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Very evocative, as ever, Job. I also like the look of old shopfronts in black and white photos. I don't know why they appear more attractive than contemporary scenes, but they do.

Very evocative, as ever, Job. I also like the look of old shopfronts in black and white photos. I don't know why they appear more attractive than contemporary scenes, but they do.

Thanks, Barry.

I believe that the most important reason is, that shop owners have more freedom in choose the colour and font. In the 1950’s most shop sign were hand painted and made. Now we have modern materials and techniques.

And a black and white picture has a totally different atmosphere than a black and white picture. And don’t forget in the 1950’s pictures were developed in the photographers own dark room. For that reason I like black and white pictures, also from modern photographers. Now we use digital pictures which can be changed in any way om the computer.

Thanks for the PDF Job. It's very advanced stuff, with different colours chemes for North and South facing facades!  The guide to fonts is particularly useful for my purposes, as I have sometimes wondered about this. 

 

Both photos give off a sense of calm and everyday life, I think. In the photo of J. Baker it is fact that the girl is skipping that tells us that there are no dangers around and all is well. In the photo of Dixons there are no people, and yet the open door and the sign outside signals that there is life here and people are going about their daily routines. 

 

I really like these little signals that your dioramas contain, always with restraint and not too much.

Thanks for the PDF Job. It's very advanced stuff, with different colours chemes for North and South facing facades!  The guide to fonts is particularly useful for my purposes, as I have sometimes wondered about this. 

 

Both photos give off a sense of calm and everyday life, I think. In the photo of J. Baker it is fact that the girl is skipping that tells us that there are no dangers around and all is well. In the photo of Dixons there are no people, and yet the open door and the sign outside signals that there is life here and people are going about their daily routines. 

 

I really like these little signals that your dioramas contain, always with restraint and not too much.

I'm glad the PDF is useful to you, Mikkel

 

Playing children in a street is really for the 1950’s and early 1960’s. Now a days in the Netherlands most children don’t play in the street. A lot of children are playing inside using digital plays.

 

And thanks for the compliment about the little signals.

There's a fantastic shot of Bridport high street in the new Wild Swan book, just a simple B&W shot from the early 1950s but almost achingly nostalgic, even though I wasn't alive at the time. A Milk Bar, Leaker's cake shop, Hilton & Moss Chemists, awnings over the pavement, old cars, ladies on bicycles, a Woolworths, and at the end of street, a big banner proclaiming the "West Bay Regatta August Bank Holiday Week".

 

I'm not sure it was a better time but it was certainly a more visually attractive scene.

Thanks for pointing my to this book. I'll keep it in mind. Could be a nice birthday present.

Hi Job, it's been a long time since I posted; I seem to lose track of where people 'get to' on this Forum. I was thinking of you only recently and here you are. Quite a while since I saw these photos for the first time but even before I saw them just now I thought, "Oh yes; the girl, the chip shop." Yours is the kind of modelling that stays in my mind. I've just been looking at your paving and cobble setts as well. Wonderful modelling, as ever.

Steve.

Thanks Steve. I now mostly post in the Blog pages. Because I now also use other kit materials and other ways to create my diorama's.