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    Job's Modelling

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    I shall scan some photographs and paintings from my book collection on old cottages and farmhouses, Job. Will send them by message attachment so you can use them for reference.

     

    Some of Stanley Spencer’s paintings have farmhouses similar to your model. Although these paintings date to the late 1930s, country buildings and roads would not have changed a lot over the next 20 years, as the boom in car ownership didn’t really take off until the 1960s. 

     

    https://paintdropskeepfalling.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/stanley-spencer-exhibition-at-compton-verney/

     

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/gardening/2016/04/15/cottages-edit_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.jpg?imwidth=450

     

    As Dave (Wenlock) has described, roads to farms can be narrow, with grass verges, lined with thick hedges - some farm roads could be rutted, with potholes and  grass sprouting in the middle. The top surface of the road would be chippings from local stone quarries. Here in the Highlands the roads in the 1950s were often a pinky red colour. Maybe someone who grew up in the area you are modelling could advise on local stone. An old farmhouse path could have paths made from large slabs of slate, or simply gravel.

     

    Good luck with the model! 

     

    Marlyn

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    Job's Modelling

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    Lovely period scenario, Job! I love all your projects!!

    I am modelling a coal merchant scene on an N Gauge layout and will be looking for a flatbed coal lorry suitable for the 1930s in the Northern Highlands.. I have also found an old ‘Dinky’ flatbed Fordson lorry for my 0 Gauge CakeBox diorama based on the Hornby Clockwork models of the 1940s/1950s. Now I need to model some coal sacks in 7mm scale?

     

    Marlyn

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    awoodford

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    Only been back into railway modelling for  a year, Alan, and just noticed this post. I love unusual layouts like yours - this one looks great. I hope you do enjoy the exhibition? As someone who would prefer to avoid commitments to giving talks and producing models for display, I sympathise. I occasionally weaken and am not happy with the pressure of deadlines, having lived with them throughout my working life. But I do switch off more now and take time to enjoy the process of creating scale miniatures!

     

    All the best, Marlyn 

    Harlequin

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    Hi Phil, I bought two sets of these B&Q trestles as well, but decided they were a bit lightweight for me - OK for temporary use in the workshop - but that’s a clever idea cutting the notches. However, I have opted for making my own timber bases for my two exhibition models. Like you, I discovered that some diagonal bracing is needed to reduce the risk of twist in the baseboard. Wise after the event for me!!

    Job's Modelling

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    When I was young in the 1950s, we thought our cities were grey and dirty places, with buildings darkened by the smoke & soot from coal fires. Now I look back with fondness to a time when children played in the middle of streets, which only saw the occasional motor car. We watched roadworkers repairing the stone setts of the cobbled streets and warmed ourselves by their brazier, made from an old oil drum with holes punched on the side. Your dioramas capture that period so well. It is a shame the Nice Street model is no longer on display?

    Job's Modelling

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    I am new to RMWeb, Job. Enjoying reading your blog. Monday was washday and most kitchens had a ceiling mounted, ‘pulley’ (air drying rack). On wet Mondays the washing was brought indoors and newspaper had to be put on the floor to soak up any drips, while we sat and had our evening meal ‘tea’ around the kitchen table.

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