Mile End Box Build
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Takes a lot of painting this does. This is after about 5 coats of red,
and some weathering. Mainly pencil shavings to get it good and dirty -
shaved 4B lead using the side of a matchbox, applied with a dry brush.
The bits of dried glue on the signs are because they were a bit too short
and a bit too bright a red. So I took them off again. I'm going to
try and get some darker and longer signs printed out.
June 21st - Happy Solstice! Well I got some new signs done, a much
darker red. I've stuck them on, touched up any dodgy bits of red, and
applied a first coat of matt varnish.
Once more the flash glares everything out, so these are taken without
flash. It makes things a bit more yellow than they should be (the roof
sign writing is plain white), but I don't think it looks too bad. I'm
afraid I've taken artistic licence and put all 4 "Fire Brigade" roof signs on,
even though I remember at least 2 being missing.
If nothing else, it's certainly the most niche model I've ever seen. I
mean there probably aren't a thousand people alive in the world today who would
recognise what this is. I remember the windows being basically sheets of
metal painted over with the same red paint, but with the rust showing
through. Even a non-flash photo still tends to obscure the
weathering, but trust me, it's there.
I've tried to be pretty accurate with the front of the box as
well. The door is similar to the Crich box, and appears to be either on
backwards, or simply with filled-in panels. The handle is gone, leaving
two holes. I couldn't see a keyhole on my photos, so I guess it was
long since filled in and painted over.
So there we go. My homage to a unique variant of the Metropolitan
Police Box... is finally finished.
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