Show us yours - Realistic modelling

[brylonscamel]

Feeding a workhorse

Whilst helping Dad with our layout 'Braeside', I grabbed a photograph of Aberdeen station pilot (ex LNER Thompson B1 - 61347) arriving at the coaling stage.

 

Edited March 1, 2022 by brylonscamel

[Killybegs]

23 hours ago, brylonscamel said:

Feeding a workhorse

Whilst helping Dad with our layout 'Braeside', I grabbed a photograph of Aberdeen station pilot (ex LNER Thompson B1 - 61347) arriving at the coaling stage.

 

 

That's fabulous, you can almost smell it!

[brylonscamel]

2 hours ago, Killybegs said:

 

That's fabulous, you can almost smell it!

Thanks John - very much the shed atmosphere I am hoping for! We are looking to add some of the 'detritus' and signs of activity that were typical of these locations - without overdoing it!

 

[43110andyb]

Class 128 DPU awaits its next turn of duty!

[Worsdell forever]

NER No 44 about to leave the shed for it's next duty and Fred and Bert look on.

 

[Lady_Farkham]

47 363 'Billingham Enterprise' proceeds through Farkham on a Thursday morning Speedlink service. 

[Quintus]

2P at Bradstock, having worked in with a railtour.

 

Edited May 7, 2022 by Quintus

[brylonscamel]

Havin' a wee gasper on the dock

Our little J72 - numbered 6719 of Aberdeen Kittybrewster - pauses at the harbour weighbridge office.

 

[The Johnster]

I have to highlight two aspects of this image which are truly superb in terms of creating an atmosphere and 'feel'.  The general mistiness and greyness is redolent of the Granite  City, and one can almost feel the har blowing in off the North Sea.  The scene is deserted with no humans; anyone with any sense is inside in the warm!  Then there is the Morris van; the impression that it is being steered around the loco is very strongly re-inforced by the 'sit' of the van, lower on it's left than the right, though this may be the result of the camber of the road.  It's also sat down on its rear axle a bit, suggesting that it is loaded, or accellerating, or both.  The loco and scratch-built buildings are superb of course, but it is this sort of attention to atmospheric detail and believabillity that brings a scene to life.

[The Johnster]

I have to highlight two aspects of this image which are truly superb in terms of creating an atmosphere and 'feel'.  The general mistiness and greyness is redolent of the Granite  City, and one can almost feel the har blowing in off the North Sea.  The scene is deserted with no humans; anyone with any sense is inside in the warm!  Then there is the Morris van; the impression that it is being steered around the loco is very strongly re-inforced by the 'sit' of the van, lower on it's left than the right, though this may be the result of the camber of the road.  It's also sat down on its rear axle a bit, suggesting that it is loaded, or accellerating, or both.  The loco and scratch-built buildings are superb of course, but it is this sort of attention to atmospheric detail and believabillity that brings a scene to life.

 

I doesn't get much better than this, right up there with Arun Quay, Ladmanlow, and Rob's various Sheep layouts.  I note you are a professional model maker, and am not surprised!

[Sasquatch]

Edited March 4, 2022 by Sasquatch
INVERTED IMAGE!

[GRUNFOS]

Class 45/1 at rest, my old Polmadie diorama.

 

[The Johnster]

I'd prefer to think it's not at rest, or the shed foreman will be wanting a word with whoever left it blocking the pathway!  Wouldn't have been tolerated at Canton...

[PMP]

[Charlemont Parkway]

coronation class standing at platform 1 on Charlemont Parkway, new video in process of uploading to my youtube channel "charlemont parkway" see my near completed street scene/ finished river, and a running session with the coronation class, take a look 

[NHY 581]

On 04/03/2022 at 17:09, The Johnster said:

I have to highlight two aspects of this image which are truly superb in terms of creating an atmosphere and 'feel'.  The general mistiness and greyness is redolent of the Granite  City, and one can almost feel the har blowing in off the North Sea.  The scene is deserted with no humans; anyone with any sense is inside in the warm!  Then there is the Morris van; the impression that it is being steered around the loco is very strongly re-inforced by the 'sit' of the van, lower on it's left than the right, though this may be the result of the camber of the road.  It's also sat down on its rear axle a bit, suggesting that it is loaded, or accellerating, or both.  The loco and scratch-built buildings are superb of course, but it is this sort of attention to atmospheric detail and believabillity that brings a scene to life.

 

I doesn't get much better than this, right up there with Arun Quay, Ladmanlow, and Rob's various Sheep layouts.  I note you are a professional model maker, and am not surprised!

 

 

I am somewhat taken aback to find myself mentioned amongst such esteemed company. 

 

I thank you Jonners. 

 

Rob. 

[Karl]

Quiet late afternoon on shed today.

 

Edited March 6, 2022 by Karl

[The Johnster]

2 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

 

 

I am somewhat taken aback to find myself mentioned amongst such esteemed company. 

