keefr2 Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 14 hours ago, Owd Bob said: Talking of childhood memories, the lovely colour of the water in that pond takes me back to summer days over 50 years ago to when my friends and I used to go net fishing for newts and sticklebacks in the lovely cool waters in the ponds behind the old quarry behind our houses - all gone now, covered in landfill... This is an absolutely lovely piece of modelling Bob, really very atmospheric - cracking stuff! Keith 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted April 12, 2020 Author Share Posted April 12, 2020 Thanks Keith, they have also (Just several weeks ago) filled in my local childhood fishing ponds on the fields here not far from me, where we would catch the tadpoles and sticklebacks and put them in jam jars......and where we also played 'Army' with chair legs for guns, dig trenches and light camp fires, all soon to be gone for more housing on land you would never ever expect to be built on. At least they had the wildlife folks set up nets and traps,and also they went out with buckets daily for about three months and caught most of the Newts and Frogs etc. Weird to think i'm nearing 60 and i'm still stuck in the same £$&%* place. Thank God for being able to escape into the modelling now and again. Stay Safe folks. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MAP66 Posted April 12, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 12, 2020 Absolutely fantastic modelling, pure brilliance. Photographing in natural light really brings it to life. What a great piece of modelling. All the best Mark 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry1975 Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 That photo looks so real, great modelling. Jerry. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoking gun Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 Very impressive modelling and colouration of the whole is consistent and conveys the atmosphere of a quarry. Martin 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Keith Addenbrooke Posted July 30, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 30, 2020 Hi Bob, hope you don't mind but I looked up this thread after reading your updates on the diesel depot. This is obviously a very different type of layout, so hard to compare them, but this really is excellent: I think it's some of the most realistic slate / rock modelling I can recall ever seeing (and by all accounts it didn't take you long, looking at the dates on the thread). I've only ever had a very brief foray into Narrow Gauge modelling myself, but it's something I suspect many of us interested in micro-layouts have a soft spot for - be great to see more. Keith. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted July 30, 2020 Author Share Posted July 30, 2020 Thanks Keith, it's something i like a bit more than my diesels, and it's smaller and lighter to move around. I've seen better it's not that good compared to some others of the same slate theme, I'm keeping this and taking it to shows and displays one day i hope, i'm still looking forward and waiting for the Bachmann Hunslets and the ex' RN diesels to come out. Hoping to get it out soon on a dry day and give it a waft over or wash in places with a bit of purple, and i'll take some pics' when i do. Nothing takes me long, i've a Thyroid prob' that they just can't put right despite all the tabs' i have to take! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Keith Addenbrooke Posted August 2, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2, 2020 On 30/07/2020 at 14:09, Owd Bob said: Thanks Keith, it's something i like a bit more than my diesels, and it's smaller and lighter to move around. I've seen better it's not that good compared to some others of the same slate theme, I'm keeping this and taking it to shows and displays one day i hope, i'm still looking forward and waiting for the Bachmann Hunslets and the ex' RN diesels to come out. Hoping to get it out soon on a dry day and give it a waft over or wash in places with a bit of purple, and i'll take some pics' when i do. Nothing takes me long, i've a Thyroid prob' that they just can't put right despite all the tabs' i have to take! Hi Bob. I had another look at some pictures of slate and I see why you want to add a purple wash - I’m actually a little bit colour blind, so until you pointed it out I’d no way of realising. I still think the look of the texture, shape and quality of your scenery passes all the tests. Being a little bit colour blind is not a big problem - though I try to get a second opinion when choosing paint colours! (On the upside, being slightly out doesn’t worry me). Wasn’t so good the day I dropped a paintbrush covered in enamel paint on a carpet - I thought the mark didn’t show. I was wrong . 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted August 2, 2020 Author Share Posted August 2, 2020 I had it right with the purple streaks and darkers layers in the slate, then when i air brushed the track and other bits a few months back it hid it all, i should have masked it off! i've spilt paint and super glued the bed sheets together many a time whilst recovering from illnesses and operations by doing some tea tray modelling in bed. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 I do like the rock work on this layout, very effective. Also, the two pugbashes. Very atmospheric, they convey the sense of such locos .. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Padre Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 On 13/02/2020 at 11:58, Owd Bob said: Edwardian! Next time i order a nameplate one will be 'Little Nell' I gave 'Nell' a coat of Aldis own spray can dark Green and a spray over with the air brush of my usual dirt mix. I'm not sure about making any more locos just yet or adding any finer details to the two i now have as i'll probably be giving my eyes and fingers a chance to recover from what is for me a struggle in stuff this small. My own fault as i do soon forget and get carried away with just doing stuff. Late to this party (remember social gatherings?) but this little loco is lovely. It’s almost as if Hudswell Clarke made the Lough Swilly a shunter out of spares from the big tanks ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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