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    Fork lifts

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    Welcome to the first posting on my new workbench blog. Basically I'm repeating the last entry on my DRT workbench thread from the old RMweb forum. And it all about fork lifts and in paticular the 1980s fork lift from GHQ. It's very finely moulded in pewter and more detailed than the old British white metal versions I have. Even at the American 1:160 scale it's height is exactly the same as the so called British N gauge ones (presumably 1:148 scale) I have, and is even a little longer so doesn't look at all under scale. It comes with an alternative front part to build it with the forks at high level.
     
    G.
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    I've been adding a little bit of paint, with a very fine brush, to the telephone boxes and fork lifts.
    The boxes have also had STD phones installed in them and the doors are painted and currently drying
    ready to be added.
     
     

     
    G.
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    I visited London Bridge Station today to collect some more pictures of areas and buildings that I have few details of. Things are changing rapidly - there's a big hole in the ground and some of the steel structual skeleton of the Shard has already appeared. The concourse roof has been cut back significantly and Thomas street is closed to traffic along the building site boundary.
     
    One of my intended targets was the small box at the West end of the through platforms and some of the buildings behind the station.
     

     

     
    However I was approached by a jobsworth on one platform and told that I wasn't allowed to take photos. When I countered that I was allowed he changed tack and said that I needed an identity card from Network Rail. I said I'm not a commercial photographer so it wasn't necessary and showed him a print-out of the Transport Police's website with the details. He didn't seem very convinced but wandered off rather confused before I could explain that the same information was available on Network Rail's website.
     

     
    Fortunately I wasn't further harrassed despite a very large police presence at the station and managed to get all the photographs I wanted. Hopefully they will help me out when I start on building some more of the structures for the project.
     
    G.
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    N gauge LT bus fleet

    By grahame,

    My N gauge LT bus fleet is starting to grow. And with the promised Farish Leyland Nationsl single deckers due (gawd knows when) and the four DMS now on order I'll have a reasonable fleet. There's still work to be done on the DMSs, incliding re-assembly, but they do have a very bland livery with no white or grey stripes to add a bit of relief to the plain all over red. Also correct route numbers and destination blinds don't seem to be available so I'll have to make the most of the limited choice on the ModelMaster sheet as below. The photographic enlargement is certainly very cruel - they seem a lot better from 'normal viewing distance' ;
     
     

     
     

     
     
    It's starting to look a bit better now, although still not finished. I need to source a suitable decal for the side advertising and white LT roundels. Otherwise I'll have to hand paint them like I did on the Routemaster and Metrobus.
     
     

     
     
    G.
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