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A nice day at the Yorkshire NGS meeting at weekend saw some more progress on the TWA building. The two blocks are now one. Here are four out of the five walls with most window openings cut. The righthand wall is the Kensington High St side and still needs its ground floor windows etc cut out. Below the last set of windows is road level so it needs to set correctly. The walls propped up on the building. Road level is the first ink line up from the bottom.

Monk Bar models in York had the two green versions and the blue one in stock, no sound ones yet.

This view shows the start of the High Street Kensington side of the building. Other than a couple of long shots I've failed to come up with any other images of its time as the TWA terminal. It does feature in an episode of Minder and an episode of the Profesionals but 99% of the content is inside the building. The only useful thing is that the Minder episode shows that the Russell Rd side of the building the flat roof at 1st floor level looks like it was part of a canopy and it looks like the building has been extended further out under it probably when it became a hotel. I’ve just found the Sweeney Episode, Latin Lady has a sequence outside the Russell Rd entrance. It unfortunately shows that the bit that looks like an extension is exactly that, not even a canopy it’s all new.....! Oh well too far along to go back now so my building will have the extension but now made to look like it was always there. This is sample of the stone effect paint. The small square is neat on to white card, the larger area has been sprayed with grey primer first and think it looks OK. It goes on quite bumpy but when dry its not so pronounced.

Class 25/3 again....... Ferry vans.....take your pick Mk1 BSO and RB / RBR Autic, 3 axle car carrier. Class 47 with sound Mk2a BFK they only have to put a yellow stripe on the BSO and do a new interior. 3H or even more dribbly a 6L

So I see, this blind came off a dual door Atlantean.

I’ve made a start on the Kensington High St side of the building. I’ll get some pics up shortly. On a trip to Wilko’s today I managed to get some stone effect spray paint. I’ve done a test on some grey undercoated card and I’m very pleased with the results, again I’ll get some pics loaded shortly. And finally today I’ve finished framing out the bus blind and it is now illuminated with a 900mm LED tube from Toolstation. It’s starting to look the business....photos to follow.

Oh yes, where I was born. Many rides on the 49 and 49A.

Hangleton, yes. The whole blind is about 15 ft long. includes Brighton station and Portslade station.

As a side project, bus rather than railway related Ive been making a display box for my Brighton Blue buses destination blind. Made from spare 6mm ply some batten and a couple of broom handles from Wilko.....all very high tech. I've also found a nice 3ft LED batten fitting to illuminate it.

Third wall completed. They are just propped up on the building at the moment.

The front walls have had a quick squirt of grey primer, I’m wondering if using a stone effect spray can will give a good finish rather than using loads of Scalescenes pebbledash.

A start has been made on the window cutting out...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz The walls are not yet attached. Whilst it is a very plain looking building it does have a quite complex window and panels arrangement. All the windows on these two wall are cut out and the second layer of panelling added. I think I will give it all a quick coat of grey primer so that any edges that show won't be white.

Floors completed, Yes thank you Grahame for some inspiration.

OK a couple of pics showing progress on the TWA building. This is the Russell Road Frontage. The Kensington High Street frontage will be built afterwards, once Ive worked out how much room I have as I want to include the Bristol Cars showroom. With the second photo spot the deliberate mistake........yes the floor marked top isn't! There is one more to go that I didn't cut out. Well strictly speaking its the roof.......The top floors are only slotted in at the moment so I can use it as a template for the missing floor. There will be some extra supports added for strength.

but also.....what?

I managed to find a few spare mins to do some modelling today. This is the second attempt at the TWA West London terminal ( now the Olympia Hilton hotel ). For a change I’ve gone down the road the Grahame is using for most of his buildings. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/115057-scratch-built-card-and-styrene-structures-based-on-real-buildings/page-21 The frame work of the building has been started using mount board. Walls will be made using the same method covered in Scalescenes concrete / pebbledash. Due to space limitations and to reduce the size of this building compared to the adjacent Georgian terraces I’ve reduced the number of floors on the TWA building. It will also be on a steeper slope than in real life too. I’ll get some photos posted shortly.

It’s less than two weeks until the annual Brighton show. It will include the first showing of the clubs Colmans Hatch layout plus several layouts new to the area. http://www.brightonmrc.com/exhibition.htm Come along and say hello, doors open at 1000 and don’t miss out on the world famous refreshments!

Thank you both for your help. The location has been confirmed elsewhere too. Shame it’s largely gone...although the bus is still with us.

Not yet Jim. It will be on my layout topic eventually. It hasn’t progressed any further yet. scratchbuilt body on a stretched Fleischmann chassis.

DOH! Of course the brushes are on the wrong side, didn’t spot that.

I wonder if any RMweb members are able to help with this image I've recently acquired. I am trying to track down the location in Leeds and a better guess at the date it was taken. The pub behind and the road kill score board are very distictive. The bus was new in 1964 so I guess its going to be winter 1964/5 date wise? It also gives you an excuse to put a Queen Mary on a northern based layout! Thanks in advance

Gutter cleaners were usually LHD so that the driver could see the gutter. They always had a little sign on the back of them. Can’t say that I’ve seen one for a while to see if that’s still the case.

Those wheels look better. I’m going to try and file off the back on the original wheels as I think that was stops the tyre going far enough on the axle. If that doesn’t work I’ll be following your lead.

Finally completed the Cavaliers and Volvos. I got a yellow, orange, red and white paint pen to add to the silver and black. These are very useful for small details like indictaors and brake lights etc.