RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted July 16, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 16, 2017 Read the manual but didn't realise you could use Post Focus like this. There are a few bands of fuzziness, just below the cow in the centre of the picture for example but no doubt I'll sort that out. Thanks I thought that was the wind waving the long grass during the exposure. Very nice photo. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted July 16, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 16, 2017 He'a not scale modelling wind as well now, is he? Bl**dy 'ell! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted July 16, 2017 Author Share Posted July 16, 2017 He'a not scale modelling wind as well now, is he? Bl**dy 'ell! Yes....I've been taking tablets for it but to no avail. That's why all pictures are upwind! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted July 16, 2017 Author Share Posted July 16, 2017 (edited) Read the manual but didn't realise you could use Post Focus like this. There are a few bands of fuzziness, just below the cow in the centre of the picture for example but no doubt I'll sort that out. Thanks I've now found that in each of the 7 vertical focus settings (going from front to back) on the camera's touch screen you can go one step further into the process by enlarging that setting whereby a slider bar appears with further progressive focus modes within that individual setting. Blimey, no end to this. It takes the pictures as an MP4 video sequence from macro to infinity and it appears you can get to all the pictures and save the ones you want. When all are saved on the cameras SD card you download to a stacking program and off you go. So ends todays lesson from the Amateur Photographer Magazine......!!!!!! Might do some work on the layout in a minute. Edit. 7 settings not 8 - can't count! 7 up, 7 across giving 49 segments that can be post focused Edited July 16, 2017 by KNP 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted July 16, 2017 Author Share Posted July 16, 2017 (edited) Well we have seen the video that AY took to go with the photoshoot. Not to many err's and hmm's from me...... Least I've had one appreciative audience! Very pleased with it and the music set it off very well.... Edited July 16, 2017 by KNP 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted July 16, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 16, 2017 (edited) Been painting figures for the autocoach. Dart Castings from their passenger range which they say is a lower quality. Well in places yes but generally fine, a bit of flash here and there but a few faces that look like a cast member from Attack of the Zombies - they will be facing into the coach. Don't want to scare to many children with them looking out of the window as the train goes by... Edited March 7 by KNP 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted July 18, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 18, 2017 You bought a job lot of blue bean bags from Ikea then? Looking good! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted July 18, 2017 Author Share Posted July 18, 2017 (edited) You bought a job lot of blue bean bags from Ikea then? Looking good! Yes, but once you've sat on them you're there for life......or a sticky end. The wonders of blue tack!!!! What did we use before it? Thanks Edited July 18, 2017 by KNP 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 81C Posted July 18, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 18, 2017 Plasticine, it needed to be warm for it to work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted July 18, 2017 Author Share Posted July 18, 2017 Plasticine, it needed to be warm for it to work. Never got it work very well plus it tended to stain as well if left awhile. My favorite back in the annals of time (when dinosaurs roamed the earth!!!!) was double sided sticky tape or doubled up tape - but even then if you left it to long a residue was left. Hurrah for Blue Tack....one of those quiet revolutions in railway modelling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted July 18, 2017 Author Share Posted July 18, 2017 (edited) Been tackling a few odds and ends one was coal in the bunker of 4825. Forgot all about until I posted a pics the other day and I noticed in the aerial view it wasn't done.... Well it is now... I have no idea where I got the lump of coal from but it's years old and I just keep breaking it up.....with the number of loco's I have it will last a while!!!! Now this is one that might be interest to those of you with an old autocoach - mind is a Dapol one. When doing the video where the 48xx and autocoach did most of the running I noticed it stutter when pushing the coach on the bend out of Little Muddle station just before the viaduct - but pulling not a problem over the same point In fact it's done it quite a few times since and when I added the Dart figures the poor old loco had a total wheel slip problem and in one instance stopped completely spinning furiously. First thought was the loco so I put 12 wagons behind and got it to push them over the same place - not a problem. Investigating further I found the problem to be the autocoach, as I said earlier pulling no issue, but, when pushing and because of the play in the pivot pin on the bogie it tended to dive in the corner thereby pushing the bogie up so the front wheels hit the underside of the coach floor, happened on both bogies. So I have fixed a card spacer to stop the bogie frame diving - did both ends on both bogies to keep it level and now I have no problems at all. Here is the temporary fix - I suspect that when painted dirty black it will be the permanent one as one will ever see it. Edited March 7 by KNP 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted July 18, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 18, 2017 I had a similar problem with some Dapol LMS coaches, and what I did was cut a small square of foam rubber type stuff - the squishy open-cell type - and put that between the floor of the coach and the bogies, over the pivot pin. It also dampens down the rocking and swaying that they used to do over pointwork. Al. