Popular Post Killybegs Posted July 21, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 21, 2015 Once the main backscene was sorted, I turned my attention to the view through the bridge. Using Photoshop, I combined a small section of the backscene with one of the canal photographs that I took last year. While I was at it, I added the continuation of the road that passes under the bridge. I am quite pleased with the result ...... 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Brinkly Posted July 21, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 21, 2015 I thought that was real (as in a model) before I read the caption! Regards, Nick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted July 21, 2015 Author Share Posted July 21, 2015 I thought that was real (as in a model) before I read the caption! Regards, Nick. The model stops immediately behind the lock gates with the photographic back scene beyond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted July 21, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 21, 2015 I'm giving up.That is superb John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 I'm giving up.That is superb John. Don't agree with your first statement Rob, but certainly the second ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted July 21, 2015 Author Share Posted July 21, 2015 I'm giving up.That is superb John. Definitely do not give up, your work is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted July 21, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 21, 2015 Hope you don't mind, John. A period image. 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 .................I am quite pleased with the result ...... 5173.21.jpg And so you should be, An excellent effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrowroad Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Once the main backscene was sorted, I turned my attention to the view through the bridge. Using Photoshop, I combined a small section of the backscene with one of the canal photographs that I took last year. While I was at it, I added the continuation of the road that passes under the bridge. I am quite pleased with the result ...... 5173.21.jpg John, That looks magnificent! Every time I look at the view through the bridge it reminds me of a canal trip along there when some local oiks untied our hired canal boat in the middle of the night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 23, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 23, 2015 I've just found this layout. Started to read your plasticard coach build and then clicked your postscriplink. I'm lost for words; well almost as this is a superb model as is your modelling in so many other areas. Pendonesque and Kingstorrish at the very least. I'm totally inspired (well at least for the time....you would understand if you knew my modelling efforts that last about two or three days at most.....) Phil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted July 25, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 25, 2015 Oh ! Who photoshopped out the terraced houses, hop warehouses and floodlights for St Georges Lane footy ground in the distance? Hee hee Guess they just didn't fit with the Malverns background any way Phil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted July 25, 2015 Author Share Posted July 25, 2015 Oh ! Who photoshopped out the terraced houses, hop warehouses and floodlights for St Georges Lane footy ground in the distance? Hee hee Guess they just didn't fit with the Malverns background any way Phil I have to own up that the canal photo that I used wasn't taken in the prototype location, but further north on a 'country' section of the canal. I had meant to photoshop out the two big white blocks of flats in Worcester (I'm assuming they were built post 1959), which I don't think appear in any of the photographs, but I forgot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted July 25, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 25, 2015 No worries John - it looks great any way!!!! Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted July 25, 2015 Author Share Posted July 25, 2015 Back to the Brit. The new etched smoke deflectors have been assembled, painted and the name boards added. They are yet to be fixed in place as I still have the front lamp irons to do and that will be easier without the deflectors. The new ATC conduit is fixed in place and painted. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike G Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 I really despise people with this much skill. That is going to be a beautiful engine! Has it had it's wheels done yet? Any chance of a photo with them all in place, just something to drool over.... Mike 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted July 28, 2015 Author Share Posted July 28, 2015 I really despise people with this much skill. That is going to be a beautiful engine! Has it had it's wheels done yet? Any chance of a photo with them all in place, just something to drool over.... Mike All in good time Mike! Just to keep you going, you can have a few wheels in this shot. Smoke deflectors, BR(W) lamp irons, couplings, pipework and front step stays fitted. I'm still in two minds about fitting the ATC shoe. Looking at photographs, it seems to sit well back within the depth of the bogie. This won't work on the model as the gap between the axle and the front cross brace ain't wide enough. The only option that I have come up with would be to modify the white metal casting and fix it the bogie in some way. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted July 28, 2015 Author Share Posted July 28, 2015 (edited) I've solved the problem of the ATC shoe. I thinned down the back of the casting and then notched it to fit over the end of the axle retaining strap to which it was soldered with low melt solder. Its sitting very slightly low at the moment, but that is easily rectified. Edited July 28, 2015 by Killybegs 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted July 28, 2015 Author Share Posted July 28, 2015 (edited) I don't know whether I approve of you drooling over this Mike ............ Lots of work still to be done! Edited for better picture quality Edited July 28, 2015 by Killybegs 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted July 28, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 28, 2015 Looking really good John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike G Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Don't ever bring her to the main land...it may not make it back! That is going to look the dog's, once all the dangly bits have been attached. A superb piece of modeling. Mike (wiping his mouth) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted July 29, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 29, 2015 I do wonder about the nameplate colour John. It's a very long time since I saw the WR 'Brits' but none of them stuck in my mind as having red background nameplates. A bit of delving on the 'net has found a view of 70018 at what looks like Patchway with the nameplate background looking the sam as the smoke deflectors. However in at least two pictures after it moved to the LMR the background of the nameplate looks noticeably lighter than the smoke deflectors (and in one view it has very clearly acquired Crewe deflectors in place of the Swindon ones. All of these are, alas, b&w pics and I can't find any decent colour pics of it on the 'net while I know it's not worth looking in any of my books as I won't find any there. Sorry to be a nuisance but I do wonder .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Iron Duke had red back nameplates in 1967. Britannia itself had red back nameplates, indeed I seem to remember that was how Triang painted them. They were red on a number of the smaller 'Clans'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted July 29, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 29, 2015 Iron Duke had red back nameplates in 1967. Britannia itself had red back nameplates, indeed I seem to remember that was how Triang painted them. They were red on a number of the smaller 'Clans'. Judging by b&w photos and the tonal difference they show I suspect that the 'Britannia' nameplates came out of works with a red background on, probably, all of the engines named from new. However the clear few pictures that I can find of any of the class with Swindon smoke deflectors, including 70018, show the nameplate background colour as a tonal match, or near match, for the smoke deflectors. I've now done a bit more delving and found other pictures in books - including some very clear ones by George Heiron of engines standing at stations plus a reproduction of one of his paintings (in colour) which seem to tell the following story - with their original smoke deflectors the engines mostly appear to have red background nameplates although one might be black (but that could have been due to dirt). With the Swindon smoke deflectors, including the colour reproduction of one of GH's paintings, the nameplates all appear to have black backgrounds. 70025 appears in several views and very definitely went from what appears to have originally been a red background to a black background when fitted with Swindon smoke deflectors. In summary it looks like Swindon repainted the nameplates black at some stage, possibly on earlier shopping but definitely when the smoke deflectors were altered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted July 30, 2015 Author Share Posted July 30, 2015 I did wonder about the nameplates myself and I am inclined to agree with you Mike. I've just been looking at Rex Coffin's photos in 'Steam around Bristol'. In both pictures he appears to have been using a filter as the buffer beams come out quite light whereas the nameplates are dark. I think it's out with the paint brush! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted July 30, 2015 Author Share Posted July 30, 2015 Et voilà ........... 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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