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  1. Identifying the prototype for the Airfix/Dapol booking hall
    Aug 22, 2021 · original
    The Airfix/Dapol station booking hall plastic kit is a OO scale model railway classic, first issued in 1958.[1. Booking Hall at Vintage Airfix .] An old catalogue listing says it was “based upon an actual structure” [2. Brighton Toy & Model Museum ] – but which one? It is not dissimilar to late C19th/early C20th Great Western Railway buildings, with the hipped roof and two chimneys, but I haven’t been able to identify a good match in the way that the Airfix church , signal box or windmill kits match prototypes. The wide open doorway in the middle of the platform side of the model building is quite distinctive. Other potential identifying features which don’t feel like they would have been invented are the clock above the door, and the style of canopy. So, has anyone got any ideas where the real thing is (or was)? Links Airfix Trackside Series listing at an Airfix Model Railways histiory
  2. The Airfix/Dapol church at Bonchurch on the Isle of Wight
    Aug 18, 2021 · original
    The Airfix (now Dapol) plastic kit for a village church is a true classic of OO scale model railways, and is based on the real Old St Boniface church at Bonchurch near Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. On 10 October 2020 I went to see the real thing, and then bought a Dapol kit to see what details could be added to make the model more closely match the prototype. Old English churches tend to be quite complicated structures with centuries of accumulated modifications and additions, and the kit captures this well with details such as the small window by the porch. The prototype is a very small church, as churches go, which helps for a model; a more conventionally sized church could easily dominate a typical model railway layout. The main differences between the plastic kit and the real thing are the tower, which seems somewhat oversized and simplified on the model, and the roof. The first thin
  3. Amberley museum monorail demonstration running
    Aug 8, 2021 · original
    Industrial monorail demonstration at the Amberley Museum railway gala, 10 July 2021. I’m afraid you’ll have to sing the Simpsons song yourself…
  4. Identifying the prototype for the Airfix/Dapol windmill kit
    Aug 4, 2021 · original
    Is the Airfix (and now Dapol) plastic kit for a OO scale model windmill based on a real prototype? The church kit is based on the real church at Bonchurch on the Isle of Wight, and the signal box is famously based on one at Oakham in Rutland. After comparing various details, I suspect the windmill kit is based on the real one at Outwood in Surrey . Factors leading me to think the model kit is based on Outwood are: an Airfix advert from the October 1960 issue of Model Ralway News says Airfix kits are “exact replicas” and has a photo of a real windmill looking very similar to the model. [1. http://www.airfixrailways.co.uk/Windmill.htm ] This makes me think a prototype probably does exist, and as with the church kit it is not simply a freelance model the model kit is of a post mill the roundhouse is circular rather than polygonal, and made of brick there are two doors to the roundhouse, at
  5. Studio Minatures Dr Brydon
    Aug 3, 2021 · original
    Studio Minatures 28 mm figure of William Brydon , subject of the famous painting The Remnants of an Army of the First Afghan War.
  6. Capital Ring – Grove Park to Crystal Palace
    Oct 26, 2020 · original
    All the way back to where I started .
  7. Capital Ring – Woolwich to Grove Park
    Oct 24, 2020 · original
  8. Capital Ring – West Ham to Woolwich
    Oct 19, 2020 · original
    Not the most inspiring section of the Capital Ring; a long straight path on top of a sewer, then some housing, the bleakness of the former docks, a diversion because the path over a lock gate was closed, and then some streets in Woolwich. Even the River Thames doesn’t provide much excitement today.
  9. Capital Ring – Finsbury Park to West Ham
    Sep 19, 2020 · original
    One of the more interesting sections of the Capital Ring. It covers places I’ve not been to before, and would never really have any reason to go to, and a fair bit of the path is alongside waterways.
  10. Capital Ring – Hendon to Finsbury Park
    Sep 7, 2020 · original

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