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Hi Job,

 

I can't help you with the subject but I do like the idea. Nice of you to dedicate it to your wife, you may be a lucky guy but it sounds like she is too 

 

I like the man leading the cow/bull! Can I ask who made the cows, please?

 

Edited May 9, 2019 by Mikkel

3 hours ago, Mikkel said:

Hi Job,

 

I can't help you with the subject but I do like the idea. Nice of you to dedicate it to your wife, you may be a lucky guy but it sounds like she is too 

 

I like the man leading the cow/bull! Can I ask who made the cows, please?

 

 

Mikkel, I agree with you about the first sentence.

The cows and bull you can find here RDS10: http://johndaymodels.webplus.net/scenics.html 

I think you would like the Victorian postbox as well.

 

Hi Job, i'm really looking forward to seeing this develop:-)

 

I wasn't around in the 50's, but as a small boy in the mid 60's I spent a lot of time on my Uncle's farm in rural Staffordshire.  The lanes there were tarmac and then covered in fine chippings with grass growing in patches down the centre of the road.  There were certainly no curbs at the side of the lane, just grass banks full of wild flowers, cow parsley, rosebay willow herb along with primroses and bluebells in the Spring. 

 

Best wishes

 

Dave

46 minutes ago, wenlock said:

Hi Job, i'm really looking forward to seeing this develop:-)

 

I wasn't around in the 50's, but as a small boy in the mid 60's I spent a lot of time on my Uncle's farm in rural Staffordshire.  The lanes there were tarmac and then covered in fine chippings with grass growing in patches down the centre of the road.  There were certainly no curbs at the side of the lane, just grass banks full of wild flowers, cow parsley, rosebay willow herb along with primroses and bluebells in the Spring.  

 

Best wishes

 

Dave

 

Thanks Dave.

 

That's for me very useful information. Would be a challenge to create the verge of a road in front of the diorama  with wild flowers, etc.

20 hours ago, Job's Modelling said:

 

Mikkel, I agree with you about the first sentence.

The cows and bull you can find here RDS10: http://johndaymodels.webplus.net/scenics.html 

I think you would like the Victorian postbox as well.

 

 

Thank you Job, I didn't know that Daryle's range included livestock and figures etc.

I shall scan some photographs and paintings from my book collection on old cottages and farmhouses, Job. Will send them by message attachment so you can use them for reference.

 

Some of Stanley Spencer’s paintings have farmhouses similar to your model. Although these paintings date to the late 1930s, country buildings and roads would not have changed a lot over the next 20 years, as the boom in car ownership didn’t really take off until the 1960s. 

 

https://paintdropskeepfalling.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/stanley-spencer-exhibition-at-compton-verney/

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/gardening/2016/04/15/cottages-edit_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.jpg?imwidth=450

 

As Dave (Wenlock) has described, roads to farms can be narrow, with grass verges, lined with thick hedges - some farm roads could be rutted, with potholes and  grass sprouting in the middle. The top surface of the road would be chippings from local stone quarries. Here in the Highlands the roads in the 1950s were often a pinky red colour. Maybe someone who grew up in the area you are modelling could advise on local stone. An old farmhouse path could have paths made from large slabs of slate, or simply gravel.

 

Good luck with the model! 

 

Marlyn

Edited May 10, 2019 by Marly51

17 hours ago, Marly51 said:

I shall scan some photographs and paintings from my book collection on old cottages and farmhouses, Job. Will send them by message attachment so you can use them for reference.

 

Some of Stanley Spencer’s paintings have farmhouses similar to your model. Although these paintings date to the late 1930s, country buildings and roads would not have changed a lot over the next 20 years, as the boom in car ownership didn’t really take off until the 1960s. 

 

https://paintdropskeepfalling.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/stanley-spencer-exhibition-at-compton-verney/

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/gardening/2016/04/15/cottages-edit_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.jpg?imwidth=450

 

As Dave (Wenlock) has described, roads to farms can be narrow, with grass verges, lined with thick hedges - some farm roads could be rutted, with potholes and  grass sprouting in the middle. The top surface of the road would be chippings from local stone quarries. Here in the Highlands the roads in the 1950s were often a pinky red colour. Maybe someone who grew up in the area you are modelling could advise on local stone. An old farmhouse path could have paths made from large slabs of slate, or simply gravel.

 

Good luck with the model! 

 

Marlyn

Hi Marlyn,

 

Many thanks for your information.

Got also some useful information from Nick Salzman, who has a great blog: https://moorestonemodeller.wordpress.com/2019/05/08/wheelwright-for-pendon/ 

A lot of inspiration and some nice articles.

Looking forward to your scans.

 

Greetings,

Job