Porcy Mane Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Alan, Sounds like someone has thrown the gauntlet down. As this thread seem to be turning into a wish list can I request some lampost bases There must be a massive market for them. The most anonymous yet common item of street furniture going. The good old Revo Mosley manufactured in both short and long base styles and seen in many a street for the last seventy years. They have held up every type of head from Gas through early electric to the latest LED type. Seen in all corners of the UK and immortalised in many a film and TV dramas. and works of art. impervious to freak weather conditions. and now reappearing, in attempts to re gentrify exclusive villages and preserved railways all over the country. https://goo.gl/maps/FTr36szkjwt https://flic.kr/p/nEZ5E7 The Venerable Revo, Britain's most ubiquitous cast iron lamppost... probably... P (With apologies for my OCD). 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanbuttler Posted July 18, 2017 Author Share Posted July 18, 2017 As this thread seem to be turning into a wish list can I request some lampost bases There must be a massive market for them. The most anonymous yet common item of street furniture going. The good old Revo Mosley manufactured in both short and long base styles and seen in many a street for the last seventy years. I'll be experimenting with scanning lamp post bases at Llangollen soon, hopefully this weekend during the 1960's gala, I'll report back on how I get on! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted July 18, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 18, 2017 I'll be experimenting with scanning lamp post bases at Llangollen soon, hopefully this weekend during the 1960's gala, I'll report back on how I get on! If ever the chance presents itself, Alan, how about some nice L&SWR barley twist lamps....? Rob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wamwig Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 I do have some plans afoot! Interesting, some WW1 figures would be useful Alan, as would some WW2! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanbuttler Posted July 18, 2017 Author Share Posted July 18, 2017 If ever the chance presents itself, Alan, how about some nice L&SWR barley twist lamps....? Rob They are currently being designed on the back burner, it is taking a time for me to get the twist right! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Interesting, some WW1 figures would be useful Alan, as would some WW2! Despatch riders, ARP personnel, firemen, ATS, etc. should all go down quite well. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wamwig Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 (edited) Despatch riders, ARP personnel, firemen, ATS, etc. should all go down quite well. Presume you have seen the MMS and Dan Taylor Modelworks figures in those categories? We can always do with some more though! Edited July 19, 2017 by wamwig Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Gilbert Posted July 19, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 19, 2017 WW1 WDLR figures in 16mm would be pricey no doubt but very welcome Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
autocoach Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 They are currently being designed on the back burner, it is taking a time for me to get the twist right! Twist then Shout Actually I am very interested in LSWR/SR lampposts as the cast metal Langley ones I bought in 2010 have started to droop. And I could not find replacements in their current catalog. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Presume you have seen the MMS and Dan Taylor Modelworks figures in those categories?We can always do with some more though! Nope, not seen those but I'll take a look later. The only reason I mentioned these different types of auxiliary service personnel is because they are so frequently seen in archive photos of the Home Front, the Blitz, etc. That's before you even touch the other emotive events such as gas mask training, firehose drill competitions, evacuation of children, and so on, all of which could do with some authentic / authentically-dressed figures, hopefully without the heavy crude appearance of whitemetal castings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 I'm still interested in Foxes...specifically those on 60017. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Presume you have seen the MMS and Dan Taylor Modelworks figures.... OK so, I've seen them now. The Dan Taylor ones look really good; the MMS ones less so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Godfrey Glyn Posted July 27, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 27, 2017 The shop at Pendon has released a new batch of Alan's excellent figures covering a group of men in conversation and women shopping. I ordered some online on Sunday afternoon and they arrived in the post on Tuesday morning - excellent service indeed. They came with a brief guidance sheet by Tim Shackleston and on the other side a list of the present range and a suggestion it will be expanded to include graveside figures and workmen. I attended one of their Workshops last year, a most enjoyable and useful day with the bonus of getting a scan of yourself and the subsequent production of your own 3D 1/76 self. I think the only problem with ModelU figures is that all others you might have bought and painted look very primitive in comparison. Certainly well worth looking at in my opinion. all the best Godfrey 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rope runner Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 The forthcoming loco oil cans sound promising... Paul A. