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Roof shaping up Roof at the back still to shape up, and I'm thinking of some kind of spire/cupola on the corner and perhaps some ornamental dormers.

Thanks, Tatty. Yes lots of work to do on the roof, including tying those gables to the main roof.

Wellington chambers has had a coat of grey and the windows have been installed. Now got to work out the roof.

Well just had payment taken for the first of two full sets that I had on pre-order

Allan Downes used to use wood stain to great effect. might be a vid on YouTube

I've seen this used before and it's impressive enough for what you're thinking of

Like others I applaud his decision to make the diagnosis public, wish his majesty well with his treatment and a speedy recovery and wish the press would leave him and his family alone and stop the endless and fruitless speculation!

Upgrades of their Collett sunshine stock would fill a whole. I'm not expecting concertinas or dreadnoughts welcome as those would be, but as the Dapol toplights when we get them will be the steel plated type, they could still do the earlier panelled varieties

According to Wikipedia and I am sure I've read it on a thread here, when the blue/grey livery was first introduced underframes were painted brown, later changed to black

I had £3.50 taken from my account for an alleged Amazon prime account I don't have. Alerted the bank, they agreed it was fraud refunded me and cancelled my bank card. My partner has money taken from his account on the basis he'd paid for something on his phone. Bank useless and phone company useless. So we told his phone company to ban such purchases through our phones. Hasn't happened again

As said above trackside is Keighley on the KWVR. The station forecourt was filmed at Kidderminster on the SVR.

Safe bet they'll be no upgraded GWR coaching stock

You are right, I'd forgotten.

As I recall there was the veteran four wheeler, and a brake and a composite for each of the big four. The GWR was based on Collett 57 footers with a dining car. The Southern was the GWR coaches painted green and a different roof. The LNER were some distorted gresley coach stock plus a sleeper. The lms were stanier 57 footers using the GWR underframe or vice versa. The BRITISH rail stock were a selection of Mk 1 and after 78 some mk 3. Any mk 2s came from airfix

Lady Justice arrived today. She is 3D printed from Shapeways from a royalty free source found online. So I take no credit for the design. The cost was extortionate. A tenner for the print (not bad), thirty quid for the packing and postage! Don't tell the other half. The scales needed repair but given how delicate there are I'm not surprised. So now the roof and skylights to do

So little bit different, working on Mother Kibri kitbash. Almost at the stage where I have used all the kit parts I want to on this one. This was the original kit Five of them collected over several years give this Haven't decided if this will be shops with a hotel above or offices. But definitely shops at ground floor. Will design something up and get it 3d printed for the shop fronts. A lot of attention needs to be given to the roof, so plenty of pyramids/pavilion rooves and chimneys to give that high Victorian look.

Nice work, but don't forget that mortar was sometimes tinted and rather than having darkened with age, it started out that colour.

Of course no court building would be complete without the royal coat of arms. This one is a former warrant officers cap badge I believe bought off a certain online auction site. It's perhaps a little on the large side buts fits nicely above the main door. My fine detail painting has never been brilliant, I tend to rely on a broad brush approach and a layer of dirt to cover up the worst of it. But from a distance and in the gloom under the pediment I think I get away with it.

I look at realism in two ways, there are those layouts which are accurate down to the last rivet which I admire greatly but could never aspire to, and then there are those layouts which don't attempt to that level of detail but manage to capture the atmosphere of the real thing. The mind/eye can be very forgiving

The model shop I go in most frequently, the very excellent Footplate in Kidderminster, has plenty of coaches in stock from Hornby so if not in the current catalogue coaches are still available!

Hundred years of grimy midlands soot added. Has helped to bring out the details on the lions

Michael, I found someone on eBay. He was quite happy to make them a little bigger than advertised on his posting and without the base.

Lions arrived today, so couldn't resist posting a few photos. Bit amorphous but will do as limestone statues that have suffered the pollution of the local climate for a hundred years

Suppose it's possible that Hattons could sell on the rights/moulds for their Genesis coaches

Yes I'm aware of goods stock, but never heard of it in relation to passenger carrying stock