It's engraved Styrene Gary.

Here's some more detailing, a chapel poster, unfortunately it's only as good as the DPI of the printer, but impossible to read with the naked eye anyway!


Oh! and a door knob and letter box.


After fitting that downpipe, the labourer was sacked :lol: 

Phil

 




 

Nice detail…I like the wear to the sills and the advert in the window.


REgards…Alan

Hi Phil,

The weathered sills and the woodwork look very authentic. As for the notice in the window, boy your eyes must be good.

Excellent stuff.

Toto

I think that with closeup pictures like this it's easy to forget how small these models are and usually they pick up stuff that's overlooked but probably not seen anyway:???:

Phil

I'm looking for 1940/50' street lights for the houses, I remember them being simple and on  wooden lamposts but I can't find them anywhere?

 

Phil

They must have used old pit props in your part of the world Phil - in my part of the world they were cast iron fluted posts with a slender arm sticking out for the lamplighter to rest his ladder against to either light the gas or change the mantle. :roll::roll:

Peter, your part of the world must have  been a lot more posh than mine:lol:

Phil

The ones I'm talking about were gas lamps Phil - I doubt they'd have used timber posts for gas lamps…………..:hmm

When electric street lighting replaced gas, then I do remember in some  places, particularly "less urban" areas where there was no piped gas, they were attached to timber telegraph poles via a bracket

That's the ones i'm looking for, the lamp part was a simple design, the ones i'm browsing are too elaborate.

Hi Phil,Houses are great,
I am with Peter on street lighting of the period you are talking about.I seem to remember late 1950,s early 60,s the swan neck type of lamp bolted to electricity wooden poles planted here and there.

Cheers,
Derek.

I think this is the sort of thing.

 

Yes Phil,
Brackets varied but I do remember those lamps and there shades which threw the light down to the street.
Plus they were kind to astronomy less light pollution.

regards,
Derek.

But where to find a couple? I don't want to make them if I can help it!

 

Phil

Whilst it's many bottles of RLW ago Phil, I think I recall much simpler brackets - I can't draw but they were just a round arm bolted to the pole, sticking straight out with a second "stay" arm from the lamp area up to the pole - an inverted right-angle triagle really……….:roll::roll:

I suspect quite easy to make although the LED for the lamp itself might be tricky ……the shade could just be a bit of card or plasticard with 2 holes punced in to take the LED wires (and keep them separate) - one leading off along the straight arm and the other following the stay.  Round the back of the pole, they're joined to thin twin cable for the feed …………:hmm

Yep, those brackets were a lot simpler than that picture which is the only one I could find. It might be a case for making them after all!

 

Phil

Plonked it down on the layout last night, doesn't look half bad, here's somew PS stuff.

 

Phil

 

Very, Very nice…but someone has gone to bed and left a window open down stairs…..


REgards…Alan

Actually Alan the guy there has a layout in that room and has lost sense of time…..does that sound familiar :lol:

 

Phil

Hi Phil…It does sound about right and yes it does sound familiar



REgards…Alan