Kensington Olympia in n scale

[acg5324]

 Not much done on the layout as it’s been a busy weekend.

I’ve just ordered some vehicles from N Tastic  as well as a sheet of etched hand wheels for the N Trak Chemical works.

 

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My copies of The West London Line arrived this week. …..a few sample pages included……you don’t get the thumb by the way!

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The Chemical works on the T Trak module is coming along nicely.

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A busy weekend away in Manchester with Mrs G has just passed. Single 3 car 185 from York to Manchester Victoria rammed to the gunnels. Fortunately we had reserved seats.  Premier Inn at Media City very good…and cheap. £6.80 weekend all network tram ticket (1800 Friday to close of service Sunday) a proper bargain. We went to Crosby to see the Anthony Gormley installation on the beach…..a Norwich to Liverpool train 2x2 class 158 absolutely jam packed full…..37 year of working for BR and commuting paid off and we managed to get seats. A trip to Bury for the ELR 37109 was on one circuit but we had a 56xx tank then City of Wells for the round trip. Good meat and potato pie on the railway too.

Edited September 27, 2022 by acg5324

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Today a set of scalelink etched valve wheels arrived along with an order from N tastic scale models.

Four Mk2 Transit chassis cabs which will be a load for a carflat, A Mk2 LWB Transit Van, plus a Commer emergency support vehicle which will become a mobile generator for the film crew scenario.

Edited September 27, 2022 by acg5324

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After getting back from Manchester yesterday we were due to play the charity quiz in our local curry house The Parvin. We won again, two bottles of wine and a box of chocolates….but the star prize was we were offered a bucket…..yes a bucket of Sag Aloo to take home……couldn’t say no. This has been decanted into 10 takeaway boxes and some have gone to the other team members who wanted some……only 7 left for our freezer!

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Had to time to clean up one of the Transit chassis cabs today and give the parts a spray of primer. Steering wheel to add.

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After an Interweb trawl this evening I’ve found from photos that the chassis was painted the same colour as the body. So it’s masking up time to respray or hand paint the chassis members.

The only alteration I’ve made to the 3D model is to add a prop shaft as that will be visible through the chassis members.

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The Transit chassis cab has now gained a top coat, the Film Generator unit has also gained top coats. The cab will be repainted dark brown though, as that appears to be the colour from this picture.https://flic.kr/p/eEwwcj

Different type of truck of course.

The only unpainted vehicle is the LWB Transit.

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The Commer C van cab has now been resprayed brown, details and decals added. Just the front windscreen to cut and fit and a wee bit of weathering.

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Bit of a dull day today weather wise. I was going to tidy up the railway room but that can wait for another day. Instead I got the tiled roof on the backstreet garage and added the chimney pots to that block of buildings and the Hand and Flowers block.

[branchie]

That's crackin' modelling. It really is (claps hands)

[acg5324]

The Commer truck is now complete with windscreen. I managed to drop the cab whilst attempting to put the windscreen in. Resin being what it is, the wheel arch broke off. Fortunately I found it and it was a nice clean break that superglued back on without issue.

[grahame]

Nice job with the windscreen.

 

[acg5324]

51 minutes ago, grahame said:

Nice job with the windscreen.

 

Thanks Grahame, looks even better now as I’ve used a UniPin brush pen to outline the window in black, loosing the cut lines.

[03060]

13 hours ago, acg5324 said:

Thanks Grahame, looks even better now as I’ve used a UniPin brush pen to outline the window in black, loosing the cut lines.

 

Any chance of an updated photo, please, Andy ?

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2 hours ago, 03060 said:

 

Any chance of an updated photo, please, Andy ?

Here we go….

[St Enodoc]

10 minutes ago, acg5324 said:

Here we go….

That makes a huge difference.

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The Ntastic Ford Transit chassis cabs are coming along. Two have windscreens cut and attached, the other two are next to do. As the chassis are missing the rear bar that has the tail lights and indicators attached I will need to make them. Carflat needs weathering too.

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All four chassis cabs now complete and tail light bar added. That leaves me with just the LWB transit to complete.

[Calnefoxile]

Looking good Andy.

 

What did you use for glazing??

 

I've got a load of Richards vehicles to do.

 

Cheers

 

Neal.

[acg5324]

1 hour ago, Calnefoxile said:

Looking good Andy.

 

What did you use for glazing??

 

I've got a load of Richards vehicles to do.

 

Cheers

 

Neal.

Thanks Neal

The windscreen is just some plasticard, one was done with an odd bit of 20 thou that I had left, the rest are from a sheet of 10 thou. Prefer the thicker 20thou. It’s just been trimmed and sanded to shape and fitted with Kristal Klear. Side and rear windows are just Kristal Klear.

Edited October 7, 2022 by acg5324

[Steven B]

Do you want some more to do? 😀

 

Steven B.

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8 minutes ago, Steven B said:

Do you want some more to do? 😀

 

Steven B.

Let me think about that……..😂

No short cuts with cutting windscreens, just a necessary pain isn’t it?

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RedAndy767 prints 3D vehicles, many of which grace KPA. He has produced a 2 door Vauxhall Viva HC in the past and has now progressed to the 4 door version. These were the first two cars I owned after I passed my driving test. RMD183L which was British Racing (Conifer) Green with a black vinyl roof, followed by BWV83T a (Polar) white one with blue vinyl roof…..class!

I have two unpainted models enroute to become these two cars.

Edited October 9, 2022 by acg5324