Aston On Clun. A forgotten Great Western outpost.

[MrWolf]

1 hour ago, aardvark said:

 

Well done that man - I see you've even modeled the Brylcreem on the signalman's hair.

 

Thank you, it was deliberate! Originally painted matt brown, it looked too much like the floor and I thought hang on, it's supposed to be about 1938, he should be wearing enough Brylcreem / Hairlene etc to make his hat slide off!

[MrWolf]

After fixing together two bits of sheet and batten roofing from the much cannibalised Wills waiting shelter kit, adding some Slater's GWR valencing that's probably as old as I am, some plasticard 'beams' and some Mike's Models GWR canopy brackets with the top stay trimmed off, I have a canopy. 

 

I found two leftover bits of Ratio guttering that gave me enough to fit the semi hidden guttering under the roof. It won't be seen, but I know it's there!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 18, 2022 by MrWolf

[Graham T]

That makes a huge difference, looks very good indeed!

[MrWolf]

Thanks. I have just realised how bad those photos are though! 

I have all the small bits to do now, barge boards, finials, gutters, drainpipes, flashing, telegraph connections, signs and a proper paint job.

 

There's probably something I missed!

[Mick Bonwick]

27 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

There's probably something I missed!

 

Weathering.

[Graham T]

30 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

Thanks. I have just realised how bad those photos are though! 

I have all the small bits to do now, barge boards, finials, gutters, drainpipes, flashing, telegraph connections, signs and a proper paint job.

 

There's probably something I missed!

 

Just the small bits - five minutes and you'll be finished then...

[MrWolf]

48 minutes ago, Mick Bonwick said:

 

Weathering.

 

Can it come under a proper paint job? 

[simonmcp]

 

1 hour ago, MrWolf said:

 

Can it come under a proper paint job? 

The military modellers are very fond of 'pre-shading'.

[Mick Bonwick]

1 hour ago, MrWolf said:

 

Can it come under a proper paint job? 

 

It looks better over a proper paint job.

[MrWolf]

1 hour ago, simonmcp said:

 

The military modellers are very fond of 'pre-shading'.

 

I do that with my paintings, not only does it have an effect on the covering colours, it's like scribbling notes on the canvas about where the light is coming from.

When painting figures I paint the whole thing in dark grey or black first.

[simonmcp]

5 hours ago, MrWolf said:

 

I do that with my paintings, not only does it have an effect on the covering colours, it's like scribbling notes on the canvas about where the light is coming from.

When painting figures I paint the whole thing in dark grey or black first.

Apparently, I may have been told in Art College - I was a little distracted by the young ladies so my memory of that time is a little hazy, I think portrait painters use olive drab under flesh tones. Haven't tried it myself yet (I left Art College in 1981) and I think it may only work under oil painting.

[Graham T]

Green underpainting is certainly a technique in portrait painting.  There's actually quite a bit of pale green in a lot of (white) human faces if you look closely.

[MrWolf]

Yes, I use pale green under some of the flesh tones. Never tried it on models I must admit. I had similar problems concentrating almost decade after you @simonmcpbut I did score a BA (Hons) in chasing girls and falling off motorbikes. 

[Stubby47]

14 minutes ago, Graham T said:

Green underpainting is certainly a technique in portrait painting.  There's actually quite a bit of pale green in a lot of (white) human faces if you look closely.

I've been on the cross-channel ferries as well...

[Graham T]

15 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

... but I did score a BA (Hons) in chasing girls and falling off motorbikes. 

 

If Carlsberg did degrees!  By the way, is that an ology?

[Mick Bonwick]

These two Modelu figures were first primed and then painted with exactly the same colours. The one on the left was primed in white and the one on the right was primed in black.

 

 

If I'd had some grey primer at the time, there would have been a third figure to display.

[MrWolf]

That's an interesting comparison, I prefer the black primer version tbh.

To make up your missing third sample Mick, here's two old Dart whitemetal figures primed with Humbrol 67 Tank grey.

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Edited August 18, 2022 by MrWolf

[Regularity]

2 hours ago, Mick Bonwick said:

If I'd had some grey primer at the time, there would have been a third figure to display.

I thought that grey came from mixing black and white?

(Someone had to say it...)

[Regularity]

2 hours ago, Graham T said:

There's actually quite a bit of pale green in a lot of (white) human faces if you look closely.

Have you been watching Star Trek again?

[MrWolf]

Difficult to describe but the green is a light olive shade that is underlying certain areas of skin and gives a slightly translucent effect to fair skin, particularly white women.

[Mick Bonwick]

31 minutes ago, Regularity said:

I thought that grey came from mixing black and white?

(Someone had to say it...)

 

I wonder what the significance was of the emoji rolling its eyes . . . . . . . . . . .

[NHY 581]

13 hours ago, MrWolf said:

After fixing together two bits of sheet and batten roofing from the much cannibalised Wills waiting shelter kit, adding some Slater's GWR valencing that's probably as old as I am, some plasticard 'beams' and some Mike's Models GWR canopy brackets with the top stay trimmed off, I have a canopy. 

 

I found two leftover bits of Ratio guttering that gave me enough to fit the semi hidden guttering under the roof. It won't be seen, but I know it's there!

 

 

 

 

 

Bloody damn good. 

[MrWolf]

It's been far too sunny for modelling today. 

We have been hurtling about with a bunch of scruffy loons on British motorcycles who are sharing the same belief that the world ended circa 1963.

 

Waitress: "What are you rebelling against Johnny?"

Brando; "What you got?"

 

Towards the end of the run a few of us broke off to continue the hunt for the site of Scout Green Crossing.

This time we attacked it from the western side of the WCML.

We found a quarter mile stretch of disused road, washed out and tricky to get along, but obviously once important enough to have been tarred.

 

Through the bars of the idiot fence could be seen the remains of the crossing keepers house.

 

 

The building seems to have been reduced to a domestic garage by the 1960s.

 

 

The O gauge model built by Sheffield O gauge group shows it in happier times before WWII.

 

 

The site of the box itself. The wall has been rebuilt to straighten out the boundary.

 

 

The rubble from the box and the remains of the compound from behind it.

 

 



 

Remnants beneath the modern fencing.

 

 

Miss Riding Hood says that it's like dating Indiana Jones... 

 

Because the maximum combined file size for posting has been reduced, the site will not allow me to replace the old pictures. Sorry!

Edited August 18, 2022 by MrWolf

[Gopher]

9 hours ago, MrWolf said:

Miss Riding Hood says that it's like dating Indiana Jones..

So have you got the hat and the whip ?

[Graham T]

Well done Mr W if it's you holding the whip hand.