David Bell

A little progress on the Cunarder tram. The basic body shell has its main colours

Excellent work as always

Cheers

David

59 minutes ago, Legend said:

 

Ahh right , I was wondering how Tenements fitted in .   Is that Killermont Street ?  If I'm right the road entrance to Buchanan St Bus Station would be roughly where these tenements are on the layout . Superb modelling . Typically Glasgow !

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

Here is the tenement in situ on the layout, sitting directly above the tunnel entrance to GQS.

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. 

2 minutes ago, Harry Lund said:

Wonderful modelling David.  Both the tram and the cobbled streets and inset tramways.   Giles

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.

The finished tram

A portent of things to come hopefully. A picture of the unfinished tram on an unfinished street!

A wee bit more detail on the works tram

Meanwhile here is the works tram in its first coat of paint. It will be a reasonable representation of Tool Car No 20.

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

It is starting to look more like a works tram now

I have been hacking the other Leeds tram to form the basis of a works tram

7 hours ago, davknigh said:

Who did the white metal kits? I have fond memories of the Glasgow trams from visiting my grandparents in Paisley. Surely it’s time someone came out with a new model of them (Rapido, Corgi, EFE, et al , are you listening?).

 

Cheers,

 

David

The kits are by Tramalan.

I agree some new models of Glasgow trams would be welcome.

Cheers

David

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

I also cleaned up the castings of a kit for the experimental car no 1100

1 hour ago, Legend said:

 Yes the colours were really pre war. I really don't know the answer to your question but I have seen several post war pictures of standard trams with Queen St in the background and they are all in green .   The tram looks very good .  Only small things i would say are maybe there's a bit too much white . Maybe paint the front brown below the windscreens .  I think also the white might be better as a cream  and perhaps the green should be a touch lighter .  Sorry not being critical - its a pretty good representation of a Glasgow Tram as it is . 

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!

4 hours ago, Dunalastair said:

Which of the original route colours would have served Queen Street / George Square? The colour banding did change with time, so probably historic.

 

https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/history/glasgow-tram-map-stunning-history-16286090

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.6&lat=55.86155&lon=-4.25020&layers=168&b=1

 

also at https://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/46734214652/

 

Looks as if the 1 / 1A green band might be appropriate, at least in 1938.

 

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.

1 hour ago, David Bell said:

This is where we have got to.

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!

3 hours ago, brylonscamel said:

Fantastic colour scheme and you're king of the rattle-can finish!

This is where we have got to.

The tram body splits into three bits and each has had its first colour.

It is already starting to get the Glasgow look!

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!

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