London bus dio

[Deleted member 3568]

Hi all I've realised I've made a huge error with this, so huge in fact that I'm just going to have to call it a London like dio (I could never have modeled half of Eros anyway) I was so busy trying to get the hight right on the fountain, I forgot about the area of it, wasn't till I put a 1/24 figure up to it (as someone suggested) I realised, i have the width totally wrong should be at least twice as long as I have it. Although I could remake it, it would mean redoing the steps, again on could do that, the problem is I would have to scale the rest of the dio up and it's already a metre square, I have nowhere to keep a dio of over 2 metres square, so it will just have to be the way it is.

 

[Paul Davies]

Thanks Paul the escort is waaaay beyond my price range, the cheapest I've found on eBay was 120 quid, much as I loved the escort I'm not paying that.

belkits do some early escort rally cars that could easly be used as a road car. Think they are about £40

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Hi all well since I can't work on herbie at the moment (still waiting for decals) I decided to do a bit to this.

As you can see from this the fountain is utterly wrong, grrrr, 

Revell made a mistake

Oops


First coat on seats

 

[monica]

some nice progress hear , :D

 

[Deleted member 4539]

Those seats look great Ken

 

[Deleted member 3568]

OK so here's another update.

And I thought since this is the London bus dio I'd better start the bus (it's a lot bigger than you think and I've run out of red paint now, not even enough to finish the body on this so now I have to get some more)

 

[Pikeman]

The bus looks like it will be fun to build once you have the paint


Great progess on the car too Ken 

 

[monica]

nice progress with this one,Ken :D


if your still ,looking for cars,ICM,has a few in 1.24.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Hi all did a bit more to the Bentley 

Not sure which engine for the bus 


Scania

Or Leyland

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Still not sure which engine


Scania

or the Leyland 

 

[monica]

its great ,Ken,very well done, :D

 

[steve5]

lovely work so far ken , really like the weathering on the motor mate

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Hi all another update.

 

[Builder]

Very nice work Ken. Really like the base youve done up. Also very good work on the seats. 

 

[monica]

very nice work ,Ken,looking good so far, :D

 

[Deleted member 4539]

Looking good Ken .

 

[Snowman]

Spanking work!! B|

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Hi all another update, I lost one of the stub axles or whatever they are so I had to scratch build a new one, cocktail stick to the rescue again (I find them sooooo useful)

Did some griming up of the bus chassis, needs a bit more but I'm quite pleased with it.

 

[colin m]

I skip to the last page of a London bus dio and find a rather smart Bentley. Great looking Bentley it is too.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Hi all well it was my birthday today and we had family over, are grandchildren born with a funny bone, sitting in the dining room and the light goes out, Meg pokes her head round the corner and says shh it's a secret papa granny's got you a birthday cake just as the cake is bought in the door, we were in fits of laughter, she's 3.


Here is part of my haul (still have some to pick up from my mums and pam says 2 cars are still awaiting delivery) I'm chuffed for one birthday.

These are for this dio as I said the mini and jag are still in the post

And this is for light releif (I've got plans for it and those who know me know it won't be like the box art)( and I mean nothing like the box art)