Job's Modelling

Thank you. Still learning from other modelers.

Thanks Mikkel. Modelling helps me to keep my mind "empty". I still have to figure out who is living in the cottage, but that is for one of the later entries.

Thanks for the compliment and comment. I will keep your comment on the window sills in mind for my next buildings.

Littleworth is the village at the end of the branch line from Northall. I have finished the main building of first model for Littleworth: a detached cottage. On the left side I have planned a garage. A low relief kit of Petite Properties and a picture from internet are used as a base. The Flemish bond brick texture is from Wordsworth Models. Free to download. All the other used textures are from Scalescenes, except for the curtains. I used for the roof some useful advice from the excellent book of David Wright “Making rural buildings.” This is the way I made the roof: The Scalescenes texture is A4 filled with rows of clay tiles. Scalescenes provides also an A4 with lines for gluing the tiles in the right position. I didn’t want a clean roof and searched for an example on the website of Textures.com. I use this to create the roof for my cottage. On the picture you can see the process: 1. Glue the lines on the roof 2. Gluing the clay tiles on 220 gsm cardstock 3. Cutting a line of clay tiles 4. Giving the individual line his shape 5. Colouring the underside of the row with a raw umber pastel pencil 6. Adding the shaped and coloured row to the roof 7. Repeating step 3 to 6 And of course, a picture of the finished cottage. A picture in this size shows my some points that are waiting for my pastel pencil and a chimney pot that is not correctly pushed in. Will be continued. As usual comment are much appreciated. Kind regards, Job

Some great models on a nicely modelled layout.

Again some nice pictures from your layout. Love the Hornby Class 20 combo hauls a short engineering train picture.

I like the shunting pictures. I always enjoy watching some traffic on your layout.

You are a modelling hero. Congratulations,

Everything got upside down One So, we made our plans. Then my wife had a serious fall in the bathroom and insured her back badly. Her recovery will take some time. The Billy cabinet has now to wait for a while. But that is now problem. Two I want to thank everyone who gave me useful information for the design of my Billy plank. I already started with making a new plan. Three One of the advices was to buy the excellent book Modelling Grassland and landscape detailing from Gordon Gravett. I also bought Creating the rural scene – A guide for Railway Modellers and Diorama Model Makers from David Wright. When I browsed the books, I noticed that there was still a lot to learn for me. So, I will go back for now to the building of small dioramas. In that way I can try out the several techniques I want to use for my Billy plank diorama and built some rural scenes. In this way I can support my wife with her recovery and do some technique developing modelling. Kind regards, Job

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

A great addition to your station. I also forgot to plan some telegraph poles along the road of my farm diorama. Thanks for all the information, will have further look at that. Again some great modelling, that brings your station more alive.

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.

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.

In the past I have to do my built diorama’s away. Nothing bad about that, but my wife likes my diorama modelling. Yes, I’m a lucky guy with that. But now I had to find another way for creating diorama’s that could be placed in the living room. On a Facebook group I saw someone who exhibited his Petite Property models in a showcase. In the latest numbers of the BRM magazine there is an article about building a layout in a Billy shelf. My wife liked that idea. So, my next IKEA challenge will be to build a diorama on a Billy shelf. This diorama will be dedicated to her. The diorama will be a farm scene with Hereford cows and other animals. I love those Pendon farm side scenes, but I have to do something different here. Left scene Middle scene Right scene But my knowledge about this subject is limited. So, I need your advice. I will start with the left part: a farm situated on a country lane between two places. The cars on the picture I will not used. In front af the farm there will be a Rover P4 75, another white metal kit from the John Day range. The other cars are a Jowell Bradford van on the road and a Austin A70 pick up for a milk delivery scene. The vegetable garden will become a garden with an apple tree, flowers and some vegetables. The farm will be card build using the farm from Scalescenes in aged brown brick. First of all, can anyone give me some advice about modelling an early 1950’s country lane? And of course, all information about this subject is welcome. Greetings, Job

We have done this before and have learned to communicate to solve this kind of problems. Most important is that she can receive the help she needs to handle it. Thanks for the comment on my scene. The colour blue was not meant to be a corporate livery. I painted the coalmen first completely in grey, but on the advice of Daryle Toney I used a blue colour. Think the result is better now. Was surprised by a comment of my daughter: "Your built Austin K8 lorry has more character than the other model (an Oxford Diecast K8)".

Thanks for the reply. Hope you will find a suitable model in N gauge. It must be possible to model some coal sacks in O gauge using a modelling clay like DAS.

My condolences for your loss. I loved reading his blog.

