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1/24 london bus diorama
« on: September 06, 2016, 03:43:29 AM »
Hi all, this may or may not happen, it will be the biggest project I've ever taken on I've been playing with the layout, it will be huge (I may have to try and make it in 2 halves somehow to store and work on it) anyway I cut the footprint of all the the vehicles and have placed them roughly (obviously a piece of oblong paper doesn't really look anything like a car or bus but it gives me an idea of scale needed, as you can see I can't really make it any smaller but I will need a few more cars ( any suggestions on iconic British cars availiable in 1/24)


This is something like I'm hoping to depict.

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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2016, 07:26:12 AM »
Ambitious is one word I thought of immediately

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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2016, 09:30:26 AM »
I can't read most of the names on the slips but I'm sure there are a number available in 1/24 (Mini's seem popular).

These are the ones I could find in stock in one online store (www.bnamodelworld.com);
Fujimi Lotus Europe Special
Italeri RR Phantom II
Tamiya Austin Mini Cooper 1275S Mk.1
Revell Original Mini Cooper
Fujimi Old Mini Mayfair 1.3i - 25th Anniversary
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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2016, 03:20:47 AM »
Hi all well here is the first tentative steps in this one, I've primed and top coated the Bentley, won't get much else done as on hols on Friday, really need this holiday work is soooooooooooo stressful at the moment.





On the list are an E Type a mini a Roller a London taxi an mgb (if I can find them a mk1 escort and a landy)

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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2016, 03:48:01 AM »
Hi all here is probably the last update till we get back off hols.












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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2016, 02:43:33 AM »
Hi all, well Robin (on another forum) had a great idea to add a zebra crossing to give me a cut line so as i can join the two halves together, but I've checked and can find no ref pics at any time period with a zebra crossing at picadilly circus (and I can't add something to such an iconic British landmark that wasn't there) so,,, Ive got a cunning plan, I'm going to make all the buildings and scenery removable  (not sure how yet)  anyway made a start on the fountain, I was going to cheat and do it as it was in ww2 but of course the route master and mini and taxi for that matter were after ww2.



I know, I know it looks like corrugated cardboard but with a bit of plaster of Paris I'm sure it will be fine (I hope)

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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2016, 12:22:58 PM »
Don't Revell do a London black taxi cab in 1/24th? That would be perfect. Also, you hardly ever see a stretch of UK road that has purely Brit cars on it unless there's a one-make rally going on, so some foreign-but-ordinary cars would fit right in. VW Beatles were ubiquitous in their day, as were the VW minibus, The VW Golf, the Citroen 2CV and the Fiat 500, all of which have been kitted. Revell/ESCI did a Ford Escort and that's as 'British' a car as anything (made here and hugely popular in it's day).

Just remember that cheap, ordinary family cars are WAY more common that exotic sports cars or bourgemobiles.

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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2016, 12:20:13 AM »
Hi all can't really get into any serious modeling (no time) but decided to try another idea with the fountain made the paving slabs out of stiff paper and added pre shading, I think it's going to be OK, not sure how I'm going to handle the curb stones.


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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2016, 03:00:13 AM »
Very nice work!  From a distance that looks quite convincing for something crafted from cardboard and not plastic card stock. 
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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #9 on: October 03, 2016, 01:22:49 AM »
Hi all done a little bit more on this.








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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2016, 02:54:01 AM »
Hi all well I've started on the fountain (not sure how to do the corner ornamentation yet) but I pleased with how it's starting, this is a picture frame upside down and a bit of the ornamentation filed off its actually 2  mil to low in scale but that's only a couple of inches overall.






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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2016, 04:59:09 PM »
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.

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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2016, 02:53:56 AM »
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


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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2016, 03:46:54 AM »
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)




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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2016, 03:53:43 AM »
 :)
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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #15 on: October 19, 2016, 04:01:00 AM »
Hi all did a bit more to the Bentley 


Not sure which engine for the bus 
Scania

Or Leyland

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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #16 on: October 21, 2016, 01:54:48 AM »
Still not sure which engine
Scania




or the Leyland



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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #17 on: October 21, 2016, 07:55:16 AM »
I like the look of the more colourful Scania ... but it is a British bus, so the Leyland would be more appropriate in that way ... but the Scania is better looking ... but the Leyland is more workman like


Can't help you, sorry! :-\
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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #18 on: October 22, 2016, 05:10:15 AM »
FWIW, I'd vote Leyland to keep your bus British.
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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #19 on: October 22, 2016, 02:33:29 PM »
Well that is I suppose the logical choice as it is supposed to be about British icons of motoring.

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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #20 on: October 24, 2016, 10:10:04 AM »
Great stuff KPNUTS!!!!
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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #22 on: October 25, 2016, 03:55:12 AM »
Piece by piece is on way to be a knockout.
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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #23 on: October 26, 2016, 03:15:14 AM »
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.


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Re: 1/24 london bus diorama
« Reply #24 on: October 26, 2016, 01:08:36 PM »
Nice work ... and intriguingly asymmetrical underpinnings.
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