Tony Wright Posted January 25, 2019 Author Share Posted January 25, 2019 Hope Mo feels better soon. Can you pass on my best wishes Tony please? Baz Will do Baz, She's seeing the Quack later this morning. Regards, Tony. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 25, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 25, 2019 Thanks Mike, It would seem then that the Heljan livery manifestation is a very rare one indeed, if not unique to a 43XX. Regards, Tony. John not Mike but never mind! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted January 25, 2019 Author Share Posted January 25, 2019 (edited) John not Mike but never mind! Sorry John, How did I get you muddled up with the Stationmaster? Your post was in response to one of Mike's. Old age? By the way, my report on the Convention is in the latest issue of BRM (though someone didn't seem to know quite what BRMA stood for - I just put the acronym). Regards, Tony. Edited January 25, 2019 by Tony Wright 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 25, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 25, 2019 Sorry John, How did I get you muddled up with the Stationmaster? Old age? Regards, tony. Well he's a few years older than I! I was replying to his post though. Don't worry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrovich Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Best wishes to Mo hope she gets well soon. Regards Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post grahame Posted January 25, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted January 25, 2019 This thread sure flies along. It was post #31666 where I showed the latest with my resin wall cast from homemade masters/moulds. Since then, which only seems a day or two ago, I've got the top walling and some colour and dirt on as it's crumbling polychromatic Victorian brickwork, and it's looking like this: G. 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted January 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 25, 2019 This thread sure flies along. It was post #31666 where I showed the latest with my resin wall cast from homemade masters/moulds. Since then, which only seems a day or two ago, I've got the top walling and some colour and dirt on as it's crumbling polychromatic Victorian brickwork, and it's looking like this: DSC_7591.JPG G. Amazing building! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tony Wright Posted January 25, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 25, 2019 (edited) Best wishes to Mo hope she gets well soon. Regards Peter Thanks Peter, It's a pity I won't see you at Southampton, but health come before 'playing trains' - although modelling railways is generally a healthy hobby I've found. In between attending to Mo's needs (I'm opening cans of soup and heating the contents up, and I've also worked out the mysteries of the microwave!), I've taken some more pictures this afternoon. I've experimented with a few new angles. I'm not sure if they've all 'worked', but here they are.............. I've taken similar views from the Witham Road to this in the past, though not such a broad angle. A DJH Austerity plods south on Up coals. If a loco is plain, weathered black, like this, after I've built them, I paint them myself. With part of the formation being on an embankment, low views such as this can be achieved. A much-modified Hornby Britannia - new chassis, detailing , renumbering, renaming and weathering - heads south on a fitted goods. Some might be surprised to see 70054 on the ECML, but I saw it on just such a train, at Retford, in 1958. Looking north from the Down side, a J6 plods away from the station with a 'parly' - next stop Corby Glen, then Ponton and finally Grantham. A three-set heads westwards on the MR/M&GNR section. Another J6, this one from an original Nu-Cast kit, shunts the pick-up in Bytham's goods yard. Also in the goods yard, a PDK O2/4 has the charge of an engineers' train. With the publication of the latest book on GWR and LNER carriages from Crecy, I should be able to find out the exact number of the ancient four-wheeled carriage. Plain black, like the J6s, and I'm happy to paint these locos and carriages. GREEN ARROW herself has the road from the Down slow to the Down fast on a northbound parcels. The leading BG is an ancient MOPOK kit (which I almost sold, years ago, along with another, to St. Enodoc - meaning it could now have been in Australia). I built the loco from a Crownline kit, and Ian Rathbone painted it. That MR/M&GNR service hasn't got very far! A view no longer possible on the prototype, unless you live in one of the four new houses now on the site. Bob Dawson's Willoughby Arms looks so natural, and Ian Wilson's new weighbridge hut sits prettily. I'll try a few more 'different' angles in the next few days. There's a fair bit of potential. Critical comments, please. Regards, Tony. Edited to (eventually) remove a blooper. Edited January 26, 2019 by Tony Wright 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 It was worth the effort Tony. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted January 25, 2019 Author Share Posted January 25, 2019 It was worth the effort Tony. Thanks John, I should have mentioned that three of the shots were taken from the 'far side'. That's the habitat of the non-obese. I can squeeze in quite easily, though I'm not as slim as I used to be (like most older blokes, I've now got a pod!) Regards, Tony. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted January 25, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 25, 2019 Those two distant shots are sublime, Tony. I particularly like the WD one, it is the essence of the railway scene to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglian Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Lower angles like these are when something quite wonderful happens and a beautiful layout sorts of kicks the viewer right between the eyes, as it jumps into 'real life'. I imagine this effect is a result of more closely reflecting what we'd expect to see in reality.When viewing at shows I'm always trying to get eye level views for this very reason. