Not Its Best Side!
Holding EIGHT bits of plastic kit in place whilst the glue sets firmly is an impossibility, but glueing each one separately would have been equally challenging. The problem is simply that the glue is actually a solvent - it makes a weld by softening the two parts so they almost merge into one. Prising bits apart after the glue has set is not a realistic option.
So the destructive glue can easily get on the gluers fingers and if seven of the eight parts of the tender suddenly collapse (which they did) the glue then gets on the pristine surface of one or more parts.
Hopefully the worst of the damage can be rubbed down by a bit of very fine sand/glass/emery paper - and a coat of gorgeous green livery will hide, if not a multitude, certainly a significant percentages of fbb's ham-fisted modelling non-skills. Which is why yesterday's picture was of the "better" (better-not-perfect) side.
Still a few smudges to rub down.
How Many Stations At Kiev Station?
In yesterdays blog we found the grand railway station building ...
... with a very un-grand bus station and tram terminus nearby.
In the above Google Earth picture, the tram turnaround is top left and the bus station bottom centre and right. The route between them is just a footway.
Somewhere below all this is Metro Line 1. 
Google Maps shows the route as a red line.
The use of Metro stations as bomb shelters in the current crisis has been well but tragically documented; but in happier times Metro 1 runs Underground from its eastern terminus ...
... right across the city until it reaches the "Metro Bridge" across the Dnipro River (as we saw in yesterdays piece) ...
... after which it is on the surface to its terminus and storage sidings at Lisova.
But, next to the grandiose main railway station building is another slightly less grand edifice ...
This serves the suburban platforms at the northern end of the main station. Here it is on an aerial view.
Then on the western side of the tracks and opposite the classic building is a later addition - a "new" entrance building but grand in its own right.
But there's more!
Lost in the clutter that lies between the tram terminus and the bus station, and hidden behind yet another grand building ...
... is this, as shown on Google Maps, as "Pivnichna". No idea at all!
But click on the little grey blob (oddly not blue but with a "train" icon) and we read ...
... which Google Translate tell us is ...
... the City Electric Train.
But aren't they ALL electric?
So what is special about this extra and almost hidden station?
More tomorrow.
Bright New Buses At Weston.
The Badgerline brand sure stands out in a shady location in Weston super Mare.
Very cheery and probably creating desire?
And From Mr Stenning, A Grump!
All will be revealed tomorrow.
But what arouses the ire of the Bearded Bus Beautifier from the Bush?
Next Variety (inc Kiev Kyiv Київ) blog : Tues 22 Mar
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