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted July 21, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 21, 2017 (edited) About to start fixing the Shawplan (Extreme Etchings) glazing to my autocoach, not sure exactly what is best to fix them with - I have the Deluxe Glue'n'Glaze which I have seen recommended, along gloss varnish and Johnson's Klear........what do you guys use? Also still messing about with the camera and the post focus in between working on the layout. This is one of favourite pictures reworked... So all is now in focus and shows off why I'm a fan of a tree used as a view blocker. next one is one taken using the various bands of trees running across for focusing and you almost see the individual tree lines. Edited March 7 by KNP 34 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gismorail Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 Some really amazing photographs Kevin and I can totally understand your love of trees as view blockers as it's just such a natural way of doing it. I just hope that when the time comes I can get the same effect on Chumley End Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulcanbomber Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 Kevin, did you ever get around to doing the article on how you produce your tree? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted July 21, 2017 Author Share Posted July 21, 2017 Kevin, did you ever get around to doing the article on how you produce your tree? In hand......... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 (edited) Trees glorious Trees Tall green and uncluttered, I cant think of anything else at the moment to finish the song, but you get the picture. hahahha F A B Remind me again, how many more do I need for Kings Moreton? hahahahha As for fixing the Windows, I used PVA on my Gaugemaster Signal Box Kit, and had no smearing and they seem to hold O.K. so far. Edited July 21, 2017 by Andrew P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted July 21, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 21, 2017 Trees glorious trees Tall green and uncluttered Just look at the leaves then eat your bread buttered... Lionel Bart I ain't. I cannot think of a better thing to use for a scenic break, as you say they look completely natural. Pity I model a South Wales mining valley in the 1950s, after they'e been all felled for pit props but before the Forestry Commission replanted them. My scenic break is giving me problems at the moment because I've lost my creative mojo... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted July 21, 2017 Author Share Posted July 21, 2017 (edited) Trees glorious Trees Tall green and uncluttered, I cant think of anything else at the moment to finish the song, but you get the picture. hahahha F A B Remind me again, how many more do I need for Kings Moreton? hahahahha As for fixing the Windows, I used PVA on my Gaugemaster Signal Box Kit, and had no smearing and they seem to hold O.K. so far. Trees glorious trees Tall, green and uncluttered Please show no more, is what I plea But only under my breath was this muttered Number of trees, well a few more than many! I'll give it a whirl, I will try the reverse side first to see how I get on. Edited July 21, 2017 by KNP 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliff park Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 The wonders of blue tack!!!! What did we use before it? I worked in electronics all my working days and many years ago, when using blue tack to get a very small screw into a very remote hole asked an older colleague exactly the same question. His reply, after a long pause, was 'bogies' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted July 21, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 21, 2017 The wonders of blue tack!!!! What did we use before it? I worked in electronics all my working days and many years ago, when using blue tack to get a very small screw into a very remote hole asked an older colleague exactly the same question. His reply, after a long pause, was 'bogies' Ah, so that would be a B4 bogie then? Al. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted July 21, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 21, 2017 The wonders of blue tack!!!! What did we use before it? I worked in electronics all my working days and many years ago, when using blue tack to get a very small screw into a very remote hole asked an older colleague exactly the same question. His reply, after a long pause, was 'bogies' See, now, I've got that mental image, and I can't unget it... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted July 25, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 25, 2017 (edited) Slowly easing around the bend the Pannier enters Encombe station throat ready to pick up the morning goods. And just messing about with filters. Edited March 7 by KNP 31 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 That first pic is superb mate, but so is the second Picture Postcard, PLEASE try that second one in Sepia. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted July 25, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 25, 2017 (edited) Thanks and as requested sepia set at 35% Edited March 7 by KNP 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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