Photo diorama - no name yet, suggestions please
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I've put a few of these pictures up on various threads, but thought I'd bring the topic together within my blog as the diorama is now finished.
This idea started off from a photo I took of a high level rail line which runs through Leeds.
I was taken by the variety of wood finishes on the wall, and wondered how I would make a model to represent it. One thing led to another and having been impressed with Sandhill's 'Brookstone' and Coachman's carriage photo track, I thought I'd have a go at something similar.
So, armed with a stanley knife and an A3 piece of black foamboard, I created a short baseboard. I've been to the loco yard at Llangollen, and whilst I took probably the best photos in the world, ever, on my SLR (before I realised there was no film in...), I do remember the ground was virtually black from the years of coal, oil, ash and soot.
I attached two pieces of straight track, then covered the surrounding ground in 1mm card. Paper was then laid between the edge of the rail and over the card, to hide the chairs. Similar paper was added between the tracks (in the same way that new Peco flexi track inserts are fitted) to hid the sleepers. All this was give a coat of blackboard paint, then crushed coal was added in a bed of pva glue. The road was coloured using make-up from the £1 shop, the pavements are Slaters paper.
The walls and arches are scalescenes aged red brick, with the actual arch stones very kindly provided by John Wiffen from a de-skewed verison of my original photo.
The upper edge of the wall is a strip of patterned wood, as found in the dowling and shaped wood section of your local d-i-y emporium, then painted with a suitable stone colour and dry-brushed with a dark green. The main walls have also had various shades of weathering powders (more makeup...) applied.
The fences are Ratio again painted and weathered to look old.
Each of the arch in-fill panels can be removed and swapped around, the idea is I'll create some more which can be era-related - fly-posters for gigs, for example, would help define a period in time. Similarly the billboard on the end wall can be changed for others with different, time-specific adverts.
So what of the rolling stock to go on the track ?
These are some of Kernow 08 I've weathered. I've got plenty more locos, both steam and diesel to have a go at, these will appear on here as time permits.
These are some of a Class 25 - straight out of the box.
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