RSPX Station Parade Extension kit

This kit is to be used with the RSP kit, and provides a further two shop units at either end. Also included are a further six shop fronts, which with the nine included in the RSP kit gives a large choice.

Of course you could add two RSPX kits and have a parade of eleven shops!

Price: A

A parade of shops dating from the nineteen-thirties in typical art deco style with curved windows and balconies. Shop fronts are representative of the 1960s period.
Model shown with added paving (not supplied in kit). Completed model is approximately 18.5" wide by 3.5" deep.

Price: B

BTG Burtons tailors, Greenwich

A distinctive art deco shop in the iconic Burtons style. This half relief model is designed for a corner site, measuring approximately 7.5" by 7.5". The building itself is about 3" deep, thus fitting neatly alongside other buildings in the range. In the picture above it is positioned next to the Odeon cinema (CWLO) and Woolworths (WWMD), and card paving has been added.

Price: B

CCOG Cheltenham Gaumont Palace / Odeon cinema

Measuring approximately 14" wide by 3" deep, this half relief model of the art deco Gaumont Palace cinema in Cheltenham can be built to represent the building as it was in the nineteen thirties, or in nineteen eighties Odeon style. A selection of suitable posters are provided.

Price: B

CFHC Forest Hill Capitol

This half relief model of the Capitol in Forest Hill, S London measures approximately 10.5" wide by 3" deep.
It can be built to represent the cinema in 1946 or 1965.

Price: B

CKK Kingston Kinema / Studio 7 cinema

The Kingston Kinema cinema received a 'modern' makeover in the early 60s. Later it was rebranded Studio 7. In neither of these incarnations was it an especially attractive building. It was however next door to the renowned Kingston Bus Station. The model makes a good companion to the bus station model which can be seen on the LT Central Garages page.

Price: B

CWLO Whalebone Lane, Chadwell Heath Odeon.

A low relief model of a classic style Odeon cinema. It is approximately 11" wide by 4" deep, and comes with a choice of posters for three different films.

Price: B

 FLATS - half relief block of flats

This model is based on a block in Salford. It measures 17" tall. The building is a half relief representation that can be built with either a  triangular or rectangular plan.

Two kits could be built together to give a complete building on a footprint of 7" x 11".

Price: D

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FLATS - Triangular plan form

Two styles of semi detached houses common throughout the country.

Each pair of houses has a footprint of 6" x 3.5", and a single garage. 

SEMA

Traditional style houseswith

single garage.

Price: AA

SEMB

Art deco style houses with single garage.

Price:AA

See some of these houses in a scenic diorama on the Kingsway Inspirations site.

TERA small terraced houses

These small terraced houses are based on some found in Old Ford Road. Typical of hundreds that once stood in the east end, this half relief model forms a block of four houses approximately 9" wide by 3" deep, (or a little less if the optional garden walls are not used.)

Price: AA

These two photos show a modified run of TERA kits to provide a line of houses up a hill.

TERBa (stucco) large Georgian style terraced houses

These terraced houses are based on some in West London. The kit comprises four houses and measures approximately 10.5" x 4.5" including the paving. The real houses would have basements below ground level which can be difficult on solid topped baseboards, however the model has printed 'glazed' tiles to suggest the cellar windows continue lower down. For those ready to cut an opening in the baseboard, the front wall of the house can continue down to below ground level.

The kit includes solid boundary walls as shown above, but these can be replaced by plastic railings available from Ratio  ClickHERE. and enter Ratio 434 into the search. The railings can be seen in the picture below right.

Note that similar houses (TERB b) are available with the upper storeys rendered in brick - see below.

 Price: A

Using a number of these houses will quickly add some character to a scene. For more examples of what can be done, look on the Kingsway Inspirations pages.

TERBb

large Georgian style terraced houses (brick)

The sizes and details of these  houses are exactly the same as the TERBa kit described above.

Note that the picture shows just two adjacent houses (i.e. half a standard kit). It has also been fitted with the Ratio 434 railings as described above.

Price: A

ACT Acton Fire Station

 A seven bay nineteen-thirties style fire station that is still in operation in West London. The model is half relief, the doors can be modelled open or closed. It measures nearly 22" wide by 5" deep.

Price: C

LEY Leytonstone Fire Station

A half relief model of a typical early twentieth century style of station common in many towns. The model measures approximately 11" wide and 5" deep.

