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More excellent work, Dave. This layout is stunning. I always look forward to your updates.

 

David

That looks really good!

That's all looking pretty damn impressive, Dave, just dripping with sleepy Edwardian atmosphere. Tiny touches, like that beautifully embedded building, really do add to the convincing impression.

 

I know it's not set in Gloucestershire, but when viewing these gorgeous imagies, I can't help but think of the mood conjured up in Adlestrop:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlestrop_(poem)

Me too. Updates on your modelling progress continue to impress me. Well done. Absolutely superb!

More excellent work, Dave. This layout is stunning. I always look forward to your updates. David

 

That looks really good!

Thanks both, really pleased you think so!

 

That's all looking pretty damn impressive, Dave, just dripping with sleepy Edwardian atmosphere. Tiny touches, like that beautifully embedded building, really do add to the convincing impression. I know it's not set in Gloucestershire, but when viewing these gorgeous imagies, I can't help but think of the mood conjured up in Adlestrop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlestrop_(poem)

Thanks Al! If my modelling can evoke the feelings described in that wonderful poem then I am delighted! Awful to think of the horrors to come ten years after the model is set.

 

Me too. Updates on your modelling progress continue to impress me. Well done. Absolutely superb!

Thanks Phil, glad you're enjoying the blog:-)Best wishes to all Dave

Absolutely gorgeous Dave - brilliant stuff.

Just a thought why not if not already too late show the odd door either ajar or open to show some life and also a glimpse of the interior, don't get me wrong top marks so far all round.

 

Kevin

Absolutely brilliant Dave. It's all just oozing atmosphere.

 

Best regards,

 

Jeremy

Gorgeous. The sign "Gentlemen"  says it all .... 

Absolutely gorgeous Dave - brilliant stuff.

Thanks Mike!

 

Just a thought why not if not already too late show the odd door either ajar or open to show some life and also a glimpse of the interior, don't get me wrong top marks so far all round.

 

Kevin

Hi Kevin, I did think about leaving a door or two open, but in the end I decided just to have one of the sash windows raised up.  Definitely too late to change now, I couldn't face digging up all my carefully applied Milliput! :-)

 

 

Absolutely brilliant Dave. It's all just oozing atmosphere.

 

Best regards,

 

Jeremy

Thanks Jeremy!

 

 

Gorgeous. The sign "Gentlemen"  says it all .... 

Lol! Thanks Dave:-) 

Words fail me,seriously good.

More wonderful modelling Dave. To me the interior works well you just see a glimpse of the interior and it looks right. Not only is the modelling top class but you have a great flair for arranging the bits and pieces. The two cats look very natural.

Don

Hi Dave,

 

Excellent as always and nice to see the human (and feline!) dimension growing on Sherton Abbas. I am a little saddened by Mrs Cruickshank though, I think Albert deserves a lesson of some sort!

 

I completely agree with you about gaps under the buildings, a remnant of the days when people rarely viewed layouts from eye-level, I think. I's a good idea with the Miliput, neater and less messy than the putty I have been using - thanks for the tip.

As I started to scoll down the page, I genuinely thought the first pic was a prototype photo.  The bleak interior looked prototypical too but I was probably thinking 1950s rather than Edwardian!

 

I think you have excelled yourself - the attention to details is brilliant and the human figures look remarkably 'real'.  I'm less sure about the cats, which at first glance seemed a bit 'dog-shaped' - not quite the sinuous feline shape.

 

Truly inspirational and fully justifying all those 5 star ratings.

Words fail me,seriously good.

Thanks Rob!

 

More wonderful modelling Dave. To me the interior works well you just see a glimpse of the interior and it looks right. Not only is the modelling top class but you have a great flair for arranging the bits and pieces. The two cats look very natural.

Don

Thanks Don! I throughly enjoy adding all the "bits and pieces" it's when a layout starts to come to life:-)

 

Hi Dave,

 

Excellent as always and nice to see the human (and feline!) dimension growing on Sherton Abbas. I am a little saddened by Mrs Cruickshank though, I think Albert deserves a lesson of some sort!

