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  1. Lovely wartime story. Makes a layout more alive. The area around the turntable looks very nice. The ground van is nicely weathered. Wishing you and your family a good Christmas and a happy new year.
  2. Dave you have created some nicely weathered PO coal wagons. I also like the pictorial story telling of the shunting movements. For me it is like looking at your working layout. Unfortunately I'm not able to visit model railway shows anymore.
  3. That overall picture gives a good picture of your boxfile layout. Nice atmosphere, in an industrial environment.
  4. Some incredible modelling. Looking forward to your next entry.
  5. Looking forward to further progress on the turntable . Are you also thinking of adding a water tower?
  6. Some excellent models waiting to be loaded and some additional weathering.
  7. Read this with great interest. A lot of useful information. Some one asked if the posterboard also where used as chalk boards. I found this picture of a clever made notice in 1922: http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrbsh1802.htm. Have also a look at the poster board heading: special notices.
  8. Just received Road Vehicles of the GWR

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    2. thaddeus

      thaddeus

      all the ones that are left...

    3. Mikkel

      Mikkel

      Northall will see some 4mm examples soon then :-)

    4. Job's Modelling

      Job's Modelling

      I have some thoughts about it....

      Have to solve the painting problem

  9. Just received Road Vehicles of the GWR

  10. Thanks Mikkel. As you know I like to do research. Time based items, in my opinion, are essential to create a believable time based diorama. This building gave me also the possibility to practice my painting skills.
  11. Thanks for your suggestion. I think I follow your idea for the arches. By the next house I can do it before I start painting.
  12. Thanks for the information and the compliment. On the picture it is not visible, but I found the window rails to thick.
  13. Thanks for the comment and the link. I will think about a possibility to give it a better look. This is one of the dis-advantages of the kit. Suggestions for giving the arches a better look are very welcome.
  14. Love your layout. I have worked with corrugated iron sheet from Scalescenes. You can see my efforts here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1325/entry-17813-on-the-road-no-2-–-a-corrugated-roof/ Looking forward to your further progress.
  15. I have almost finished the terraced house. Before I show you the result first my personal review of the kit from In the Greenwood. I have enjoyed building it, but just for this diorama. The 3 mm MDF I personally find too thick for the terraced house. 2 mm would have been better, but I don’t know if it possible to do the laser cut. The kit is easy to build. There are no windows supplied, so you have to make your own choice here. Painting The doors I have painted using just a black wash from Vallejo. They have got several layers. For the “white” woodwork I used a paint from the Petite Properties range called “Top of the Milk”. The paints of Petite Properties work well on MDF. For the stone parts I used a paint from the AK range called Dust. I like to use as less different colours as possible to keep the diorama together. The roof is painted with Petite Properties Soot Ash with some Warpfiend grey from Vallejo. I found the Petite Properties paint alone to dark. Windows I have tried different methods for the windows. I found the way Clever Models do their windows using a matt picture suitable. But the setting is Edwardian, and in no PDF kit I have there were suitable window textures to find. After an intensive search on the internet I found picture I could use for the curtains. With some help from a photo program and my usual way of scaling I made them at size. I made them also less white to let them fit in the diorama. Now my terraced house has authentic Edwardian curtains. Photo box For a long time, I have an article about a simple photo box. I have build the box to day and the photo of the cottage is made using it. As you see I have to finish the chimneys. But you will see the result of that in one of my next entrees. I also will start with the shop. Just a preview of my first design for the shop name: Comments and suggestions are welcome. Kind regards, Job
  16. In a blog I follow from the Gentle Author for atmosperic stories and pictures I saw today these thre pictures from the 1960's made by Derek Brook. Whitechapel Rd with Royal London Hospital in the distance Middlesex St Middlesex St with The Bell Who can give me some more information about the vehicle(s) in the pictures? Job
  17. Thanks Mikkel. The photo's of Emmanuel's work are very inspirational for me. Although I think I can reach his level its the goal I always set. I try to achieve the best result I can at this moment, keeping in mind the excellent modelling of others, including yours.
  18. Thanks for the compliment and the information Pete. I mostly look at the kind of diorama I want to build to make a choice for the materials. Like the canvas paper for printing brick in 4mm scale. Have seen a method on a railway exhibition in the past were someone painted a piece of art paper with brick colours and then cut out the individual bricks. Can not remember in what scale it was. In the end it is the final result that counts.
  19. Thanks for the compliment, Graham. In his last article in a Belgian Railway model Magazine he says: You must always look to "new" other methods; techniques; materials for painting your models. He showed some excellent small masterpieces in that Magazine. Have a look at this atmospheric one https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2L8gD-KfGCw/W4I-Rx8gmEI/AAAAAAAAEls/7BEvTygXP0Ex6g4hTVc1OAIru5Mpi63swCLcBGAs/s1600/03.jpg Can still learn a lot from him.
  20. Before I started I read some articles about brick painting. I have read the chapter of brick painting in that excellent book “Cottage Modelling for Pendon”, some chapters in a book called “Create exterior finishes” from Bea Broadwood. Is also very useful for railway modellers, especially for those who do 7mm. And last but not least an article from Emmanuel Nouaillier in an Eisenbahn Journal. I will mostly follow the steps described in the last article. For my colour choice I used all three. For the house and shop I also use this time a kit from In the Greenwood. I cleaned them first with an MDF cleaning pad. I gave all the parts a coat with Gesso. Then the brick parts got a coat with Vallejo black Wash. This to down tone the white the Gesso. Now I can start painting the individual bricks with a base colour. With the information I had, I looked at my available paints. I have used the following colours: Red Squirrel and Mucky Pint from the Petite Properties range and Dust from the AK range. For the mortar I used a pigment called Earth of Vicenza. I blow the most pigment off the piece (out of the window) and wept it off with a moistened piece of cloth. Above the wall in progress, below a larger picture of the finished wall. After testing my way of brick painting on a side wall I can continue painting and building my terraced house. And of course suggestions and comments are welcome. Kind regards, Job
  21. Thanks Steve. I now mostly post in the Blog pages. Because I now also use other kit materials and other ways to create my diorama's.
  22. Thanks. It just a new journey for me, which I enjoy.
  23. Thanks for the complement. I bought at my local DIY shop. I gave it a quick look at internet but couldn't find a similar product in English. My product is called "MDF Reiniger" = MDF Cleaner from Alabastine. I use it to remove the wash from the MDF and make it fat free and clean. But I think there are also other manners to clean the MDF.
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