No.41 Spending a Penny – making a Wills Kit
Not a sunny day so an opportunity to make up some plastic kits. I have had couple of Victorian Toilet kits put to one side for some time. Time now to get on with them.
The plan was to use the toilets alongside some existing Hornby Skaledale ‘North York Moors’ buildings – so one of the first jobs was to paint over the green plastic with a ‘maroon’ colour. I also rubbed some matt black paint into the tiled floor and wall surfaces to pick out the joints. A touch of ‘gold’ picked out the pipework.
I had some suitable offcuts from what I will call ‘rigid
foam board’ – 3mm thick, faced with cardboard with an inner core of foam as
used for lightweight display material. I
also had some remnants of Superquick building paper left over from making the
platform sides. I made the wall a couple
of millimetres longer than the Wills Kit and cut out the quoins to wrap round
each end.
The plastic parts of the Wills Kit were assembled using my
favourite solvent MEK/Butanone. I would
say that it was not straightforward getting the pieces to fit at right angles –
but perhaps I am out of practice.
Finally the cardboard rear wall was offered up to the finished plastic
model and fixed using a glue stick.
The model is some 96mm long corresponding to 24 real
feet. This seems mighty big for railway
toilets. ‘They’ must be expecting large
numbers of people - perhaps with a long wait whilst changing trains!
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