{"id":2344,"date":"2016-11-07T21:30:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T20:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2016-11-07T21:30:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T20:30:19","slug":"a-further-foray-into-road-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2344","title":{"rendered":"A Further Foray Into Road Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few posts back I showed some veteran cars that I had acquired. While browsing the bring and buy stall at Keighley I spied a couple of Matchbox models of Yesteryear trucks at a quid a piece. One was a 1927 Talbot van which was is a rather grim yellow bakery livery and the other was a 1918 Crossley in a red coal and coke merchant livery.<\/p>\n

Both looked very toy like so I thought that they would be ideal to practice painting and glazing on without much loss if my efforts went south. They are supposedly 1:48 scale but to be honest when compared to the Danbury Mint vehicles they don’t look smaller.<\/p>\n

I still have to paint the canvas tilt and the moulded sacks of coal for the load in the back. The latter may get binned if I can’t make them look a bit more realistic than they do at present.<\/p>\n

Paints are from the various Vallejo ranges varnished with several coats of Johnsons Klear (the original version – I think that I managed to get what’s probably a lifetimes supply before it disappeared from supermarket shelves)<\/p>\n

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1:48 Scale 1918 Crossley Truck<\/p><\/div>\n

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1:48 Scale 1918 Crossley Truck<\/p><\/div>\n

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1:48 Scale 1918 Crossley Truck<\/p><\/div>\n

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1:48 Scale 1918 Crossley Truck<\/p><\/div>\n

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Next is the Danbury Mint MG SS\/100<\/p>\n

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1:43 Scale 1945 MG-TC<\/p><\/div>\n

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1:43 Scale 1945 MG-TC<\/p><\/div>\n

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1:43 Scale 1945 MG-TC<\/p><\/div>\n

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1:43 Scale 1945 MG-TC<\/p><\/div>\n

The eagle eyed amongst you will note that the MG isn’t glazed, sadly the glazing sheets that I had to hand (courtesy of Adrian Cherry, thanks again Adrian) was too thick because the MG has windscreen wipers and what I take to be a rear view mirror. Which mean that whatever glazing is used will need to be pretty thin.<\/p>\n

I have also noticed that I haven’t picked out the dials etc on the dashboard after painting it to represent the walnut etc. that they used for such things in the past.<\/p>\n

More on the other cars to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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