| Some years
ago when I was passing through London I had some spare time in the
morning. I had decided to please myself with a visit to a train model
shop. Map in hand, and London Underground all around - up again at
street level I finally found the shop. Enjoying model trains I had
hoped this would be a haven. The man in the shop was almost polite when
I said I just wanted to have a look. There were models all over this
tiny shop. With thousands of boxes. But alas, boxes behind enough dusty
glass and odor of old cigar to stagger my senses. However, when I
discovered a cute yellow van with |
"Colman's Mustard
Traffic" painted all over - mission was completed. I like yellow and I
didn't have any N scale. The man was left as more anaemic than
when I arrived. A few years on I learned that I had, that morning
in London, in fact started to collect items for the above shelfpiece.
But prior to that London visit my son had got an N-scale tram for his
birthday, and there was some extra track lying around. Then, some years
after this, on a holiday in the UK, we bought a jar of Colman's
mustard. I assume Colman's was bought because my superego saw something
there. We didn't empty the jar then, but brought it half empty back to
Norway. |
The emptier the jar
the more I got aware of the inevitable. I just had to make this
installation of a Colman's van in a Colman's jar. Who needs ship in
bottle when there are vans around? I had a yellow Colman's van and a
Colman's mustard jar. I had tracks. I found some epoxy glue and sand
and mounted the track and the van inside the jar. I used fast epoxy and
the tracks soon solidified with the wheels on the track and the roof
half a millimetre from the jar top. The van now moves, but between the
8 mm journys it must rest assured in its confinement sharing the fate
of many a proud ship.
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