allan downes Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 [Reproduced by kind permission of Model Rail (August 2009), photographs by Martyn Barnwell] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ball2 Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 simply stunning ! please show me more. maybe some how to's also ??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 If you read the text in the images there's some 'how-to' included. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
amdaley Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 For goodness sake stop. I'm getting more depressed by the minute. Give us more please Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRealistic Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Why not build something complicated next time??!!!!!! But joking aside... absolutely and unbelievably brilliant, and thanks for sharing here and now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted March 11, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2013 Many thanks from me, too Mr Downes. Having followed your articles in the 70's in RM and others, I never thought that I would be able to get close to your standards, and I was right. However, it is great to see you here on RMWeb, and I for one, am very glad that you persevered with your initial posting difficulties. One day, when I feel that I know you a little better, and when I can produce some models which can even come a close seventy third to the competition that you set, then, perhaps, I may be allowed, or even allow myself to call you Allan. Until then, I will stick with the 'respect' due to you, and continue to call you Mr Downes, if I may? Regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 12, 2013 Author Share Posted March 12, 2013 Thanks for the compliments Alan, it's favourable acknowledgement that makes it all seem worth while... er... got any more?! Hi Ian You can call me Allan anytime, nodody else does, it's usually Oiyu or "You're nicked!" Cheers. Allan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redsrail Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Stunning !! No other words to explain this modelling, simply stunning. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 simply stunning ! please show me more. maybe some how to's also ??? If I remember correctly from reading the original articles when they came out - it's all done in the best Blue Peter fashion. The photo with page 82 and the Harlem Steel text on, look closely at one of the tanks on the right above the buildings, it looks remarkably like a PVA bottle with cap. A lot of it was creative use of normal household items. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 12, 2013 Author Share Posted March 12, 2013 You're right Adrian, it IS an empty glue bottle! Most of the secondary pipe work was made out of the plastic sprues from kits - I had a friend who was a 'kit building freak' whether he wanted the building or not, and he saved me all the leftover sprues. Also, I used to invade the grand kids toy cupboards when they were asleep and nicked anything that had 'steelwork potential' stamped all over it - some of those intergalagtic death and destruction machines...well Harlem Steel would never have been the same without a plastic War Of The Worlds going on!! Biggest bind however, was all the girder work, this had to be made up out of styrene sheet then re enforced behid the spans with steel rod. Allan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 You're right Adrian, it IS an empty glue bottle! Allan. Cheers - I remember being very impressed with it and the scale of it when it was first published. Again from details in the article, looking at the first and third photo's the bank of 4 large tanks are presumably empty aerosol cans, and on the last photo the small tank on the right is a lid from one of the aerosol cans. As I said very creative use of household items. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 Cheers - I remember being very impressed with it and the scale of it when it was first published. Again from details in the article, looking at the first and third photo's the bank of 4 large tanks are presumably empty aerosol cans, and on the last photo the small tank on the right is a lid from one of the aerosol cans. As I said very creative use of household items.Ah, exposed at last!! Yes, definately aerosol cans AND,several of the caps! BTW, has anyone noticed the ladies suspender clips anywhere?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGC Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 BTW, has anyone noticed the ladies suspender clips anywhere?! Yes, but not in your models!!!!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 Er, clarification on that if you would be so kind. Ministery of unmentionables. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PhilH Posted March 14, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14, 2013 Must be a b*gger to dust...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted March 14, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14, 2013 it's amazing to see you on this forum, it was your peco building plans book that persuaded me to have a go at scratchbuilding my first building - the country pub. Absolutely superb. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 Never dust a model, it's instant natural weathering!!! - and especially on locos!! Anyway, a few passing blasts with a matt varnish aerosol will seal the dust in and make it all look brand new again - aslo works on flock powdered scenery!! In the 'good ol' days' when we all we ever had was dyed flockpowder for scenery the greens were so bright and ghastly that I used to sweep up the floor, tip the sweepings onto the scenery then immadiately brush it off again - instant 100% improvement! I wont tell you what I do with locos - and especialy what I did to a full set of brand new EXLEY coaches just befor Brian Monagan arrived to photograph Pipers Mead!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 it's amazing to see you on this forum, it was your peco building plans book that persuaded me to have a go at scratchbuilding my first building - the country pub. Absolutely superb. Hi Colin. I tried that once and couldn't make head nor tail of the drawings - and I wrote the book!!!!!! Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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