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack O Lantern Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Alan, Ref your reply to RBAGE in July about plans for WW1 figures, can I put in a plea for some medical staff? WD Models produce good military figures including WDLR personnel,even good old Airfix,HAT and Emhar are OK and Bachmann do the two military nurses and two wounded. SMA sold through Scale Link produced a German army surgeon and two nurses for WW2 and Scale Link have a WW1 *medical group". However, nobody I can find does WW1 nurses bending, kneeling, holding tray of instruments (or breakfast) and no surgeons in gown and mask. It would need essentially young people (re-enactors?) who have their own uniforms, (which might be difficult to source) but staff for a CCS or base hospital would be wonderful and, given the anticipated arrival of the Bachmann ROD Baldwin and WDLR wagons, I am sure that there will be many like me building a diorama/small layout based on a hospital "Somewhere in France" Apologies for the length of the post. Hope this suggestion might be useful! All the best. Jack Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wamwig Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Great Idea Jack, get some of those re-enactors scanned please Alan! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Great Idea Jack, get some of those re-enactors scanned please Alan! They can swap between WW1 and WW2 outfits, too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted July 28, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 28, 2017 As this thread seem to be turning into a wish list can I request some lampost bases There must be a massive market for them. The most anonymous yet common item of street furniture going. The good old Revo Mosley manufactured in both short and long base styles and seen in many a street for the last seventy years. RevoCombo1.jpg They have held up every type of head from Gas through early electric to the latest LED type. RevoCombo2.jpg Seen in all corners of the UK and immortalised in many a film and TV dramas. Revo-SailorBeware-1958.jpg and works of art. CraddockStSpennyCornish.Jpeg impervious to freak weather conditions. Otley-RevosD1968 Storm 68.jpg and now reappearing, in attempts to re gentrify exclusive villages and preserved railways all over the country. https://goo.gl/maps/FTr36szkjwt https://flic.kr/p/nEZ5E7 The Venerable Revo, Britain's most ubiquitous cast iron lamppost... probably... DellsomeParadeRevo.jpg P (With apologies for my OCD). I take it Mr Franks isn't moving fast enough, or has he turned a deaf un? Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 I take it Mr Franks isn't moving fast enough, or has he turned a deaf un? Mike. Too many buffer requests plus the complexities of the elegant beauty that is the revo is much more suited to a 3D scan. Almost attractive as a well turned ankle, P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bigcheeseplant Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 I need some of the lamps posts for Aylesbury, I am quite happy to draw then up if Alan wants to add them to his range. Has any one some dimesnioned drawings and close up photos. David 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertiedog Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 Hi all, It's been a while since I gave an update on new products and where things are in the development queue. I should know by now that trying to get new items developed and on sale during the Spring is not very realistic, so apologies to those that have been awaiting some of the items I listed back in December and January! July and August are my quietest months exhibitions wise, so I'm hoping to catch up on some design work. In the meantime, here is a summary of the products which are now available: BR 1970's - 1990's Crew & Guard Figures During the BRM show at Alexandra Palace I met Paul James who kindly brought his collection of uniforms from his time working for British Rail during the late 1970’s, 1980’s and early 1990’s. Paul’s collection covers the introduction of the BR corporate image uniform right up to the formation of EWS in 1996. According to Paul, many of the early uniforms lasted into early privatisation days. 2017-06-26-New-BR-Crew-Standing.jpg 2017-06-26-New-BR-Crew-and-Guards.jpg Pendon Vale Scene Figures Last year I was approached by Pendon Museum to assist with creating new figures specifically for the Vale Scene. A day was spent with Pendon volunteers dressed up in 1930’s clothing, in poses depicting farm workers, people shopping and people in conversation. 18 figures were created in total with more planned, including some scans of children from the local primary school in Long Wittenham. The figures are being released in batches throughout the year, with initial releases available exclusively from the Pendon museum shop or via their website. At present 8 figures are available from the Modelu webshop (Farm Workers & Women in Conversation), and 18 figures are available direct from Pendon (Farm Workers, Men & Women in Conversation, Women Shopping). You can access the Pendon webshop here. 2017-06-26-Pendon-Farm-Workers.jpg 2017-06-26-Pendon-Women-in-Conversation.jpg Porters Porters and station staff are an area I've been looking to revisit for a time, so it was fortunate to have my stand at the Great Central show alongside Jack Shaw's excellent Penrhyn Quarry Railway. ack is a volunteer at the GCR and kindly agreed to brave the hot weather and be scanned in some of his collection of period clothing. Over the weekend we created a number of new figures including: Pre-Grouping locomotive crew, Workmen and Porters. 