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Post by Cartman on May 3, 2020 14:52:16 GMT
I use car sprays and ones I get from our local pound shop. Halfords red primer is very near to the bauxite colour used on goods wagons
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Post by DI Alex Drake on May 3, 2020 19:17:39 GMT
I hadn't thought before, but I could ask you lot by the sounds of it. For Christmas I asked for various things that could be done away from the screen because I work in front of a computer all day and I just felt like I should be doing other things when I got home. Hadn't anticipated lockdown of course!! But I have a few model kits which came with transfers. I don't really understand how I'm supposed to apply them and there are no instructions? I believe you have to use water? Does anyone know?
It's obviously not my achievement, but my dad has been making custom (tiny) 1960s Stock Car models, painstakingly, using grainy black and white photos! He's managed to make contact with some of the very few remaining drivers from that time to check colours etc. I can get some pictures from my mum if anyone is interested!
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Post by Three Litre on May 3, 2020 19:21:38 GMT
I hadn't thought before, but I could ask you lot by the sounds of it. For Christmas I asked for various things that could be done away from the screen because I work in front of a computer all day and I just felt like I should be doing other things when I got home. Hadn't anticipated lockdown of course!! But I have a few model kits which came with transfers. I don't really understand how I'm supposed to apply them and there are no instructions? I believe you have to use water? Does anyone know? It's obviously not my achievement, but my dad has been making custom (tiny) 1960s Stock Car models, painstakingly, using grainy black and white photos! He's managed to make contact with some of the very few remaining drivers from that time to check colours etc. I can get some pictures from my mum if anyone is interested! You slip the sheet of transfers into a dish of water and then you can pick each transfer off one at a time. Or that was it when I did it.
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Post by Gene Hunt on May 3, 2020 19:23:49 GMT
It's obviously not my achievement, but my dad has been making custom (tiny) 1960s Stock Car models, painstakingly, using grainy black and white photos! He's managed to make contact with some of the very few remaining drivers from that time to check colours etc. I can get some pictures from my mum if anyone is interested! Yes, absolutely! Gene.
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Post by DI Alex Drake on May 3, 2020 20:01:33 GMT
OK! So this is an approximate example of the sorts of blanks he's buying. You can't get the right shapes but because back then they were mostly basically chopped up street cars, it still works! Based on images like this (and this is a better quality one than most) and I think they're probably all Devon and Cornwall based but I could be wrong. The sidings of the model railway dad has have basically been made into a stock car workshop! And a nice black and white re-make to match the photo. I think he's made about 60 to date!! And he's a stickler for details so as soon as he finds out anything is even slightly wrong, he will correct it. This one (549) was actually seen by the original driver- the bonnet colours were slightly wrong so dad corrected them. 689 Johnny Marquand - the only one I can name unaided, was my dad's favourite as a boy. He ended up getting to know him when he was an adult and has one of his trophies as a keepsake. Sadly he passed away a few years ago now but that probably explains why he has colour images of his cars.
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Post by Sparky on May 3, 2020 20:09:53 GMT
Great pics Alex. It's always the details that make such scenes.
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Post by Three Litre on May 3, 2020 20:14:26 GMT
Quite right Sparky, like getting the size of the gravel on the ground right, which it is.
Good pics!
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Post by Del Boy on May 3, 2020 20:21:53 GMT
Thanks for posting Alex. I think your dad has done a top job on those and i bet the drivers he contacted were happy to reminisce about those times with him.
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Post by Sparky on May 3, 2020 20:26:39 GMT
Quite right Sparky, like getting the size of the gravel on the ground right, which it is. Good pics! When I go to Model Railway exhibitions, I like to look at the trains running, but also pay a lot of attention to the little details and "Easter Eggs" they add in - and the lengths people go to. It amazes me.
My lads railway - currently under construction, is set in the 70s, so will have a lot of British Rail "Blue" locos running. I picked up a 00 Gauge "NHK" (with actual NHK plates) for £4.50, which we will add. My son asks if we can make a film unit, shut off a street and have a scene of them shooting the "Sweeney".
I need to look in to what vans and trucks they'd have been using in 1974 (I think Samuelsons equipment hire used Navy Blue Trucks), and Cine-Hire UK had similar Bedford or Luton Vans with side and back shutter doors for Grip Trucks.
Need to find something as a Generator truck, a route master (for catering).
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Post by Gene Hunt on May 3, 2020 20:31:24 GMT
Wonderful stuff Bollykecks! I particularly like the above photo. Your Dad should be really proud of those Gene.
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