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New view and a little digression....

Chris Nevard

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nevard_110831_BQ_IMG_1073_WEB, a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr.

 

Here's a view of Brewhouse Quay which has only been possible for a day or two since the exit to the extra fiddle yard was created. A short telephoto effect makes an interesting slightly compressed view showing off the lightweight track and various ground textures between the rails and around the yard. As soon as one views 90 degrees to the light source, all sorts of interesting things start to happen texture-wise - the lighting here simply being the built in fluorescent tube that runs along the front.

 

Finding new angles is one of the aspects that interests me most about photographing model railways, and particularly so if it's a layout that has been well photographed for the popular press many times - finding that new angle that's never been captured before gives huge satisfaction.

 

Digressing slightly; I look forward to returning to Pendon at some stage to get some new and exciting angles. The various layouts there have hardly been touched in this respect, especially that the dinkiest of cameras can now give outstanding results that will blow up to double page spread, the small camera size allowing new vistas from all sorts of snug places.

 

Really digressing - I'd love to shoot an HST in blue and grey blasting across the Vale Scene - it would be a sure hit and introduce a whole new generation to the delights of model railways!

 

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Donw
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To go with the HST would you modernise all the cottages, build some modern boxes, tarmac the roads, add cars all over the place, grub up lots of hedges and all the little changes that have transformed the countryside. That said it could make a nice photo.

Don

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James Hilton

Good luck Chris - although even to a die hard steam fan there must be some alure to the 125 - it has been the mainstay of the Great Western mainline now for my entire lifetime, if not even longer!

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Captain Kernow
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Nice photo, Chris, and a good use of Pete's gates - I'm not so sure that I can fit mine into the available space on Callow Lane, unfortunately...

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BlackRat

Great shot Chris, impossible to tell the gauge from that angle to, so theres food for thought there.

 

Interesting too about Pendon, haven't been for a bit but as I have said before many layouts are now catching up, equaling or even passing its standards of excellence (apart from the size).

 

Of course thats only my humble opinion! ;)

 

I wonder what they would be doing now with the new techniques available (static grass just for one) rapid prototyping etc etc etc.

 

The difficulty with a project like Pendon, is that it takes so long, that time allows for new methods, materials, techniques etc to develop. Nothing stands still.

 

It was only a few years ago the way ahead from dyed sawdust was dyed lint, which again has been more or less consigned to history as static grass takes over!

 

Wonder what comes next!?

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Chris Nevard

When Pendon first kicked off it was looking back hostorically only 20-30 years. Keeping the ethos correct, doing the same thing now would be looking at the 1980's. My thoughts are just for a silly half hour to run nicely tweeked modern stuff. I did actually suggest this last year when there and there and it wasn't totally dismissed "that would be great, but some of the older boys wouldn't go for it". Just imagine how good a Hanson liveried Class 59 would look with a long load of stone hoppers.......

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halfwit

Going back to the BQ photo, the track looks more like EM than OO, just proves how effective handbuilt track can be.

Just needs a small Ruston shunter...

 

Paul.

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Guest Phil

Good stuff Mr Nevard - as always.

 

 

Re the Pendon thing - I reckon you'd need to do the job properly and have a set of Brian Hanson glazed blue and grey air con Mk2s with a GW150 liveried diesel on the front.

 

A new Hornby HST might be a bit easier to do, but those Extreme Glazing windows really look the biz

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