David Bell Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 Love the slightly washed out colour on the shutters and the janitor sized sweeping brush. Reminds me of primary school! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 Love the slightly washed out colour on the shutters and the janitor sized sweeping brush. Reminds me of primary school! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGO Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 That house reminds me a lot of the houses along the beach road near the power station at Dungeness at least as far as my memories as a sub 10 year old child go, I remember there being very flat shingle everywhere which the front garden of your model reminds me of. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted January 28, 2021 Author Share Posted January 28, 2021 2 hours ago, David Bell said: Love the slightly washed out colour on the shutters and the janitor sized sweeping brush. Reminds me of primary school! .. in hindsight, the brush is less domestic and more 'municipal'! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted January 28, 2021 Author Share Posted January 28, 2021 10 minutes ago, DGO said: That house reminds me a lot of the houses along the beach road near the power station at Dungeness at least as far as my memories as a sub 10 year old child go, I remember there being very flat shingle everywhere which the front garden of your model reminds me of. Your memories have survived well from childhood - the house is indeed out along the beach at Dungeness! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGO Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 2 hours ago, brylonscamel said: Your memories have survived well from childhood - the house is indeed out along the beach at Dungeness! Funny how some things stay in the mind, I vaguely remember riding the RH&D railway that day, but not the scenery we passed through, but my abiding memory was a hum in the air near the power station and a tall black lighthouse on the beach. We had family friends who lived one row back from the seafront near Clacton who we had visited many times, I was so used to sandy beaches that the pebble beach at Dungeness must have made quite an impression. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted January 29, 2021 Author Share Posted January 29, 2021 (edited) You scratch my back This lovely little O gauge building is from Philip at Intentio. I'm doing the odd kit for Philip and he is rewarding me with stuff in return. There are a couple of scratch-built details, like the padlocked door and the boarded windows. I devoted time to getting the brickwork patterns to work nicely and added a painted wall sign. Here it is assembled, with a primer coat of rattle-can primer .. Edited January 29, 2021 by brylonscamel 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post brylonscamel Posted January 29, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 29, 2021 I'm rewarded in this scale with brick that you can pick out individually - like the quoins, arched lintels and window apertures. 22 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post brylonscamel Posted January 29, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 29, 2021 And to cap things off I painted a classic logo onto the largest wall. "Lister" used a lovely flowing script for their logo and it really suits a signwritten finish. 24 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kylestrome Posted January 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 29, 2021 8 hours ago, brylonscamel said: And to cap things off I painted a classic logo onto the largest wall. Congratulations, you've passed the signwriters exam with flying colours! I'd be interested to know how you managed to make the mask, assuming you airbrushed it. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted January 29, 2021 Author Share Posted January 29, 2021 (edited) On 29/01/2021 at 09:02, Kylestrome said: Congratulations, you've passed the signwriters exam with flying colours! Hi David ... "with flying colours" would be the appropriate way to pass! I'll also let you in on a secret. I have a City & Guilds qualification in signwork. But you're right about this sign - masking and airbrushing were my friends. I have a desktop hobby plotter/cutter and it's ace at cutting low tack masking film. Theres a bit of hand-finishing to get the weathered look but the tricky bit is done with the mask. I hope that helps. Edited January 30, 2021 by brylonscamel 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted January 29, 2021 Author Share Posted January 29, 2021 (edited) On 29/01/2021 at 09:02, Kylestrome said: I'd be interested to know how you managed to make the mask, assuming you airbrushed Here's a set of step by step photos on another model sign 1. Basic brick: Some embossed brick with a base coat of rattle-can red oxide primer and some lightweight filler smeared into the mortar course. 2. Realistic Brick: A combination of dry-brushing and highlighting individual bricks gives them that all important 'pattern' of shades. The base for the sign is made with some cheapo decorators masking tape and brush painting 3. Mask and Paint The mask is a low-tack self adhesive film that's been cut on a hobby plotter/cutter. Acrylic paint (dark grey) applied via airbrush. 5. Est voila! The finishing touch is just a wee bit of dry-brushing to give the feeling of wear and tear Edited January 30, 2021 by brylonscamel 8 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 (edited) Big, beautiful and Scottish. My latest commission is a beauty but I've only just started on it. A model-maker - from this parish - recently approached me with a fantastic opportunity to build some grand, iconic buildings that are linked to Glasgow Queen Street. Thrilled and nervous I can't tell you how thrilled I am to be given this opportunity. It has everything a chap like me could wish for; beautiful railway architecture, fancy stonework, a famous Scottish location and buildings on a grand scale. The excitement of setting out your stall and taking on work sits with a nervous awareness that you can no longer just satisfy yourself. I put all this stuff up online to share the adventure and am braced for 'constructive criticism'. We've looked hard for info on the various buildings and have taken some educated guesses on features that are hard to see and have also clearly changed over time. My 'patron' is recreating the station in the transition days between steam & diesel and I'm helping roll back the years with some buildings that have either disappeared from the scene or lost their original function. I won't reveal the whole plan but introduce each building as it's being made. Rising first from the ashes is the fine office that used to greet visitors at the main entrance. I was provided with a great start point, hand-drawn, scale elevations of the key faces of the office (south and east facing). The west and north elevations proved a little more mysterious but yielded their detail after we searched for more info online. Edited January 31, 2021 by brylonscamel 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 In order to get a digital line-drawing, I started with a session in Illustrator (my drawing tool of choice!), producing each of the walls and a mock up of the south facade. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 This enabled me to get started on the walls, with mountboard and styrene providing the structure. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 ... and not long before walls turned into something more closely resembling a building! 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 A base layer of modelling clay on the lower storey will provide me with something I can create the stonework - mix of rusticated stone on the 'public-facing' walls and coursed rubble on the 'hidden walls'. 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post brylonscamel Posted January 31, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 31, 2021 Further adventures in stone and clay ... Marking out on the layer of DAS clay A few hours of scratching away 9 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post brylonscamel Posted February 3, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 3, 2021 (edited) Today I have mostly been making chimney breasts and a hotch-poch of chimney pots. Edited February 3, 2021 by brylonscamel 16 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted February 10, 2021 Author Share Posted February 10, 2021 (edited) Since my 'patron' David has gone public about the fact we are working together, I've been free to update progress on my contributions to his ambitious layout Glasgow Queen Street. Whilst researching the site, we found lots of photography online and in books. The images reveal an iconic cluster of buildings and signs around the entrance. A huge - and frankly quirky - sign greeted arrivals in the 50s and 60s before the corporate styles changed and Gill Sans was replaced by a bespoke BR typeface in 1965. I knocked up this bit of artwork for David as a bit of fun. This was partly because I was intrigued by the letter spacing on the sign. The huge gap on the centred letters could easily by read as "British Queen, Railways Street"! Edited February 10, 2021 by brylonscamel 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Thanks Brian. I have used it as my profile picture! Cheers David 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kylestrome Posted February 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 11, 2021 On 10/02/2021 at 11:47, brylonscamel said: The huge gap on the centred letters could easily by read as "British Queen, Railways Street"! Typography was obviously not the original signwriters strong point. David 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted February 11, 2021 Author Share Posted February 11, 2021 1 hour ago, Kylestrome said: Typography was obviously not the original signwriters strong point. It's an odd one as the kerning on the individual letters has been done with great care! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted February 11, 2021 Author Share Posted February 11, 2021 3 hours ago, David Bell said: I have used it as my profile picture! Works a treat! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted February 11, 2021 Author Share Posted February 11, 2021 Put a lid on it Finally the office gets a roof, that just leaves the slates, barge board, windows and entrance to do ... oh yes and a bit of paint! 2 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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