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  1. David Bell
    A little progress on the Cunarder tram. The basic body shell has its main colours
  2. David Bell
    Excellent work as always Cheers David
  3. David Bell
    It is Parliamentary Road. It is not what was actually there at that point on Parliamentary Road, just a typical tenement. Speaking of bus stations my plan is to have a representation of Dundas Street bus station behind the tenement. Dundas Street Bus Station was a fairly spartan affair, flat ,open to the elements with a low wall round the outside
  4. David Bell
    Here is the tenement in situ on the layout, sitting directly above the tunnel entrance to GQS.
  5. David Bell
    The back is impressive too
  6. David Bell
    The latest masterpiece from Brian has arrived.
  7. David Bell
    The overhead is coming. I will do this bit on Parliamentary Road first, just a straight line. On this section i am going to include a double line for a trolley bus.As you say the section over George Sq will be more of a challenge. Interestingly if you look up in Glasgow you can still see the fixings on some buildings where the tram overhead was fixed.
  8. David Bell
    Thanks Giles. I have been pushing to finish the tram because the tenement (c/o Brian at Braeside Models)that sits on this street arrives this week. I have seen photos of the final model and it is superb! Far better than i could manage.
  9. David Bell
    The finished tram
  10. David Bell
    A portent of things to come hopefully. A picture of the unfinished tram on an unfinished street!
  11. David Bell
    A wee bit more detail on the works tram
  12. David Bell
    Meanwhile here is the works tram in its first coat of paint. It will be a reasonable representation of Tool Car No 20.
  13. David Bell
    Back with the tram I have fabricated the destination blinds box. I used some plastic I girder sanded down on one side and bits of microstrip to make the box
  14. David Bell
    It is starting to look more like a works tram now
  15. David Bell
    I have been hacking the other Leeds tram to form the basis of a works tram
  16. David Bell
    The kits are by Tramalan. I agree some new models of Glasgow trams would be welcome. Cheers David
  17. David Bell
    We are getting there with what I might call the faux Glasgow tram. Also here are the next two off the blocks, the Cunarder and the Kilmarnock Bogie, lots of work to do on both. Cheers David
  18. David Bell
    I also cleaned up the castings of a kit for the experimental car no 1100
  19. David Bell
    Thanks for that, i am pretty happy with it given it can never be an accurate model, just a good quick fix. The white is actually cream but my picture seems to show it up white! I have a more accurate model in the works. An old white metal kit of a Cunarder. I had fogotten how laborious cleaning up white metal castings is!
  20. David Bell
    I have gone with green on the basis that by the fifties they had given up on the route colours and settled on green as a standard.
  21. David Bell
    I need to change the colour of the truck to red oxide rather than black and sort the roof . I had a bit of a disaster with that due to some interaction between paint layers which turned it to orange peel but all not lost! Having taken one of these apart i think i will use the other one to produce a single deck works tram , will require some extensive surgery but i think it will work!
  22. David Bell
    This is where we have got to.
  23. David Bell
    The tram body splits into three bits and each has had its first colour. It is already starting to get the Glasgow look!
  24. David Bell
    Unfortunately some of my cardboard mock ups seem to endure for years. A testament to my butterfly approach to model railways! The cardboard roof is still here!
  25. David Bell
    In the meantime i have started preparing the base for the coach. There will be 14 posts in all, 5 each side and 4 down the middle
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