I'm too young to have been on a Glesga tram never mind an Embra wan!!!!!!!!! (Glasgow trams stopped running in '62 Edinburgh in '56)iggie wrote:Lovely work so far PT
Will a younger you be represented on the tram?
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Purplethistle wrote:I'm too young to have been on a Glesga tram never mind an Embra wan!!!!!!!!! (Glasgow trams stopped running in '62 Edinburgh in '56)iggie wrote:Lovely work so far PT
Will a younger you be represented on the tram?
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Most of the windows in now. the ridge around the inside edge is so fiendishly small to see that I don't know how I would have got on if I was as old as Iggie seems to think I am!
The Airfix Platform figures set has 2 types of seated figure, 1 man who looked like a crap spy and 1 woman who looks like a prim schoolteacher (3 of each) I thought it would have been too much to have 3 obvious spies on one tram, so some conversion work was dome to make one into a driver. one of the 2 remaining spies will be altered to be reading a newspaper ( or cunningly watching through two eyeholes in the newspaper!)
The Stationmaster figure has had the coat over his arm cut down to make a money bag and is now the tram conductor.
The Airfix Platform figures set has 2 types of seated figure, 1 man who looked like a crap spy and 1 woman who looks like a prim schoolteacher (3 of each) I thought it would have been too much to have 3 obvious spies on one tram, so some conversion work was dome to make one into a driver. one of the 2 remaining spies will be altered to be reading a newspaper ( or cunningly watching through two eyeholes in the newspaper!)
The Stationmaster figure has had the coat over his arm cut down to make a money bag and is now the tram conductor.
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Gosh that interior is looking really impressive, PT. Not just the tiny, customized figures but you've even got the metal handles on the seat backs!!
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Excellent work I love the spy v spy passenger set
My work bench is starting to look like Portsmouth Naval Dockyard.
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When I did the card interiors & figures for the Kitmaster coaches for our SMW 2015 display, it seemed like 25% of the guys and another 25% of the gals wore trench coats with hats pulled down. Must be something in the water over there
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I had just been congratulating myself on managing to not ping off into oblivion any of the tiny 2mm x 2mm windows or the teeny tiny throttle and brake handles when I had an Ooops moment and dropped one of the sides onto the glued up interior decks. The glue made a mess of all the lower saloon windows on that side which displeased me somewhat! However, after exhausting my not inconsiderable vocabulary of international bad words ( including Serbo-Croat, which has some eye-wateringly specific oaths) I explored alternative glazing and found that acetate sheets for an overhead projector not only does the job, but looks a lot clearer! now I have the dilemma of wondering if I should replace ALL the main windows this way.
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What do you mean, fit them and then drop them in gluePurplethistle wrote:I have the dilemma of wondering if I should replace ALL the main windows this way.
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Not posted for a few days, but if I had the posts would have all read, -' Putting sides on but knocked in a couple of windows in the process' apart from yesterday which would have read, 'Ends, sides and roof on...but now have to try to retrieve and reaffix two knocked in windows! '
(Window retrieval method is to straighten a paper clip, affix a tiny blob of chewing gum to end, 'catch' the window on the chewing gum, line it up, apply clearfix to window frame, then using gummy paperclip pull and hold window into place.) It was all very 'Well done me!' the first 2 or 3 times but it is getting very old now!
(Window retrieval method is to straighten a paper clip, affix a tiny blob of chewing gum to end, 'catch' the window on the chewing gum, line it up, apply clearfix to window frame, then using gummy paperclip pull and hold window into place.) It was all very 'Well done me!' the first 2 or 3 times but it is getting very old now!
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I applaud your dedication to your art, PT!
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What flavour of chewing gum works the best?
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Given that I have to shoogle the paper clip about a fair bit to capture the elusive transparencies, I find that anything by 'Wrigley' does what it says on the tin!splash wrote:What flavour of chewing gum works the best?
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Kind of prototypical really; I bet a fair amount of gum gets scraped off the average bus window from time to time!
Nice save though
Nice save though
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The other end and the roof are actually on now (dislodging 2 more windows on the lower deck that had to be fished out and replaced )
The newspaper in Crap Spy's hands is a much reduced copy of Pravda with two wee spyholes in the front. Too small to see, so that was half an hour I won't get back!
The newspaper in Crap Spy's hands is a much reduced copy of Pravda with two wee spyholes in the front. Too small to see, so that was half an hour I won't get back!
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