5 new Porters and a Shunter have been added to the webshop, with rest of the new figures being added to the website over the coming weeks. 2017-06-26-Porters-1.jpg Scans In the Pipeline! These following screenshots are straight from the scanner before I've done any cleanup, but will give an idea of what is to come over the Summer. I'm aiming to have all of these figures in the range in time for Railwell's in August. New Loco Crew (Thanks to Chris Chewter) Loco Crew Casual.JPG Loco Crew Leaning.JPG Pre-grouping Loco Crew (thanks to Jack Shaw) Pre Grouping Loco Drivers.jpg Pre-Grouping Fireman.jpg Workmen (thanks to Jack Shaw) Workmen.jpg Seated Workmen.jpg Musicians (Thanks to David Brandreth) Musicians.JPG Products in the Pipeline Point Rodding LNWR, LMS/BR and L&Y point rodding designs have now been completed and are currently under test. I'm experimenting with not printing the ferrules which retain the rodding, in order to avoid threading the rollers onto the rods. Samples of these will be going out for test in the next week or so and realistically they won't be on sale until the Autumn. LMS.JPG LNWR.JPG Platform Lamps After the initial success with the L&Y lamps, there has been no movement on this project for many months unfortunately. Reason being the time they take to print and the demands on my equipment to keep on top of stock for exhibitions and orders. I have a couple of customer commissions which I'm aiming to finish over the summer, so this project will get some attention finally. The cost of the final products will be completely dependent on how long they take to produce, which I'm hoping to minimise as much as practical without losing any quality. Loco Shed Detailing Last October I spent a day at Didcot with the extremely helpful Loco dept manager Kevin Dare. Kevin helped me scan many items suitable for detailing a loco shed as well as a few other items of interest. These include: loco brake blocks, loco oil cans (3 sizes), loco jack, cosmetic screw link coupling, fire hose cabinet, sand and fire buckets, vacuum pipe, ATC bell. I was also able to clamber up onto Cookham Manor and scan it's BR pattern Chimney! 7808 2.JPG 7808 Chimney 1.JPG Chairs and Sleepers Successful test prints have been made of GWR slide chairs, Concrete Pot sleepers and a number of pre-grouping chairs including LSWR, GCR and Cambrian. However, the material my equipment uses is a methacrylate and is not compatible with butanone. I'm currently looking into cost effective methods of producing the chairs in ABS and hope to have some answers over the summer. That's it for now, just leaves me to say thank you to everyone who has shared photographs of their work on this thread, it really is a pleasure to see where the figures and lamps end up and how well they are painted. Cheers Alan Where are these figures ordered, especially the band figures, I cannot see them on the website. I am ordering the Pendon farm workers and the women figures, but it is the band that is of direct interest at the moment. Stephen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertiedog Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 I have found the website properly and ordered what is available so far on the Pendon farm workers and Women figures in conversation, nice website and good range of figures, with the musical band figures shown as in development, and will be ordered as so as available. Excellent products, keep it coming! Stephen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertiedog Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 As well as the direct order I have the others coming by post from Pendon Museum shop.........any ideas of the time scale for the musicians figures, and would they be available as 7mm as well as 4mm? I would like to do a 7mm presentation set as a present for a friend. Stephen 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanbuttler Posted August 10, 2017 Author Share Posted August 10, 2017 As well as the direct order I have the others coming by post from Pendon Museum shop.........any ideas of the time scale for the musicians figures, and would they be available as 7mm as well as 4mm? I would like to do a 7mm presentation set as a present for a friend. Stephen HI Stephen, Thank you for your positive comments and for your order! The musicians are in the queue to edit, most likely in September as getting them on the website takes a little time. However the figures themselves will likely be ready sooner than that, I can drop you an email when I've finished the editing, which will be before the end of the month. Cheers Alan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertiedog Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 After years of one particular supplier, no names, who specialised in poses that were more static than a cigar store indian, and have gorilla arms....... or are plain undersized from another, it makes a change to get the figure so accurate. I used to make masters for 54mm figures, but 4mm is too much hassle these days, bad eyesight, old age, and arthritis do not help! One Plea, some more Victorian figures, bustles and beards, but not together on one person! Also there is a lack of climbing railway workmen, posed on ladders etc., and also figures with arms raised pulling on chains or ropes Stephen 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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