 

Yes poor Lily looks as if she has had a fairly tough life! I'm afraid Albert's promotion to Head Ganger has rather gone to his head and he's getting a bit above himself. I've also heard rumours that he's recently taken up lamping with his lurcher and most nights comes home with a brace of rabbits from the local estate. Eventually he"ll get caught and when the station master hears of it he'll get his comeuppance!

 

I completely agree with you about gaps under the buildings, a remnant of the days when people rarely viewed layouts from eye-level, I think. I's a good idea with the Miliput, neater and less messy than the putty I have been using - thanks for the tip.

Miliput is really useful stuff for filling in cracks and those little cotton wool ended ear buds once dampened with water smooth out the miliput beautifully :-)

 

As I started to scoll down the page, I genuinely thought the first pic was a prototype photo. The bleak interior looked prototypical too but I was probably thinking 1950s rather than Edwardian!

 

I think you have excelled yourself - the attention to details is brilliant and the human figures look remarkably 'real'. I'm less sure about the cats, which at first glance seemed a bit 'dog-shaped' - not quite the sinuous feline shape.

 

Truly inspirational and fully justifying all those 5 star ratings.

Thanks Mike glad you're enjoying the latest update:-)

 

I guess Billy and Bertie's less than sylph like figures are down to their success as hunters and the over indulgent hand of the Stationmaster at feeding time:-)

 

Best wishes to all

 

Dave

Yes poor Lily looks as if she has had a fairly tough life! I'm afraid Albert's promotion to Head Ganger has rather gone to his head and he's getting a bit above himself. I've also heard rumours that he's recently taken up lamping with his lurcher and most nights comes home with a brace of rabbits from the local estate. Eventually he"ll get caught and when the station master hears of it he'll get his comeuppance!

 

Another bonus of railway modelling, you get to play God and design people's destinies :-)

 

"Lamping with his lurcher". That's two new words for my English vocabulary, thanks Dave!

Another bonus of railway modelling, you get to play God and design people's destinies :-)

Probably just as well that I can't do it in real life! :-)

 

 "Lamping with his lurcher". That's two new words for my English vocabulary, thanks Dave!

I'd be interested to hear the conversation that you drop that phrase into:-)Best wishesDave

The comment about the indulgent feeding of the stationmaster made me smile. I think we know a stationmaster rather fond of his Ginger cats.

Poachers can be wily, one from Ironbridge was walking home with two rabbits when stopped by the local constable. He duly handed the rabbits over to the officer. On reaching the police station he thanked the officer for carrying his rabbits. The local squire had been plagued by rabbits and sought his help. The two rabbits were  payment for his time. 

Don

The comment about the indulgent feeding of the stationmaster made me smile. I think we know a stationmaster rather fond of his Ginger cats.

Quite right too! There is something special about a ginger puss, many years ago I had one called Izzy who was registered at the vet as Isambard Kingdom Cat:-)

 

Poachers can be wily, one from Ironbridge was walking home with two rabbits when stopped by the local constable. He duly handed the rabbits over to the officer. On reaching the police station he thanked the officer for carrying his rabbits. The local squire had been plagued by rabbits and sought his help. The two rabbits were  payment for his time. Don

Excellent tale! Sounds just the sort of scheme that our Albert might be involved in!Dave

Hi Dave, waiting in eager expectation for your next entry...it's like waiting for MRJ...! The suspense.

In the meantime, I wonder if I might trouble you to ask a question about where your figures come from? I have come across Andrew Stadden but wonder if there are others you use, typically of workmen, yard hands, idle boys, mangy dogs, that sort of thing.

Many thanks, Richard

Hi Dave, waiting in eager expectation for your next entry...it's like waiting for MRJ...! The suspense. In the meantime, I wonder if I might trouble you to ask a question about where your figures come from? I have come across Andrew Stadden but wonder if there are others you use, typically of workmen, yard hands, idle boys, mangy dogs, that sort of thing. Many thanks, Richard

Hi Richard, in a similar fashion to MRJ my response is late! :-)  The figures I've used are either form Andrew Stadden's excellent range, or the equal excellent offerings from Heroes of the footplate http://www.invertrain.com/maker.php?maker=Heroes+of+the+Footplate.  I'm still on the look out for some decent looking Edwardian station staff.

 

I hope this helps

 

Best wishes

 

Dave