Price: B

ROM Romford Fire Station

Romford fire station has provided fire cover for at least 50 years. This semi-relief model is approximately 14" wide and 6" deep. The station tower is included (12" high). It was located to the rear and one side of the station. Doors can be modelled open or closed.

 Price: B

PAV Paving

Three sheets of card paving for use with Kingsway Models kits. This is printed on stout mounting card 1.25mm thick, equivalent to a kerb depth of nearly 4". It just needs to be cut out, have the edge darkened with a 3B pencil and stuck down on a baseboard.This paving will match that contained in many of the building kits.

The kit provides over 100" of straight paving with corners as well. Each pack includes a large corner suitable for use with many of the 'corner site' buildings such as Burtons and Bounds Green station.

Price: AA

FB Ferodo Bridge

A once  common sight in towns across the country, this Ferodo bridge can provide a period scene for use on a model railway layout or simply a diorama for 4mm scale vehicles. The kit can be constructed to make a complete single span bridge or can be built as a half relief double span. Bridge walls and piers are included, but the builder will need to provide the bridge deck (a sheet of stout card, or maybe ply or MDF if a model railway track is to be laid). The bridge spans are about 6.5". The piers allow for a deck about 6" wide.

Price: AA

KG Kingsway Garage  - (Esso version shown above)

This filling station is based on one that stood in Birmingham, but is similar to many that operated in the 1960s.
The model comes complete with a printed forecourt, and has a footprint of approximately 10" by 8".
Alternative fascias, pumps and signs are provided to represent four different oil companies of the period.

Price: B

 

 MWB Motorway Bridge

(half relief)

Thiskit provides parts to build a half relief model of a typical motorway bridge - as used on the M1.

Please note: only the parts for the bridge are included. You will need other items to complete the scene.

Full instructions including measurements and advice for reproducing the road surface are given. The backscene picture can be freely downloaded from theKingsway Downloads site. 

The bridge is scaled to cross a full six lane (plus two hard shoulders) motorway in 1/76 scale measuring 16" wide.

 Please understand that the kit only contains the card parts seen below left.

You will need to provide a card deck for the bridge and also a base (MDF?) to build the scene on. The road surface is grey car aerosol paint, and the markings are simply strips of adhesive paper. The weathering is done by rubbing in some charcoal. 

Grass mat and 'greenery' can be obtained from model shops. 

Producing the realistic scene above is much easier than you might imagine!

Putting together two half relief kits. one can create an entire bridge.

It would also be possible to represent two bridges - one at either end of the scene - perhaps representing the roundabout frquently found at motorway junctions.

Again, remember the kit comprises the bridge faces only. I have used black card for the single carriageway road on the bridge with white adhesive paper for the markings. The paving is from the PAV kit.

QR Oxford (Rewley Road) Station

The Oxford Rewley Rd station of the Buckinghamshire Railway opened in 1851. The building's structure was built to the same design as that of the Crystal Palace built for the Great Exhibition the same year. Passenger services ended one hundred years later in 1951, and after fifty years of gradual decay the building was re-erected at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton Road in 2001. The kit depicts the station in LMS days and measures approximately 13" by 7".

Price: B

QV  Queen Victoria Public House.

A typical corner site public house based on a existing building in South Bermondsey, London. The building has rear detailing as well as a choice of four different names. The building is approximately 5" x 7.5".

Price: B

SLDO South Lambeth Postal Delivery Office

Based on a still existing building in Wandsworth Road, South London, this postal delivery office is modelled fully. The length of the sorting hall has been slightly reduced but with the extra walling included a yard can be added in which to display the range of Royal Mail vehicles now available. The building (without the yard) measures approximately 11.5" by 7".

Price: B

STE Streatham Telephone Exchange (Leigham Avenue)

A model of  the frontage of the exchange  providing a parking area in which to display a number of GPO Telephones vehicles. The model measures approximately 13" wide by 6" deep (allowing for an access either side.

Although this is a telephone exchange, the architecture is similar to that used for post offices, and alternative signage is included for this purpose. (see picture below)

The kit also includes a model of an UAX (unattended automatic exchange) commonly used in rural areas. Just add some fencing and perhaps a call box, and add to any rural scene.

Price (for both STE and UAX) : B

 Below is the Streatham exchange model converted to a town post office. The plastic K6 telephone boxes are not included (available in the Merit range from PECO)