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How realistic are your models? Photo challenge.


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hi all i thought id add a few pics of my old layout porter lane, first up is the mainline 58 going for fuel at the stabling point and the last pic is a 20 and 56 resting for the weekend at the stabling point off dinsdale park

 

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neil

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Here a couple for you folks from across the pond... Not quite up to some of your Standards and Apologies for the setting. It is still in the process of being built at the moment.

 

NIR Hunslet built from an Model Irish Railways Kit.

 

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Second one is the Silverfox C Class with Studio Scale Models Detailing set.

 

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Finally 071 built from an Model Irish Railway kit.

 

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George

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It's not well documented but in the mid 70's, the Eastern region ran summer Saturdays only excursions from Rotherbrook Midlland to Blackpool North. One such working is seen, photographed from one of Rotherbrook's ill-concieved 1960s high-rise housing developments. Today the scene is very different, with the works long since demolished and modern apartments built on the site. During the late 1990s, Rotherbrook Midland was renamed simply "Rotherbrook" as the old GC station had long closed with the line singled and restricted to freight only. Nowadays the only trains that can be seen at Rotherbrook are dull plastic units and even the GC line has been "mothballed" but is awaiting funding from Central Government to turn it onto a light rail system that will serve the new housing developments out of town on the site of the former Rotherbrook Main colliery.

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Gosh! Those are fantastic!

 

I'm going to jump in at the deep end with my first post and (hopefully) attach three photos of my own layout, 'Grove Street Yard', hopefully looking at least half as good as the other pictures posted in this thread.

 

All pictures taken by a photographer I've worked with under an energy saving bulb and with around a thirty second exposure. It was the first time she had done photography with a subject that didn't talk back.

 

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Here's a picture of Charlie the coal merchant taking a rest leaning on his shovel. He may be trying to figure out how to weigh his next sack of coal because his coal scales are still on my workbench in kit form.

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A quiet moment at Ankle Bend Crossing just outside Combwich in the summer of 1955.

 

My recent house move has meant that the layouts are temporarily dismantled, the bonus of this is that it's given me a chance to get some snaps of some of the little scenes in the comfort of a warm house rather than the cold garage which previously housed Combwich.

 

No Photoshop was used in the creation of this image, other than for colour and contrast adjustment - no 'fiction'. An A1 sized photographic print of clouds was placed behind this segment of the layout.

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