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted January 25, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 25, 2019 In between attending to Mo's needs (I'm opening cans of soup and heating the contents up, and I've also worked out the mysteries of the microwave!), I've taken some more pictures this afternoon. I've experimented with a few new angles. I'm not sure if they've all 'worked', but here they are.............. Austerity on Up minerals.jpg There is a real "Colin Gifford-ness" about this shot - wonderful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted January 25, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 25, 2019 There is a real "Colin Gifford-ness" about this shot - wonderful. I was just about to suggest a monochrome version for that very reason! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom F Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 (edited) Sending Mo my very best wishes.....and I hope she is feeling better soon! Although I have to admit I'm concerned for her welfare if you are cooking! Edited January 25, 2019 by 9793 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidw Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Get well soon Mo! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmditch Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 (edited) Re: Soups I am surprised at a man of your abilities relying on 'RTH' (ready-to-heat) soups, when it is so easy to make one's own! Using basic raw materials (onion, potato, tomatoes, some chopped tomatoes if in the stock cupboard, seasoning to taste ( I'm in a tarragon phase) I always make up a big pan, eat one portion, with wholemeal bread of course, and freeze the remainder in portion-sized containers. Then you can use your newly acquired microwave skills to heat when required. Even without an Isinglass drawing I'm sure you could manage that! Now I must make leek, potato and bacon soup today, to use up ingredients, after doing some work on a nice simple LMS cattle wagon. Pigs ( for bacon) can be transported in one of those! Further (simple) instructions can be supplied if required. NB I'm sure you must know this, but please do not put a can, or anything metallic, in the microwave. Edited January 26, 2019 by drmditch 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted January 26, 2019 Author Share Posted January 26, 2019 (edited) Re: Soups I am surprised at a man of your abilities relying on 'RTH' (ready-to-heat) soups, when it is so easy to make one's own! Using basic raw materials (onion, potato, tomatoes, some chopped tomatoes if in the stock cupboard, seasoning to taste ( I'm in a tarragon phase) I always make up a big pan, eat one portion, with wholemeal bread of course, and freeze the remainder in portion-sized containers. Then you can use your newly acquired microwave skills to heat when required. Even without an Isinglass drawing I'm sure you could manage that! Now I must make leek, potato and bacon soup today, to use up ingredients, after doing some work on a nice simple LMS cattle wagon. Pigs ( for bacon) can be transported in one of those! Further (simple) instructions can be supplied if required. NB I'm sure you must know this, but please do not put a can, or anything metallic, in the microwave. Many thanks indeed, Though being very dim with regard to culinary things, I do know not to put anything metal into a microwave - or a damp poodle! You're writing to the world's least-emancipated man. I admit, I've been ruined. For most of the time, I use the kitchen as a thoroughfare. There are many mysterious items in it, some big, some small. Some get hot and others get cold. Some make whirring noises and others gurgle. I don't use an ironing iron because I don't want to burn my ear if anyone phones up at the same time. With regard to RTH soups (what a lovely twist of English), whereas I NEVER read loco kit instructions, I diligently read those on the cans - and those on the wrappers on the microwave stuff. All of which goes to show (as with many I'd suggest) that blokes (particularly domestic duffers like me) would be totally helpless without their wives/girlfriends/partners. I couldn't have achieved anything in railway modelling (assuming I have achieved anything) without the unstinting support of Mo. Regards, Tony. Edited January 26, 2019 by Tony Wright 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted January 26, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 26, 2019 NB I'm sure you must know this, but please do not put a can, or anything metallic, in the microwave. You can recreate weather conditions in 4mm scale using this technique, however. The representation of lightning is very impressive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tony Wright Posted January 26, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 26, 2019 (edited) I was just about to suggest a monochrome version for that very reason! Many thanks. Though I would never dare to compare myself with the incomparable Colin Gifford ( that could well be tautology!), I think B&W images of steam-age models are far more redolent of the period. So, those same scenes as earlier, now in monochrome................ I think I prefer these to the colour ones. Thus enthused, I've 'monochromed' a few of my more recent images.............. I think I look better in B&W, though Tim's use of muted colours on my clothes was perfect. From an elevated viewpoint (the photographer must have climbed a tree!), I think this works, up to a point. Standing on the loading dock now, the photographer captures a very shabby K1 on empty minerals. He's thin, of course, to be able to reach the 'far side'. Because my camera has the comparative eye-line of a giant, I cannot get exactly the view a 4mm picture-taker would get if standing on the platform, but B&W certainly adds to the 'realism' of this shot I think. Again, the photographer would have been standing on stilts on Marsh Bridge to get this view of an O2/1 plodding southwards. With only a couple of exceptions, all the prototype views of LB from this angle are in BW, and those in colour were taken after the station closed. B&W, then, is much more 'realistic'. Apart from one (more distant) colour shot, I have nothing in polychrome with regard to prototype shots of the MR/M&GNR bit. Again, then, B&W is much more appropriate. This shot was taken before Tony Gee installed his lovely M&GNR lower-quadrant signals. And, apart from a few KRP colour shots of J6s, by far the vast majority of the pictures I have of these ubiquitous ex-GNR 0-6-0s are in monochrome. I think B&W is the way forward, at least for part of the time. Edited January 26, 2019 by Tony Wright 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
