Little Muddle

[KNP]

Shapes made and positioned.

What I always like about playing with little boxes is that it is easier to imagine the scene.

Won't end up like this, it will change and be tweaked but already it feels like it looks at home.

It feels right....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Backscene will need altering...!

Might park for a few days, get on with the tractor and come back to this with other ideas perhaps, who knows.....design work in progress?

Edited March 27 by KNP

[Mick Bonwick]

There are some pretty impressive structures coming, I can see. It will certanly keep you off the streets for a while.

[KNP]

5 minutes ago, Mick Bonwick said:

There are some pretty impressive structures coming, I can see. It will certanly keep you off the streets for a while.

Thanks

Off the streets building them!!!

Not there yet, pub roof not happy with and shop not quite right as looks plonked on....

as with everything with this layout it evolves...

but as said it feels right and looks better.

[Limpley Stoker]

That looks suitably random! To my eye the pub, if it’s really old , would look better with a steeper pitched roof and lower eaves, but it’s ok for a Victorian build.

It would look even more interesting with a section of each profile.

[John Besley]

4 hours ago, Andrew P said:

Or McDonalds or KFC?

Or the whole including station will be flattened and turned into a Sainsbury ... with a bus dept regular service to Encombe, the viaduct will be a cycle path...

[KNP]

9 minutes ago, John Besley said:

Or the whole including station will be flattened and turned into a Sainsbury ... with a bus dept regular service to Encombe, the viaduct will be a cycle path...

 

Don't give me ideas as I've found the hammer!

[KNP]

Quick lets change the subject....

 

Here is a man looking over the fence at a loco or the sheep of course for his painting...its of course that well known local artist Stan Dare....which he is?

 

 

Edited March 27 by KNP

[Winslow Boy]

Wow that looks almost like the real thing and not a sign of any bluetack.

[Oldddudders]

53 minutes ago, KNP said:

Here is a man looking over the fence at a loco or the sheep of course for his painting...its of course that well known local artist Stan Dare....which he is?

Stan Dare - Painter of the Future? [Eagle comic refers]

[MrWolf]

Although the Eagle.comic was long before my time, I owned a 1957 Vauxhall Cresta which was always referred to as having "A Dan Dare dashboard".

[MrWolf]

Although you are modelling something completely different, the new corner of the layout reminds me so much of a place I knew well when I was a teenager. 

 

 

 

 

[KNP]

6 hours ago, MrWolf said:

Although you are modelling something completely different, the new corner of the layout reminds me so much of a place I knew well when I was a teenager. 

 

 

 

 

 

Very useful couple of pictures......

[KNP]

Morning.

Just passing by.

 

 

Edited March 27 by KNP

[Dragonboy]

13 hours ago, KNP said:

Quick lets change the subject....

 

Here is a man looking over the fence at a loco or the sheep of course for his painting...its of course that well known local artist Stan Dare....which he is?

 

That’s absolutely exquisite. You’ve even made the mud look muddy. 
 

I look forward to you beating that photo. 

[KNP]

2 minutes ago, Dragonboy said:

That’s absolutely exquisite. You’ve even made the mud look muddy. 
 

I look forward to you beating that photo. 

Thanks

It was a rushed picture taken last night that was hand (and breath!!) held which turned out rather well.

Couldn’t be bothered to set the tripod up so just rested the camera on the edge of the lane..

[KNP]

Old picture of the livestock special passing through....!

 

 

Edited March 27 by KNP

[Limpley Stoker]

Lovely though your livestock train is, especially the pigeon van, I found myself admiring the point rodding and signal pulleys - and wooden walkways!

[KNP]

17 minutes ago, Limpley Stoker said:

Lovely though your livestock train is, especially the pigeon van, I found myself admiring the point rodding and signal pulleys - and wooden walkways!

Wooden walkways - something that I have noticed is quite often forgotten.

Imagine trying to push a wheelbarrow full of something or other over some point rodding?

[Tony Teague]

Kevin

There are some interesting possibilities here:

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/436004807649994645/

and:

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/padwamidewani/pubs-boozers-other-drinking-establishments/

 

Tony

 

[KNP]

51 minutes ago, Tony Teague said:

Kevin

There are some interesting possibilities here:

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/436004807649994645/

and:

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/padwamidewani/pubs-boozers-other-drinking-establishments/

 

Tony

 

Great set of pictures.

Its from pictures like that that very often I will get ideas and put them together.

 

Thanks

 

 

[KNP]

And down at track level...

A highly edited one that needed much tweaking as it was rather bleached.

Looks better now....but a bit washed out if I'm honest, anyway here it is as someone might like it

 

Drivers watching us through the window?

 

 

 

This reminds me I must chase up for the brass plate, its now 2mths since the money was taken.....didn't realise it was that long!

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 27 by KNP

[MrWolf]

Very nice indeed. I will find a Dukedog I can afford at some point! Again, the attention to detail with the track is very noticeable.

 

I collect all sorts of photos of old street scenes as inspiration for the fictitious street scenes in my paintings. I have always been fascinated by forgotten corners of towns and villages. I have a few here which might be of interest?

 

 

 

 

[Winslow Boy]

Wow that last one of the petrol garage would be perfect for LM. Just the sort of thing you would see in the olden days.  Somewhere for the Reliant to fill up before it sets off on a delivery run. Squeezed into an awkward site as every where else is taken. Definitely a goer.

[MrWolf]

I just pinch details from the old photos, they're also interesting  for seeing how buildings were laid out or adapted as per the garage. 

The attendant would need to climb on to the wall to operate the Shell pump on the far left. The 1930s dustbins are interesting in photo 3, the lean to shed, tapered in two directions and it's chimney in the Hatter's Arms photo 2. The odd mix of houses shops and factories in photo 1.

These are the things that I am trying to pass on, rather than complete scene ideas.

But there is a ramshackle corrugated tin garage on my layout, I'm working on it at the moment. 

It won't have a shop that sells everything apart from oil and car spares either... 

[KNP]

8 hours ago, MrWolf said:

Very nice indeed. I will find a Dukedog I can afford at some point! Again, the attention to detail with the track is very noticeable.

 

I collect all sorts of photos of old street scenes as inspiration for the fictitious street scenes in my paintings. I have always been fascinated by forgotten corners of towns and villages. I have a few here which might be of interest?

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks.

Very useful pictures especially the third one as that is what I am aiming for on the model.

Now, I'm no motorbike user but is that chap, on the garage picture, filling one up that has just one wheel?

Not an expert by any means on this mode of transport but I do believe most motorcycles have at least two wheels?