RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted May 20, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 20, 2022 5 hours ago, PhilJ W said: It looks like an old colliery, some sort of museum? This one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerlee,_Museum_of_Scottish_Industrial_Life Yes that's it. You walk past it between the two Coatbridge stations. Sunnysidevis onevof the most misnamed stations on the network. Jamie 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 15 minutes ago, jamie92208 said: Sunnysidevis onevof the most misnamed stations on the network. Though, in the past, it had competition from Sheffield Brightside. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted May 20, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 20, 2022 4 minutes ago, pH said: Though, in the past, it had competition from Sheffield Brightside. I was going to mention tbat. It's decaying remains are still there as you head into Sheffield. I used to have a theory that such names worked as oxymorons on council estates. The best was Brafferton Arbour in the middle of the Buttershaw estate in Bradford. The setting for Rita, Sue and Bob too. Windermere Drive on the Warwick estate in Knottingley came a close second. Jamie 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted May 20, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 20, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, jamie92208 said: Yes that's it. You walk past it between the two Coatbridge stations. Sunnysidevis onevof the most misnamed stations on the network. Jamie Along with 'Brightside'. Sorry, I jumped in with Brightside before reading the following posts. Edited May 20, 2022 by iands 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanchester Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 20 hours ago, iands said: Along with 'Brightside'. Sorry, I jumped in with Brightside before reading the following posts. In fairness, Brightside is mostly on the higher ground and indeed, before the total spread of the city, was a 'resort' for people looking for some fresh and unpolluted air. That may have been true even when the railways first arrived (1840's?) although of course they were a contributor to, how can I put this nicely, a certain degradation in the quality of the lived environment. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 1 hour ago, lanchester said: .... railways .... were a contributor to .... degradation in the quality of the lived environment. Careful - this is supposed to be a pro-railway website .................... dangerous talk like that can get you excommunicatated ! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 Tight curves for a model of a mainline, but I really like the way the exit through the backscene is disguised: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/803350/ 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 On 20/05/2022 at 17:56, pH said: Though, in the past, it had competition from Sheffield Brightside. There's also Flowery Field in Hyde, of course! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 Berkhamstead, 1953.... 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted May 24, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2022 Very restrained bit of modelling of the castle, doing the motte but refraining from putting a twee ruin on it. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted May 26, 2022 Share Posted May 26, 2022 ....... or an Airfix windmill ! 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Crofts Posted May 26, 2022 Share Posted May 26, 2022 (edited) On 24/05/2022 at 12:52, petethemole said: Very restrained bit of modelling of the castle, doing the motte but refraining from putting a twee ruin on it. Yes, but the river is flat and lifeless, just a layer of matt varnish. Doesn't work for me. Full marks for the bus being on a road heading for an underbridge and not perched on an overbridge. Edited May 26, 2022 by Michael Crofts 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Crofts Posted May 26, 2022 Share Posted May 26, 2022 (edited) I have been coming here mainly for amusement. But I have also been following the Little Muddle thread with admiration, and Kevin has answered several questions about how he achieves his stunning results by saying that he observes reality and then tries to model it. I think this thread about prototypes backs that up because it makes you look at the real thing and think about why some models "work" better than others. The comment above by Hibelroad about using impressions of distant structures beyond low-relief buildings is very perceptive and really useful to me in the planning stage of my layout. Insights like that are quite rare. Edited May 26, 2022 by Michael Crofts 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Crofts Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 (edited) Here's a nice little diorama by Janet Cottrell. What I noticed was that a lot of work has gone into the trees, there's a very clever use of a river as the visual break between the layout and the backscene, and the highly directional lighting is much better than the LED floodlighting we usually see. Does anyone know who makes the very pretty loco and carriage? Image has disappeared. Here it is again (reproduced with permission) Edited June 13, 2022 by Michael Crofts Image had disappeared 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 As often happens when I am searching for something I find something for another thread. Here I reckon they have got the weathering wrong on both DMU and signal box. Totnes. Class 122 DMU W55000, South Devon Railway Diesel Gala. 3/11/18, cheers 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Hillfield Tunnels, Newport 1963 by Ray Viney 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Vistisen Posted June 9, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 9, 2022 10 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: Hillfield Tunnels, Newport 1963 by Ray Viney Quite realistic, but i can see the joins in the Willis brick sheets. And they need weathering. 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6990WitherslackHall Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 A couple of well weathered tenders at Grosmont on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. The tenders belong to LMS Black 5 44806 and standard 4mt 4-6-0 75029 'The Green Knight'. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artless Bodger Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 2 hours ago, Rivercider said: As often happens when I am searching for something I find something for another thread. Here I reckon they have got the weathering wrong on both DMU and signal box. Totnes. Class 122 DMU W55000, South Devon Railway Diesel Gala. 3/11/18, cheers Someone's knocked the finial off when cleaning the track, they're a devil to glue back on. 4 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 19 minutes ago, Artless Bodger said: Someone's knocked the finial off when cleaning the track, they're a devil to glue back on. You've got to find the damned thing first ! 2 5 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Crofts Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 1 hour ago, 6990WitherslackHall said: A couple of well weathered tenders at Grosmont on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. The tenders belong to LMS Black 5 44806 and standard 4mt 4-6-0 75029 'The Green Knight'. Yes it's good but that view blocker in the front left hand corner doesn't convince me one bit. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6990WitherslackHall Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 (edited) 7 hours ago, Michael Crofts said: Yes it's good but that view blocker in the front left hand corner doesn't convince me one bit. Oops, I must have forgotten to crop the photo! Here's the picture as it should have been. Looks more like a model without that fencepost in the way. Edited June 10, 2022 by 6990WitherslackHall 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Banger Blue Posted June 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 17, 2022 Seen on Flickr: Good use of Scalescene downloads but could have weathered the lurid green plastic bridge girder. 😄 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 On 05/02/2019 at 23:31, Ramblin Rich said: Not a railway subject, but this footage made me think of a model set with stage smoke across it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-47132158/drone-captures-southrepps-radiation-fog-daybreak Someone has done good job on the Metcalfe church. steve 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB-AU Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 Nice backscene and static grass, but the loco needs weathering. http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=29266 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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