Blog- Northall - Cars in Northall

RSS Fetcher · November 29, 2015

Because of my eye troubles modelling was not good possible, so I did some research on internet about the amount of cars in the 1950’s. As far as I could find out about 1 on the three families had a car at the end of the 1950’s. I decided that for Northall that means that every diorama with three or more buildings/houses should have a car. Until now I had concentrated me on the British Railways road cars. Only in Bridge Street and Nice street, which are larger diorama’s, I placed a car. I wanted to try out the use of a car also in my smaller diorama’s Station Road and Caroline Street. I also spent of lot of time in the research of what models could be used. There is a lot information available on this subject. The period of building, the changes made and the colours the cars were made in for instance. For OO gauge not all information is usable. Because Northall is places somewhere in Greater London I decided to give the cars also registration numbers that were used in Greater London. For Northall the area code for London North East (Middlesex to 1963) will be used. To create the car numbers, I made use of the ‘Vintage Car registration’ texture of ModelrailwayScenery. In station road I place an Austin A30 A2S4 2 door Deluxe, built in 1959 in Chelsea grey with mid blue roof. The registration number: KMD 302. The car belongs to Harry Wild a reporter of the Northall Gazette. I painted the roof of the car myself. For Caroline Street I used an Austin A35 4 door Deluxe, built in 1959 in County Cream. The registration number: KMM 302. The car belongs to Charles Bishop, a commercial traveller who lives on number 3. When I put the cars in the diorama’s I noticed that they were very shiny. So I gave both cars a coat of mat varnish. So, maybe, you will see more cars in my diorama’s in the future. Kind regards, Job<div id='attach_wrap' class='rounded clearfix'>

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