New  in the range of excellent card kits:

http://www.metcalfemodels.com/acatalog/00_H0_SERVICE_STATION.html

Thomas

Nice looking kit. You could do a lot with that.

That look good Thomas - Metcalfe are, in my opinion, great kits !!

Would this kit fit in with your continental layout - I'd have thought it was a bit too UK styled ?

It would not fit as I am building a Japanese layout in N scale. But I still have a look at OO buildings because sometimes when more time and space are available a OO layout could happen.

Thomas

Hi peeps just been building this kit, and........ like all the other metcalfe kits what a joy to build!!, took some pics, as its nearly done, then onto the details i gotta order. Will post pics shortly.

This is not yet fully finished but it is a nice kit.

Have you got a picture of the rear of the model watcher?

When I get my camera working I will take one.

Looks a cracking model what are the petrol pumps like?

Have not built the pumps. They are not particularly good. The canopy is OK though.

It looks very good!

Mike

[user=8]MikeC[/user] wrote:

It looks very good!

Mike

Time to bulldoze the old AA service station on Swanhurst Mike?

As requested here is the rear:




I now need to do something about drains, gutters and weathering. Something for mid winter. 


 

Thanks for that, good picture. I take it that the existing weathering on the brickwork is as it came with the kit. If so it gives you a good start.

Got to agree, that's a nice kit.

That is exactly as it came, minus the canopy and pumps.

I have been collecting posters from the mid 1980's to adorn the walls. The cover shot of the 1985 Pirelli calander is a good example. Cannot reproduce it here for copyright reasons.

Any advice on workshop fittings like hoists, tools, etc. would be appreciated.

The showroom and workshop areas will have internal lighting. The canopy which is being butchered will have spot lighing.

Thanks for the comments but it is Metcalfe who deserve the aclaim. Very nice piece of work.

nice looking building, might just get one what is the size of the footprint
please,
as for fittings you could make a four post hoist for that era,
you might look at Gem models for tools etc.
there are other sites too.

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The footprint is 190mm (including the projection for the steps to the first floor) x 150 mm

ah well there you go - too big for the space I have. Saves me a job

Mike

never mind Mike,at least i have room on mine,i`ll share it with you !!

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