For the first time in six weeks I got a quiet, peaceful - delightful - Saturday. I spent most of it cleaning up the huge mess I have let accumulate in my workshop as I completed several recent projects - putting everything back in its place, etc. Afterwards I wanted only a small, several-hour project and this was perfect. I've wanted to have Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle and his driver, Sam Stewart, from Foyle's War, on the layout for some time. That series is among my wife's and my favorites and we are excited that the eighth season (the war is long over by now, he joins MI5) will be released in the US next month. We can't wait: until then I modeled our favorite scene from the series, although having no seaside warehouse district on the layout, I had to move it to the edge of town.
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Very neat Lee. I like these little vignettes on a layout, they give it alot of personality.
Wonderful! Foyle's War may be my favorite TV series of all time!
It is wonderful: good mysteries, very atmospheric, and incredibly historically correct: a history lesson in nearly every show! My scene had some "historical" inaccuracies which I corrected this morning . . .
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It looks like a scene from the lower Iverson!
Lee tried to find one over here but the only one is a 15/60 police car 1/43 @ a staggering £75 approx.$112 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brooklin-Lansdowne-IPV14-1948-Wolseley-18-85-1-43-Int-Police-/380373092694?pt=UK_ToysGames_DiecastVehicles_DiecastVehicles_JN&hash=item589000c956
James
Thank you for looking! That is a lot of pay, and the last time I ordered from the UK or Australian e-bay, I ended up paying about that for shipping on top of having to buy the model! Ouch!! Below I have a photo comparing the model you found to the one I have on the layout now: a resin model of a Russian Gaz rip off of a mid-30s Ford sedan with the hood lengthened, a new grill, etc. It's an adequate match, quite close in many respects. You can see that the major mismatch is in the rear - my car has no trunk at all.
Foyle and Sam will just have to do with this substitute for now. It is only a matter of time before I find either a Wolesley or another car that is much much closer(some mid-'30s US cars were very close to the Wolesley's appearance), at a much better price with only domestic, or even free shipping).
Again, thanks so much for looking. I could not even find one for sale, period.
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There's another show I need to catch up on ... I just remember the bombing scene from Season 1:Episode 1.
Aaron
Lee,
Just a thought. It looks like you could use green or white putty to build up around the spare tire to create the trunk, and extend the 'swoosh' behind the rear wheels.
I thought about that Len, even cobbled together a rough prototype by taping a small shaped block of wood there. It actually looked worse. The rear axle of my car is father forward than in the Wolseley: when I added the trunk to my car that fact stook out terribly - weird how the eye works.
I'll just leave this car like this for now. A Wolseley or something will turn up soon.