glo41f Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Tony The B&W pictures are superb. The mini me one especially good. Thank you. Martin Long Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MJI Posted January 26, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 26, 2019 Many thanks indeed, Though being very dim with regard to culinary things, I do know not to put anything metal into a microwave - or a damp poodle! You're writing to the world's least-emancipated man. I admit, I've been ruined. For most of the time, I use the kitchen as a thoroughfare. There are many mysterious items in it, some big, some small. Some get hot and others get cold. Some make whirring noises and others gurgle. I don't use an ironing iron because I don't want to burn my ear if anyone phones up at the same time. With regard to RTH soups (what a lovely twist of English), whereas I NEVER read loco kit instructions, I diligently read those on the cans - and those on the wrappers on the microwave stuff. All of which goes to show (as with many I'd suggest) that blokes (particularly domestic duffers like me) would be totally helpless without their wives/girlfriends/partners. I couldn't have achieved anything in railway modelling (assuming I have achieved anything) without the unstinting support of Mo. Regards, Tony. I made a mess of our work microwave with tinned soup. Just tipped into bowel and nuked. Someone said to put a plate over the top. Didn't I do it at home? We don't have a microwave oven, as hardly used it and it was starting to fail. Boiling in saucepan is no slower than using a microwave oven. Things in kitchen, I got very technical when we replaced the oven and stuff. I have also repaired the washing machine. Funning that I can quote model numbers of TV, PC CPU (Q8200), a few of my VCRs but not the kitchen white goods. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MJI Posted January 26, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 26, 2019 After seeing what Peter Jackson said about WW1, they saw colour and remembered it like that. Monochrome is fine for artistic reasons, but my favourite 1960s stuff is Ivo Peters Cine footage. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigw Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 My favourite of those B&W copies of the photos is the top one. It looks as if someone took a happy snap of their house and a goods train was plodding by in the background. Very nice indeed and very inspirational. Second up for me is the photo of the station building. regards, Craig W Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lecorbusier Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 (edited) Many thanks. Though I would never dare to compare myself with the incomparable Colin Gifford ( that could well be tautology!), I think B&W images of steam-age models are far more redolent of the period. So, those same scenes as earlier, now in monochrome................ Austerity on Up minerals.jpg Britannia on Up fitted goods.jpg J6 on Down stopper.jpg J6 shunting.jpg O2 4 on engineers' train.jpg V2 on parcels.jpg Willoughby Arms.jpg I think I prefer these to the colour ones. Thus enthused, I've 'monochromed' a few of my more recent images.............. me 02.jpg I think I look better in B&W, though Tim's use of muted colours on my clothes was perfect. A2 on Down express.jpg From an elevated viewpoint (the photographer must have climbed a tree!), I think this works, up to a point. K1 on Down empties.jpg Standing on the loading dock now, the photographer captures a very shabby K1 on empty minerals. He's thin, of course, to be able to reach the 'far side'. Complete footbridge 04.jpg Because my camera has the comparative eye-line of a giant, I cannot get exactly the view a 4mm picture-taker would get if standing on the platform, but B&W certainly adds to the 'realism' of this shot I think. O2 2 63927.jpg Again, the photographer would have been standing on stilts on Marsh Bridge to get this view of an O2/1 plodding southwards. With only a couple of exceptions, all the prototype views of LB from this angle are in BW, and those in colour were taken after the station closed. B&W, then, is much more 'realistic'. Scratch-built Flying Pig 43127.jpg Apart from one (more distant) colour shot, I have nothing in polychrome with regard to prototype shots of the MR/M&GNR bit. Again, then, B&W is much more appropriate. This shot was taken before Tony Gee installed his lovely M&GNR lower-quadrant signals. second SEF J6 weathered 03.jpg And, apart from a few KRP colour shots of J6s, by far the vast majority of the pictures I have of these ubiquitous ex-GNR 0-6-0s are in monochrome. I think B&W is the way forward, at least for part of the time. If you are going black and white ... a couple of thoughts .... or three Might you consider rigging up a directional light source to produce some shadows? Might give even more atmosphere? I think the shots might benefit from a little more work on the sky ... even if only a darkening towards the top to give a feel of distance. Finally, it might be fun to play around a little with graining .. just to add a little noise. Excellent shots though Edited January 26, 2019 by Lecorbusier 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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