Mile End Garage

[Skidsolo]

I started this one way back in early 2014, got sidetracked but am now back at it.

The basic outline is a run down late 1950's early 1960's English village garage.

This is just a brief run down, if anyone has any questions please feel free to ask. I'm more than willing to answer.

The basic kit:

In the garage will be this. Possibly mid way through prepping for a respray into a civilian colour:



This will be the garage owners transport, painted in a civilian colour:



This will be propped up outside in military colours and have a 'For Sale' sign on it:



Equipment for the interior:



The small boy from this kit, kindly donated by a member on another site. He'll be looking 'longingly' at the motorcycle:



A petrol pump:



The garage owner:

The garage owner's father:

There is more stuff to that I don't currently have photos of.

This is the finished Tilly, compete with Dodgy Dennis's flash over civilian paint job. Should've dusted it before taking the photo!! LOL

I lost the kit wipers and had to make some up. Tamiya did not supply rear lights (I don't think they used them in WWII) so I made my own. I also made the bonnet stay and the tail gate stays.

I made a tarp to go on the roof to cover an ugly gap in the fit of the resin aftermarket bed cover.

It's not meant to be super shiney. It's meant to represent an ex WWII Tilly sold to a civilian garage owner, who has given it a quick 'flash' paint job. It will eventually be placed on the forecourt.

The Miniart shed kit leaves a lot to be desired as regards fit, as this photo shows. There were a lot more:

Some intermediate photos:

That's all for now, I'll post more progress later.

Comments and constructive critique always welcome.

[wkennerley]

nice start this looks like its going to be a very interesting build - I started a modernish garage diorama in 1/32 / 1/35 some years back, need to get back to it sometime

Wayne

[Skidsolo]

Thanks Wayne..... you should get back to yours. Dios are fun.

Pictoral update:

TP15

[Ozzy]

Nice going, you've made a nice job of the mini art kit.

[Foghorn Leghorn]

Love the tilly ...

Edited August 21, 2016 by Foghorn Leghorn

[RichO]

Nice tin roof!

[TGA]

I love the idea and I love your work. Great looking outhouse!!

[Skidsolo]

Nice going, you've made a nice job of the mini art kit.

Thanks Ozzy. It's not an easy kit to work with. Difficult to cut out and atrocious fit problems.

Love the tilly ...

It's the Tamiya 1:35 version with this conversion by Legend Products:

Nice tin roof!

It's made from K & S Allumnium sheet then cut to size and corrugated by me. It will get some more weathering touch ups when it's finished.

I love the idea and I love your work. Great looking outhouse!!

Thanks. It's not quite finished, it still needs some hinge pieces and bolt heads for the hinges.

Edited August 22, 2016 by skidsolo

[Skidsolo]

More pictoral updates:

The petrol pump still needs to be weathered.

I made new doors from Basswood.

The static grass needs some more work too.

Made up some 5amp pulgs and sockets:

The kettle, teapot, mug, primus stove, shelf, table, oily rag and fire bucket were all scratched.

Edited August 22, 2016 by skidsolo

[RichO]

Getting really nice now.

[TGA]

Really wonderful man. Great work!!

[Skidsolo]

Thanks both.

This update brings it up to date:

This will be the car that is half in and half out of the garage:

I chose it for it's close resemblance to the British Ford Model Y:

It will have the guy bending over in this kit working under the bonnet.

Edited August 23, 2016 by skidsolo

[Skidsolo]

Some 'junk' to fill the space below the bench:

[JimHead23]

This is looking excellent. I feel nostalgic for a time when I wasn't even born!

[Skidsolo]

Thanks Jim,

[Darby]

Reminds me of 'Danny; Champion of the World.'

Brilliant build. Why can't all garages be like that? People actually fixing things instead of saying 'computer says the engine doesn't work.'

[Rob 1]

I really like this, very imaginative, and really captures a time and a place. Great work.

[Skidsolo]

Thanks all.

Dodgy Dennis has been wheeling and dealing again, this time he has bought a shed load of WWII ration packs some of which he's going to be storing on the shelves of the garage!!

I decided to swap the Mirror Models motorcycle for an offering by Tamiya. The MM offering is well detailed but SO delicate and SO hard to build.

Well on it's way to completion in just half an hour or so:

Made a start on the car in for repairs.

Wings assembly painted and the main bodywork assembled. What you see here in primer is a total of nine parts, all of which are somewhat tricky to assemble. Glue one part and leave to fully cure process.

All the doors can be posed open but so that I could paint as much of the body as as possible in one sitting, I glued in the rear doors. The fronts only will be open.

Colour applied and gloss to follow when it's all gassed out:

The bike is finished although I think the 'For Sale' sign is too large. Will re-do it before final installation.

[goggsy]

Excellent, you can almost smell the oil.

[colin]

Beautiful job, just one thing, for the era your going for they wouldn't have a white 13a socket, they were a brown bakelite then, and more likely to be a surface mounted one

Hope you don't mind me saying

[HansReggelsen]

I think you'll find I like it!

The one thing however that really strikes a chord with me is the 'restroom'!

My grandparents had one of these and I rembember using it! (yes I AM that old) Cold, dark, placed in the old empty stable, it was scary as hell for a little boy, especially at night!

Cheers - and thanks for the memories

Hans J

Edited September 11, 2016 by HansReggelsen

[Skidsolo]

Thanks fellas.

Hans.... I too remember those days and yes they were scary places after dark with just a candle for illumination.!!! LOL

Beautiful job, just one thing, for the era your going for they wouldn't have a white 13a socket, they were a brown bakelite then, and more likely to be a surface mounted one

Hope you don't mind me saying

I don't mind at all Colin, in fact I welcome constructive criticism. You are actually correct in what you say but back in the day (50's) I well remember seeing white versions. Research confirms this too:

Edited September 12, 2016 by skidsolo