How realistic are your models? Photo challenge.

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Ready to set back 

 

[Tony Wright]

This is the first time I've posted anything on this fascinating thread.............

 

 

The Down 'Queen of Scots' passes through Little Bytham in the summer of 1958. 

[nest]

2 minutes ago, Tony Wright said:

This is the first time I've posted anything on this fascinating thread.............

 

 

The Down 'Queen of Scots' passes through Little Bytham in the summer of 1958. 

Very evocative, you can really feel a distance in the photo. 

 

Nestor 

[CME and Bottlewasher]

12 minutes ago, nest said:

Very evocative, you can really feel a distance in the photo. 

 

Nestor 

I agree.

[33C]

On 27/11/2022 at 15:58, Gwiwer said:

A few from Waddlemarsh.  

 

 

 

 

 

Great atmosphere!

[scottystitch]

Ivybridge (my photo).

 

[Captain Kernow]

 

[NHY 581]

Yum. 

[Captain Kernow]

On a dull and overcast day Bath Road's D6347 engages in some shunting of ballast wagons at Callow Lane:

[ste234]

Some BR blue action at Finnbrough recently (couldn't decide if I preferred the b+w or colour version!) 

 

[CME and Bottlewasher]

A stormy Monday and a white elephant - Down Ampney Sidings.

Edited December 10, 2022 by CME and Bottlewasher

[Giles]

An old lady

 

 

 

 

Edited December 8, 2022 by Giles

[CME and Bottlewasher]

17 hours ago, Giles said:

An old lady

 

 

 

 

Simply stunning!

[Captain Kernow]

NCB loco shunting on Re6/6's 'Parkend Marsh Sidings':

[6990WitherslackHall]

Ex-L&YR Class 21 "pug" 51218 clanks down the freight only line.

 

[Ruston]

Charlie Strong's Peckett, shot from Watery Lane bridge.

[Ruston]

And again.

[Tony Wright]

I'm not sure whether this qualifies as a 'realistic' picture.........

 

 

You see it's a picture of a model 'me' (produced by ModelU and painted by Tim Elcock) taking a picture of an A4 at Little Bytham in 1958 (with a Rollieflex twin-lens reflex camera). 

 

The problem is, the figure represents a bloke in his seventies, taking a picture in 1958! In reality, that same bloke would only have been twelve years old then (and certainly not in possession of a Rollie). Not only that, he never set foot on LB's platforms. 

 

I wonder how many other layouts have their owners actually on them? Model railway snobbery, perhaps?  

 

 

[Sasquatch]

37 minutes ago, Tony Wright said:

I'm not sure whether this qualifies as a 'realistic' picture.........

 

 

You see it's a picture of a model 'me' (produced by ModelU and painted by Tim Elcock) taking a picture of an A4 at Little Bytham in 1958 (with a Rollieflex twin-lens reflex camera). 

 

The problem is, the figure represents a bloke in his seventies, taking a picture in 1958! In reality, that same bloke would only have been twelve years old then (and certainly not in possession of a Rollie). Not only that, he never set foot on LB's platforms. 

 

I wonder how many other layouts have their owners actually on them? Model railway snobbery, perhaps?  

 

 

Hi Tony.

That 3D print is very convincing! At first, I thought it was a photoshop because I see that you have employed the model you as your avatar!

 

In answer to your question, don't worry you are not alone...

 

For some reason I had the same sort of idea and used a Dapol figure which I painted in the style of my very first school uniform, that of Rudyard Kipling Infants school from 1970. Seen here watching a J50 pass the Halifax to Keighley platform at Queensbury in the early 1950s.

 

Just goes to show that this hobby of ours is way too much fun!

 

 

Regards Shaun. 

[30368]

1 hour ago, Tony Wright said:

I wonder how many other layouts have their owners actually on them? Model railway snobbery, perhaps?  

 

The model of you is first class and only adds to your lovely re-creation of LB.

Only one comment, you need to smarten up a bit! You have had that pale blue pullover on for years.... Perhaps another ModelU version of you in a decent suit? Only kidding Tony.

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

[Tony Wright]

29 minutes ago, 30368 said:

 

The model of you is first class and only adds to your lovely re-creation of LB.

Only one comment, you need to smarten up a bit! You have had that pale blue pullover on for years.... Perhaps another ModelU version of you in a decent suit? Only kidding Tony.

 

Kind regards,

 

Richard B

Thanks Richard,

 

'I'm' on two other layouts as well, and 'I'm' wearing the same clothes, only different colours. 

 

Regards,

 

Tony.  

[Ramblin Rich]

3 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

Thanks Richard,

 

'I'm' on two other layouts as well, and 'I'm' wearing the same clothes, only different colours. 

 

Regards,

 

Tony.  

Not quite as prolific or colourful as the models of Michael Portillo, which seem to pop up on a lot of exhibition layouts now!

[steaming_chris]

6 hours ago, Sasquatch said:

 

Just goes to show that this hobby of ours is way too much fun!

 

 

Regards Shaun. 

Hi Shaun,

for a bit of humour, I thought of "Jimmy Clitheroe".

Regards,

[jcredfer]

1 hour ago, steaming_chris said:

Hi Shaun,

for a bit of humour, I thought of "Jimmy Clitheroe".

Regards,

 

Ooh.....  gosh.....!

 

Ooh.....  No..... of course not, silly me for having that moment of madness thought...   wrong railway company.....     stupid memories of the past, getting confused, with old age.

 

.....  Although, they did go on Tour...?????

 

Bad night's sleep ahead.............   🥺

 

 

[Tony Wright]

And there I was thinking 'I' had more than one jumper and one pair of trousers..............

 

 

 

Not so! Still, since Edenham and Little Bytham are only a short distance apart (the two termini on Lord Willoughby's long-abandoned private railway), then 'I' must have visited them on the same day. 

 

Ian Wilson 'altered' history in building his beautiful model of Edenham, reasoning that the GN had actually taken over the Willoughby Railway, it becoming then part of the LNER and finally BR Eastern Region, closing finally under the Beeching axe. 

 

It really is wonderful modelling.......