It begins! (Riverside Works photo diorama)

Entry posted by PannierTanker14 August 31, 2019

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It begins!

(as soon as the wood board gets cut to size I will put up the build process on a ‘topic’ for easy updates)

This is the rough shape of the buildings surrounding the photo diorama ‘Riverside Works’. They are in the shape of a building I found at Calke Abbey, which is a National Trust owned area. In this area is a stable building that reminded me of a locomotive shed, which then sparked the idea of the diorama. (See second attached photo)

The buildings will be scratch built and based on the stable building’s industrial style shape. The track will be inset. Where the pencil is, there will be an openable door so if I ever gain a Two coach DMU I can display only one coach and hide it in the door so it gives the illusion that it is coming out of the shed as a full train.

: It will also be used to photograph other models of the same scale like tanks, cars and planes :

(((My wagon models, be it in O or OO, carry stuff often because that’s what wagons do. In this photo the 16ton mineral wagon is carrying wires, screws, head lamps and a shunter’s pole made out of a cocktail stick)))