George Hudson

The internals are from photographs of old phone boxes and I have some basic shapes inside to represent the equipment: no I haven't modelled buttons A and B!

I don't know if Liverpool Street has any phone booths like these but I've always fancied some. Rather cruel magnification exposing my hairy modelling but there you go!

Have a good weekend everybody.

The above mentioned railings are from scalemodelscenery.co.uk. I have no connection with the company other than being a satisfied customer.

And now I am doing some more fun bits...... As said before the concourse is removable for maintenance.

Oh yes, and the end of the roof is nigh.

Evenin' all. When I remember I will credit the manufacturer of these etched barriers which are fantastic. I haven’t stuck them down but was just playing about with locations of gates. I think I’ll have to paint them green and pretend they haven’t had an upgrade since LNER times (or I could paint the steps and walkways blue?). Any views welcome. I am making the concourse as a removable base to ensure easy access for maintenance. The stairs and stationmaster office on stilts are fixed to the base and the barriers mark the border of the removable base section.

Thought I'd add some shots of where I have got to on the roof. Still all the internals to do and of course the more complicated roof of the concourse.

Happy Sunday, I'm certainly having one!

I'm not as talented as those guys building Liverpool Lime Street so I am not going to attempt all the roof girders for the train shed. My solution, which might be useful to people on here, is to build the roof on a 4mm plastic body which should be invisible when the main glass panels are in situ (especially when they are weathered). The girder frame will be only decorative and partly secured on the inner plastic body and hopefully the whole this will be both easy to remove and handle and fairly indestructible. This was just a first look, a lot more to do on those panels yet!

Various attempts at fat post boxes. I could probably have bought something better but I hate buying stuff! John Ahearn and Peter Denny wouldn't have bought them (although they probably couldn't at that time!)

Finally got a dirty brush on the loco fleet (or at least most of it)

Haven't posted for a bit since not a great deal happening unfortunately. I did get a visit from a friend with some rolling stock that I'm coveting!

Every time I go through Ipswich I think: "Someone should model this".

Ha ha! Yep, I'm thinking a bit of plastic tube flattened into an oval will work for that. I already have several small ones made from dowel dotted about the layout.

So continuing the Aldersgate project as an "homage" to Liverpool Street Station, the GER terminus in London. Here's the stationmaster's office on stilts. As almost everything else, it's all from scraps of card.

Yes! And I believe that there was a similar smaller structure which was the stationmaster's office and which I am intending to represent. It will connect to what, in the above photos, looks like a diving board from the higher level currently on the model.

Many Thanks. Yes, that's the inspiration for that part. I have scrunched (technical term) it onto the back of the Great Eastern hotel although in reality I think it was in another part of the station. When I first built the layout in another location it was much longer and incorporated a full oval which went via that "hole".

Just need to dirty them up (or down?) now.

Tricky stuff this plastic, getting the hang of it a little now!

Many thanks, btw, I know it's not quite square yet!

Started work on the walkways and stairs which were a feature of the old Liverpool Street. As can be seen I am kit bashing Ratio platform bridges. This is just the first offering up to get an idea as to what they could look like. I will probably paint them dark blue although in 70s I remember them as red. If not blue then the LNER cream and green would probably be appropriate.