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 wanted to the place the buildings on island platforms. The Wills Kit is designed to butt up against a masonry wall. So - I needed to build my own ‘free standing’ wall. 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 pla...