JZ Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Do you know what? I always wondered who took that photograph... Found this postcard in a suitcase in my Dad's loft sorry, spilt coffee on it... Brilliant. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 I know photoshopping in smoke effects gets a mixed reaction, but how could anyone look at that image and not be impressed. That is one of the very best I've seen and, too me at least, truly enhances the superb quality of the modelling. totally agree Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.hill64 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I am pining for my daily Greenfield fix: any chance of some more pictures Larry please? The Duke of Gloucester on a rake of preserved Stanier porthole stock for instance? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted June 27, 2014 Author Share Posted June 27, 2014 I almost photographed a rake of LMS Stanier Open thirds before they went out to the client but Greenfield is over really. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted June 27, 2014 Author Share Posted June 27, 2014 The claggy Fowler 7F 0-8-0 was appropriate as one of the final images seeing as memories such as this in the 1950s inspired me to build Greenfield in the first place. That the layout didn't quite 'do it' in the way I hoped is just another of life's many adventures. In reality, much freight also went via the Micklehurst Loop but I conveniently forgot it existed! The new layout will be a narrow plank built very much like a diorama to facilitate photography using an SLR and to allow as much light as possible onto the tracks. The viewpoint will in from the opposite side of the tracks to Greenfield looking down from the hillside, but a hillside in the foreground would lead to unwanted shadows, and it will begin where Greenfield station left off. The line is still on a ledge cut into the hillside with very little visible immediately behind the layout save for the tops of walls, trees, minor grassy embankments and bridge parapets. A photographic distant hillside could be pasted onto the backing screens but I will probably use model trees to hide the 'join'. Seeing as past signal boxes at the front of the layout have been knocked to the floor (I've lost one!), this structure might have to switch to the Up side. Track will be C+L and Peco points. PGH has given me point motors. Working signals will also be fitted this time as part of the operational play value. The period is 1957-ish as a basepoint, as I want more BR maroon around, but it will have to be flexible seeing as the Delph Branch will have remained open after 1955........The little lies are kicking in already! The Fowler 0-8-0's left Lees,Oldham in 1957. However, some of the ex pre-grouping coaches will have to go to new homes as being out of time or simply surplus. There is no point in going into more detail here. When work actually starts, a new thread will be started in case it is of interest. Cheers, Larry G. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted June 27, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2014 Larry, you have kept us enthralled not only by the standard of your modelling, but the artistry of your camera work and the little snippets of history about the area and its trains. Beyond that there have been so many tips on what to use, where to get it and how to do it that I am sure we will all be following your new project with the same interest that Greenfield has generated. Eric Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted June 27, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2014 If you keep the signal box the correct side of the line, you only need to place it in situe when taking photos that would / should include it. The rest of the time it can be kept safely out of the way, and the hole in the ground can either be edited out, kept out of the shot altogether, or have a fill-in piece of matching ballast. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted June 27, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2014 ... in case it is of interest. You betcha! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted June 27, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2014 Ah, now does that mean certain ex L&Y coaches formed in an auto/motor train might have to leave their present home. Not really quite right for what I have in mind ... but ... (and who cares if the date is a few years out?). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted June 30, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 30, 2014 Larry when you decide to change something it gets done... if only I had the same drive to get on with it! Looking great Barry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Message to Freebs how about a set of postcards and then present them to Larry there are so many images on this site for you to work from, looking forward to the new build now and watching heavy freights sweeping through. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted June 30, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 30, 2014 I really like the decrepit fencing, just adds atmosphere to the impending doom we all fear is happening far too soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Anotheran Posted July 1, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 1, 2014 I have to say that, even though it's sad to see it go, watching Greenfield gradually dismantled gives a great representation of the end of life of so many stations. Even in pulling bits off you're creating fantastic scenes for the camera! And as for the coaching stock... spectacular... another walk through history one coach at a time! Neil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Surely to close the station there has to be a public hearing with local board or what ever or perhaps there could be a few coach trips to view and have a cup of tea? Like the coaches you have repainted the rake in the station looks very impressive . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 You Beeching you, Coach! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted July 1, 2014 Author Share Posted July 1, 2014 Surely to close the station there has to be a public hearing with local board or what ever or perhaps there could be a few coach trips to view and have a cup of tea? Ha ha.....but the real station is still open and so the model station isn't closing. It will continue to exist 'off stage' with the station overbridge acting as the scenic break in place of the present 'sloping' bridge near the doorway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Instead I will run RTR coaches straight out of the box We'll have to start calling you RTR Coachmann from now on.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted July 1, 2014 Author Share Posted July 1, 2014 We'll have to start calling you RTR Coachmann from now on.... Make a change from Coachmann RTR..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted July 1, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 1, 2014 Whilst all your coaches are pristine, would the real ones not have suffered the same fate of repainting, and thus would also be somewhat patchy ? ( Not that I can see which is definitely the resprayed panel...). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted July 1, 2014 Author Share Posted July 1, 2014 Whilst all your coaches are pristine, would the real ones not have suffered the same fate of repainting, and thus would also be somewhat patchy ? ( Not that I can see which is definitely the resprayed panel...). The the ones on the far end of the coach are slightly darker. Probably rather realistic as you say. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted July 3, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 3, 2014 R.I.P. and condolences Regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidw Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Maroon -ER stock looks excellent - will you be selling the remaining blood and custard? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted July 3, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 3, 2014 Are you sure you really need all those Gresleys Larry? I could find a very good home for them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted July 3, 2014 Author Share Posted July 3, 2014 Maroon -ER stock looks excellent - will you be selling the remaining blood and custard? The Eastern Region stock that remains in blood & custard will be kept on the basis that I couldn't face building them again! Those already done rubbed down quite satisfactorily and so I don't need to strip the brass sides. Some blood & custards will remain in order to create the right balance for 1957. Are you sure you really need all those Gresleys Larry? I could find a very good home for them. If I ever turn my back on railways altogether I know where to send my coaches now! I am not well up on withdrawal dates of Gresley coaches so a question mark hangs over my early LNER Kitchen dining Car. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted July 4, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 4, 2014 The Eastern Region stock that remains in blood & custard will be kept on the basis that I couldn't face building them again! Those already done rubbed down quite satisfactorily and so I don't need to strip the brass sides. Some blood & custards will remain in order to create the right balance for 1957. If I ever turn my back on railways altogether I know where to send my coaches now! I am not well up on withdrawal dates of Gresley coaches so a question mark hangs over my early LNER Kitchen dining Car. If ever that is the case then you know where to send the Midland/LMS ones!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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