One of the few vintage Scalextric buildings absent from my layout is the refreshments kiosk (item A228). They are occasionally seen complete on eBay but for quite high prices. I picked up a bag of bits at the recent Slot Car Festival that provided a starting point for making my own.
This had some of the right parts - but the tea urn was missing, the cake stands had no picture backing, and the base building was a pit building not the kiosk. I quickly found a missing tea urn and extra cake stand on eBay, and scanned and printed a copy of the picture backing on the latter. I also scanned the tatty insert and reprinted onto new card, and printed the right stickers for the building to disguise its pit building origins. The result is this;
You can see the insert and backing for the cake stands more clearly here:
The original kiosk has a flag with Scalextric printed on it. I didn't want to replicate that: I know my layout is only a model but I don't think it should be that obvious! So it got a Refreshments flag in the same style. And I managed to just squeeze it onto the layout by moving one of the TV camera towers to a new location.
