It's railway modelling, but then again it isn't quite. I'm a great fan of Colin T Gifford's photographs so I thought I'd have a go at 'doing a Gifford' on some 7mm models I've been working on. Evening drawing in at a country station. Old hand and new recruit contemplate a wagon that's ended up in the wrong place for tomorrow morning's shunt.

It's a composite of 3 photographs. One with wagon and figures, one with distant landscape and sky, the other with foreground grass. The wagon and figures are 7mm. The figures are from Modelu and the wagon is from the MMP kit for the diagram 1/108 mineral wagon in S7 (though who can tell?). I'm starting out in S7 and there's all my 7mm stock in one photo! There's almost as much time faffing with Lightroom and Photoshop as there is modelling. Well, not quite.

As somebody who doesn't have much room for a layout (certainly not in S7) this is an alternative. It's more like military modelling. Small scenes, dioramas, snapshots of everyday life on the railway.