324]

Managed to cut out and fit out the remaining wall of the Mews house.

 

Edited November 10, 2020 by acg5324

[LongRail]

Andy you should have brought one of those fold up plastic steps to save the tiling and lowering the mirror to be able to spend more time modelling never mind, next time

[Nick Gough]

Or this would have been a really thoughtful Christmas present:

http://stiltwalkers.uk/stilt-walking-workshops.html

[acg5324]

4 hours ago, Nick Gough said:

Or this would have been a really thoughtful Christmas present:

http://stiltwalkers.uk/stilt-walking-workshops.html

I possibly wouldn’t be able to sit down for Christmas dinner afterwards. 

[acg5324]

Thought I’d have to go and try and match the grout colour at B and Q but found the tail end of the previous bag in the garage with enough in it to finish the job!

 

That’s one job off the list.

Edited November 11, 2020 by acg5324

[acg5324]

Other than a bit of weathering I finished the first of the Mews houses and made a start on number two.

The double doors are in my mind far to big scaling out at about 13ft so I think I’m going to block off the hole and build some smaller ones. 

[Calnefoxile]

14 hours ago, acg5324 said:

Other than a bit of weathering I finished the first of the Mews houses and made a start on number two.

The double doors are in my mind far to big scaling out at about 13ft so I think I’m going to block off the hole and build some smaller ones. 

 

The Double doors may well be that tall, depending on what they were originally built for, if they were built for a a private Horse Carriage, then 13ft is about right if you include the driver.

 

Otherwise great modelling as always.

 

Cheers

 

Neal

[acg5324]

A Red Cross parcel arrived from the NGS at lunchtime.......it’ll make a change from a diet of buildings.

[acg5324]

The second Mews is now largely done bar the roof and weathering. The large doors look much better smaller! In Russell Gardens Mews there is still an old fashioned back street garage doing services and MOTs I’ll use the bigger doors there.