For the first time in my modelling career I built a white metal car kit., an Austin K8 coal lorry from John Day models. I have to thank Daryle Toney for his, very helpful, support. I like to create little scenes for my models. To create the scene a used a scenic set from the John Day range: RDS 2 Coalmen and coal load. I placed the scene in a diorama I built in the past. I hope you like the final result. I have enjoyed building it. As usual suggestions and comment are welcome. Greetings, Job

I have to make some change of plans. So, I have to skip my third IKEA challenge. A couple of years ago my wife made a serious fall. Now she is diagnosed with an acquired brain injury (ABI). This means we have to make some adaptions in our home. One of the things she wants to change is removing smaller things that we have to keep clean by dusting, including the small diorama’s that are standing on a cabinet in our living room. We have already found a solution that was fine for both of us. But more about that in a later entry. For my third Ikea challenge I had designed a coal delivery scene. On the website of John Day models, I saw a nice coal lorry. But I like Austin models and he has also an Austin K8 flatbed lorry. I asked him if it could be used as a coal lorry. I included a photo from internet with my request. Then he offered me to make an Austin K8 coal lorry. So, for the first time in my modelling career I built a white metal car kit. I have to thank Daryle Toney for his, very helpful, support. As you know I like to create little scenes. To create the scene a used a scenic set from the John Day range: RDS 2 Coalmen and coal load. I placed the scene in a diorama I built in the past. I hope you like the final result. I have enjoyed building it. As usual suggestions and comment are welcome. Greetings, Job

Shortliner, I love the idea. But because of the angle I used to create the scene, it is not possible to create it. Such a small box has also his limitations.

Mikkel, thanks for the compliment. I have seen a couple of movies from the Dogme 95 movement. Reading their rules, I think I always try to use the following 4: · If a particular prop is necessary for the story, a location must be chosen where this prop is to be found. I always look for a good reference picture · The film must be in colour. I always build my diorama’s in colour. · The film must not contain superficial action. (Murders, weapons, etc. must not occur.) My dioramas are always based on the social life in the late 1950’s. · The director must not be credited. I hope this counts also for me as the creator of my diorama’s In my next Ikea challenge there will be a lorry and some figures based on a 1950’s frequently seen scene. Job

Looks great already. Looking forward to your next entry.

This garage diorama is build in an IKEA box about 18 cm wide, 7 cm deep and 12,5 cm high. The base for the garage is the Scalescenes one. Brick textures are also from Scalescenes. Other textures are from the internet, and for the pumps also from 3DK models. Loved the challenge to create something is such a small space. But researching my car models from the Pocketbond and Oxford Diecast range I got also a little bit frustrated. Noticed that some models have an incorrect superscription or have never been used by for instance British Railways. And when I have a correct model, I noticed that I had to look to Mk I; MkII or MkIII by the Austen Healey for a correct date. Of course, I now know I have not enough knowledge of the British historical cars and lorries used in the 1950’s. But sometimes there is no information available or the picture of the model gives the full information. There are some nice service models for instance for Austin/BMC, but I don’t know if they are correct. So, I only can hope that the Morris Minor Pick up is correct. Any comments or suggestions are welcome. Kind Regards, Job

This challenge was more challenging than the first one. The box is about 18 cm wide, 7 cm deep and 12,5 cm high. I have a nice collection of cars that deserve to be put in a diorama. In a small box like this you can not create a scene with pavement, some road and a background model. So, I spent a lot of time drawing several (not) possible diorama plans. Using several materials and prints. The picture above is made when I finally found a solution. A small garage scene with a car, some pumps and figures. I used my usual method for designing. I diverse the ground in thirds and the backscene will be placed almost diagonal. I will use the garage from Scalescenes, a backyard building from a Scalescenes corner shop, used as the garage office, and the Scalescenes Workshop. Also, some figures from Dart Castings and pumps from 3DK models. First step was to design the background. I used a grey sky and tried out different options for a background building. Finally, I decided to use a picture of the low relief factory from Scalescenes. I resized it to a useful background factory. Now it is time to put see what kind of ground texture I want to use. There are several options. After the try outs the choice was made: a texture from 3DK will do the job. I will add the base after I have finished all the buildings. Because I want to use blue Morris BMC car and the diorama is so small, I have made some thoughts about the colour for the garage. I would like to put the attention to the details on the for ground of the diorama. I saw in some pictures that a garage with painted white bricks was an option. In stead of using paint to give the brown brick texture a white colour I used the painted white brick texture from Scalescenes. For detailing the garage, I searched for signs on the internet. The garage door is also a texture from internet made to size. After I had I had finished the garage I filled in the small gap at the left side. This is just a suggestion for a building. Now I had to build the front with two petrol pumps. I had a model from Scalelink but missed the right colours to create a SHELL pump. I had some pumps from 3DK models which could be used. I also bought some petrol pumps from Kingsway models. I also found some nice textures on internet. With these components I found the solution. The Kingsway pumps have a layered approach. I used this method to create my Shell petrol pumps. I used textures from internet for the front and the sign, for the sides the red pars of the 3DK pumps and some black wire for the hose. The Morris pickup van for some semi-gloss varnish from Vallejo, some weathering with Agrax Earthshade from Citadel for the canopy and some rubber tyre from AK paints for the tyres. The only difference with the plan I made that I left the figures away. Focus is now on the Morris BMC pick-up. This IKEA box challenge is now finished. I can start with the next and last one. I hope you liked this one. Thanks for reading and as usual critics and suggestions are welcome. I’m never too old to learn. Kind Regards, Job

Hi Mikkel. Learned again from your excellent blog entry. Will see what I can do with it in both aspects. Painting and storage of my figures and cars.