While the somewhat uninteresting work behind the scenes for taking Brettell Road out was going on I did distract myself from it with a few road vehicles to maintain a semblance of sanity.
The Leyland Beaver milk tank I’ve featured before in an unfinished state. It had kind of stalled for a while but now I have finished it off. This is a Langley Models kit.
On the subject of Langley models I picked up this 4 wheel dolly from ebay for next to nothing. Thinking it looked like the sort of thing that could be found lying around at a steelworks, I though it would make a nice bit of background clutter.
On to New Street – These 2 are 3d printed kits from CMAC Models. On the left a VW and on the right a Lada Riva Estate. Nice kits, I recommend them.
Ive recently managed to get myself involved in one of Iain Rice’s old layouts, Cades Green. The layout has been rescued by the Norfolk area group of the Scalefour society and turned from a home layout into an exhibit-able one. Its first show in its revised form was at Scaleforum back in September. One thing that stood out to me were the road vehicles, not only was there a bus on a bridge but they were tipped straight from a box! I guess Iain never managed to get round to them?
Given that they were straight from a box, and Iain hadn’t done anything to them, there weren’t any real qualms in me taking them away to have a fiddle. Its not like I would be messing with Iains work after all. The above is an Oxford Diecast Commer van given the basic treatment of darkening the window frames and a bit of weathering. I changed the tyres as the originals went all sticky. Ive had this happen before and it seems completely random as to why it does. Any ideas?
Next up the offending bus on a bridge – Original Omnibus Bristol L5. There was a bit more to do to this one. The glazing was just too far recessed for the black edge trick to work on its own, so that would all need to be redone. The wheels where a nice rendition of the type found on a Routemaster but not right for an L5 . There were no indicators or tail lights and the destination box was nothing more that printed on. Results are below.
Links
CMAC Models (Ive linked to their Ebay page as they seem to have more stuff on there than their website)