 

I thank you Jonners. 

 

Rob. 

 

You're welcome, Sheepman.  No BS, I regard your layouts as inspirational and as good as it gets within the envelope of 00 RTR, and are brilliant examples of a holistic approach which includes atmosphere and detailing as well as close attention to the trains and how they operate.  My own efforts are crude and feeble in comparison.

 

Good modelling IMHO is not simply mastering the techniques and methods needed to produce accurate models, it is also very much about presentation and positioning of buildings and items of scenery, proscenium sightlines, and lighting, and is, I contend, to an extent a natural talent that can only be learned or emulated to a limited degree by those like me who do not posess it.  We try our best and for my part I get a huge amount of satisfaction and pleasure from my layout, which is of course the point, but part of that satisfaction and pleasure is a function of accepting my limitations.  I'll never build locos like Guy Williams or Ian Pemberton, or design layouts like Iain Rice, or make buildings like Allan Downes, nor will I ever master main line operation in a limited space with the realism that Peter Denny or Frank Dyer managed, incidentally in what we would now regard as course scale 00.  You have in my view a good deal of natural talent, and have developed considerable skills to exploit it. 

 

2 hours ago, Karl said:

Quiet late afternoon on shed today.

 

 

I can almost feel the summer evening warmth, and it has triggered a desire to finish off the day with a cool beer.  The rusty hopper is magnificent, and the oily sheen on the locos is just right.  Good stuff.

[Karl]

9 hours ago, The Johnster said:

 

You're welcome, Sheepman.  No BS, I regard your layouts as inspirational and as good as it gets within the envelope of 00 RTR, and are brilliant examples of a holistic approach which includes atmosphere and detailing as well as close attention to the trains and how they operate.  My own efforts are crude and feeble in comparison.

 

Good modelling IMHO is not simply mastering the techniques and methods needed to produce accurate models, it is also very much about presentation and positioning of buildings and items of scenery, proscenium sightlines, and lighting, and is, I contend, to an extent a natural talent that can only be learned or emulated to a limited degree by those like me who do not posess it.  We try our best and for my part I get a huge amount of satisfaction and pleasure from my layout, which is of course the point, but part of that satisfaction and pleasure is a function of accepting my limitations.  I'll never build locos like Guy Williams or Ian Pemberton, or design layouts like Iain Rice, or make buildings like Allan Downes, nor will I ever master main line operation in a limited space with the realism that Peter Denny or Frank Dyer managed, incidentally in what we would now regard as course scale 00.  You have in my view a good deal of natural talent, and have developed considerable skills to exploit it. 

 

 

I can almost feel the summer evening warmth, and it has triggered a desire to finish off the day with a cool beer.  The rusty hopper is magnificent, and the oily sheen on the locos is just right.  Good stuff.

Thankyou very much, although I can take no credit for the engines, they are GrimyTimes finest!

[MP40058]

East Road Goods has gone through a transformation over the last few weeks. Gone from being an end to end diorama, it now includes an 8ft x 4ft single track running loop. The goods yard is still the main feature with a scenic section to left of it where the tracks disappear into an hillside double tunnel portal. The track rejoins the yard to the right of the goods yard that also includes a now lifted section of track with sleepers and chairs left behind in a bit of undergrowth, adjacant to the goods shed/coal drop. Still plenty to do. The next job is to complete the scenic section to the right of the yard, just need to work out something, maybe a road bridge?

25109 idles in the yard while on van duties

 

Dressed stone wall added with access gates

 

A low profile timber workshop added

 

 

A train crew mess room constructed and weathered to add a little extra variation to the yard

 

A busy scene in the yard with a couple of Type 2's

 

 

 

Tunnel portal scratch built into the hillside formation

 

 

 

 

[GRUNFOS]

Class 45, finally at rest!

[Ruston]

A tatty Diag. 1/506 brake van at Watery Lane Sidings. March 1977.

 

Edited March 7, 2022 by Ruston

[Ben B]

 

It's the early 1960's, and the brief period when Spon Lane Works were experimenting with a hired-in Austerity Tank (borrowed for a few days from the National Coal Board at Baggeridge Colliery), to see if the type would be suitable for the works.  The loco is seen one gloomy afternoon with an internal-user wagon of scrap metal from one of the workshops.  The brief flirtation with the Austerity wouldn't last, the works increasingly turning instead to diesels, though a preserved Austerity would return for a period towards the dying days of the works in the 1980's, to work special charters. 

[bathgreenpark]

SOMERSET & DORSET RAILWAY

BATH GREEN PARK

 

MARCH VIDEO. Click the link and enjoy

Andrew

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtr2yWxE8Oo

 

 

Edited March 9, 2022 by bathgreenpark
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[GRUNFOS]

Last one before you get bored with them.

 

Sunday morning.