4mm Llanfair ....

[LarryG]

If nothing else, you get variety on this thread......

I need public transport vehicles for the station forecourt and have purchased some of Corgi 1/50 models for trials. I produced 1/50th scale castings and etchings some 30 years ago in partnership with Ralph Jackson and thought of using the bits to backdate the Corgi coach seen alongside the Oldham Corporation Roe bodied Leyland TD4. The latter would have been ideal for my needs had I not been reluctant to repaint it. This is another in-between job while the sprayshop is rained off...

 

[Geoff]

Lovely models Larry, I would like one of these in Crosville livery but don't have room.

O-scale (1:43) New resin-cast Buses

www.scalelink.co.uk

Geoff

 

[LarryG]

Lovely models Larry, I would like one of these in Crosville livery but don't have room.

O-scale (1:43) New resin-cast Buses

www.scalelink.co.uk

Geoff

That ECW Bristol looks the business. I've got an inexpensive Corgi Tilling green 'decker to mess around with, which will be good enough as part of the background 'scenery'...

 

[LarryG]

The front wings were removed and filed back to resemble the shape of those carried by Leyland PSV vehicles pre-war. I haven got a Leyland bonnet in stock (different grill arrangement) or bonnet top louvers, so i'll pretend the new owner changed the bonnet...



It is a Tiger TS8 chassis with covers over the front spring shackles. Additionally, the the continuous curved waist body styling was a late 1930's thing, which provided the basis of design for post-war coach bodies. I'll now consider the livery...


Cab front extended downwards with plastikard strengthened from the back and filed to match the body after removing headlamp...

 

[Lyndhurstman]

Tackling things in between showers, the LMS van was finally weathered and varnished today. Photographed in drab light, which suits this ready-for-the-knackers yard unfitted van...
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Lovely work, Larry.

Cheers

Jan

 

[LarryG]

Getting there slowly. 1/50th or 7mm transfers would have been useful. From postwar AEC luxury coach to a prewar Leyland as running in the mid 1950's.....



Trying to recreate a secondhand bus with a simple local repaint for stage carriage services. Plonked together for the photo. The cream is Ford Ivory, purchase becasue I aim to use it on the station building eventually...

 

[paulc]

Getting there slowly. 1/50th or 7mm transfers would have been useful. From postwar AEC luxury coach to a prewar Leyland as running in the mid 1950's.....

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Trying to recreate a secondhand bus with a simple local repaint for stage carriage services. Plonked together for the photo...
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Hi Larry , the bus is great but please tell me you printed off Llanfair T N . If you hand painted it then i will have to take up tiddlywinks or someting . Oh no , i just noticed Llanfair road down the bottom .
Golf anybody ????

 

[LarryG]

Thanks Paul. Hand lettering was something I had to do in the days before transfers, but I struggle these days. Mabex do 4mm scale bus transfers, but hardly any in a larger scale.

It wasn't worth buying an aerosol of red car paint, so the red was mixed from cellulose by lightening my carmine red. I have no silver paint either so picking out handles will have to wait.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Rather than silver or aluminium paint I use these Molotow Chrome Paint Pens for creating chromework on vehicles. They are available from here among others https://www.amazon.co.uk/Molotow-Liquid-Chrome-Pump-Marker/dp/B01E7EG3NM

They come in different nib sizes from 1mm upwards.

I use the 1mm version for any chrome trim on vehicles where required - bumpers, headlight and radiator surrounds, door handles, etc.

 

[LarryG]

Thanks for the tip Dave. I hadn't heard of those pens. I scraped back to metal this morning.

The bus was sprayed with Halfords Satin Lacquer and then reassembled when dry...

None of the aluminium trim on the Duple body was picked out, as I wanted the vehicle to look secondhand, purchased solely for stage carriage use by Llanfair Road Services. I used to drive for Gold Star Line and have fond memories of the s/h vehicles we got to drive...

I wonder how many members remember traveling in the old coaches. Patterned moquette seats, avant-garde glass shades over the interior lights and carpeted ceilings. A lot of sound insulation went into these designs.

 

[LarryG]

A start was made on priming the station building components this morning. It was left while last because of it's size and the amount of work involved. Like the 4mm building, it will be finished in BR(W) brown and ivory...

 

[oldravendale]

I wonder how many members remember traveling in the old coaches. Patterned moquette seats, avant-garde glass shades over the interior lights and carpeted ceilings. A lot of sound insulation went into these designs.

Aah yes, Larry. The Royal Blue Bristols (I think) we used to go to New Milton in to visit an aunt. They had staggered seats I remember, so that everyone had an easy view out of both sides.

Brian

 

[Focalplane]

I remember the old coaches around Oswestry but not the names of the owners.

 

[Gismorail]

I can remember a coach company Fishers of Whitchurch who used to take our school at Ellesmere to away sports fixtures that had some old coaches with interiors like that but unfortunately I can’t remember the make

 

[Gismorail]

A quick look an old bus site leads my to believe they would have been Bedford SB’s

 

[King Crab]

Cumbria Classic Coaches used to run a regular Tuesday service from the Fat Lamb at Ravenstonedale via Kirkby Stephen to Hawes for the weekly market. At the time this was our only scheduled bus service!
Covid seems to have killed it off I'm afraid.
Here is one of the fleet we flagged down at our Outhgill stop in 2019 .
Listening to the gears meshing and fancy clutchwork as it made the steep climb over Ais Gill was always a treat...

Peter

 

[oldravendale]

We're going down a rabbit hole here, Larry, so apologies for diverting the thread. Your question about vintage coaches we may have ridden reminded me about the time Kodak, for whom I worked at the time, moved their head office from Kingsway in London to Hemel Hempstead in 1971. Transport was provided from Harrow to Hemel for those of us involved in the transfer and the contract was won by Premier Albanian of Watford. I always went for the old AEC coach - I guess it was probably mid to late 1950s vintage. I've looked for photos on line but regrettably no such luck, so I can't confirm the model. I think the second vehicle was a Duple bodied Bedford - far too modern given the alternative.

Brian

 

[LarryG]

Brian, no diversion at all, afterall I invited comments to do with the project in hand. Your coach was likely a Regal III. The AEC's had a lovely gearbox wine. I passed my PSV on an AEC from Oxford. It went to preservation when we had done with it.

 

[Focalplane]

I imagine that many 1930s coaches and buses were fitted with preselector gearboxes. The whine from them can be pervasive but in the Welsh foothills the gear change must have been a blessing. My recent experience of driving my 1935 Kestrel with Armstrong Whitworth box has been great fun on the roller coaster South Downs roads. Belt down a hill at 40mph while preselecting 3rd and then just as the next uphill begins to take its toll, stamp the “clutch” pedal and an instant down change maintains the momentum. It does get a bit embarrassing when second is also required and an impatient Porsche Boxter is inside the rear view mirror!

 

[Gismorail]

One things for sure you can’t beat a good ‘Rabbit Hole ‘ it makes you realise that everyday is a school day