Job's Modelling

I agree completely with Mikkel.

Just remember the process is as important as the result. Enjoy your photographic and modeling journey.

Just an other quality piece for your layout. I love to see what you do with your modeling skills. Looking great already, Looking forward to the final result.

Maybe. But I can remember I used the trial and effort method in that time. Think that the Launderette would have a more grey colour.

Thanks Mikkel. I wonder how would Nice Street look when I had used this colour palette..

Writing about a colour palette is one. Designing one is a totally different story. Because I didn’t want to do the try and error method for a diorama I had to do some research first. I used the following approach. I copied a “picture” from the website of Scalescenes or from another supplier to Publisher. In this case the aged brown brick from Scalescenes. This is the easy part. 1. For the creation of my colour palette I like to use a 1950’s colour scheme. I have used the B5252 colour chart before, for the making of shop signs. So for my colour palette I wanted to use this colour chart for finding some fitting colours. This did take some time. I also looked at the website of Citadel paints which colours I could use in combination of this brick sheet. When you use Publisher for this it is possible to layer the different elements. In this way I could see which colour fitted best. In this way I created a “reference sheet”. I have made already several as pdf. 2. The next step was selecting all the colours from the sheets I wanted to use for my diorama. After my first selection a decided to look for some other textures that would make my colour palette more balanced. Here is the colour scheme that I will use creating my next diorama. The main problem is that the colours on my computer are totally different from a printed version of the aged brown brick on canvas photo paper. As I said in the reply of my last entry one of the things I have noticed is that every type of professional photo paper gives his own colour. So I think I will be surprised in some cases. But the colour scheme is a good reference and with the use of pastels and pigments I can bring the colours more together. Next step is to create a black and white version of my new diorama. It will be called Back of Nice Street. Nice Street was one of my former diorama’s with a row of shops. At the other side of the street is a row of cottages. I will build some back yards of this cottages as part of my new diorama. Any suggestion or comments are welcome. Regards, Job

Maybe this drawing of Swindon works can give you some inspiration: http://www.fosrm.org.uk/list.htm I think you have enough space to make it look interesting. think about different in height, different roofs or roof textures, different type of windows etc. There are also some nice pictures to find of the Swindon Works.

It is good to see some progress on your layout. I like the changed layout plan. Looking forward to your background buildings. As far as I know this shunting layout will also give you the possibility to use goods wagons from different companies.

Love this post. Did remind my of a project I did with Yvette, my granddaughter a couple of months ago,building a middle-aged shed as for a surprise gift. Just a free card kit.

Thanks Alan for posting. I do have these pictures in my photo-archive. But after looking again I realized that to achieve that photographic atmosphere i Have to learn how to use my Photo-program. I hope I will find some time for that in the future. For now I will concentrate my on the building of my diorama's. .

The top photo is from Her a 2013 American romantic science-fiction comedy drama. I haven't seen it, but like the colour palette. Let's see what happens when I try to use a carefully selected colour palette.

For my one of the main problems is printing. When you use professional photo papers form Hahnemühle or Innova every paper can give an other colour I have noticed. And I use different kind of papers for different parts of my buildings. But for photographic purposes I think I have to set them back to black and white for the late 1950's. A have seen wonderful black and white picture from John Claridge and Frederick Wilfred. I tried this for the picture of Caroline Street in this post.

I agree with your comment. But it is also difficult to keep a colour palette in mind when you have not made a visual colour palette. Working with just 6 or 7 colours is a real challenge.

Let’s start with a quote from another RM blogger: “When I see some of the so called Art I become more and more convinced that railway modelling is very much an art form, yet one that we don't explore as much as we should.” Thanks for this one Dad-1. See his article here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/608/entry-17901-is-railway-modelling-art/ So now my contribution on this subject. On Facebook sometimes you get surprised with an inspiring post. This time my eye was cached by the following picture. When surfing around and reading several articles about this subject I found this text very interesting: “Every film has its own way of telling its story. The colour palette helps the director to enhance the emotional aspect of the film and helps viewers to respond to it.” This could be translated to my own diorama building. After my latest building and the enthusiastic respond I asked myself the question: what is the reason for this respond. The main success of this model is the careful choice of colours. All colours are fitting in the small palette of colours that I used. Carefully selected with every step. Not at the start. Another building with the same result I have built in the past for Northall Dock. The building on the right with the stuccoed wall is also built in the same way. Carefully looking at each texture before it was used. You also can see that for the total diorama much more colours are used. This is the case in most of my diorama’s I have built until now. I noticed this when people liked some pictures instead of my total diorama. I will give you an example: the picture of William Fish in front of his workshop. Actually that is my approach. Designing a diorama and then creating each building as a separate item. Only with Caroline Street I tried to use a colour palette. I believe I can create a more balanced and atmospheric diorama’s when I spent more attention to the colour palette I want to use. This will be a new challenge for my next diorama. And to answer the question "is Railway Modelling Art" is answered with the most common reaction I get when people see my diorama's. You are creating art. So for me Railway Modelling can be a form of art. Any suggestion or comments are welcome. Regards, Job

Thanks, Mikkel. The first one was designed in a totally other way and has given my some nice pictures. But my approach is different now and modelling skills have improved since then. Looked an Zerene Stacker. Looks very good, but first I want to see what my photo program can do. I have never tried to improve my photo's. The only thing I do is searching for the right picture using the rule of thirds's. I will safe the numbers 1,3 and 4 and decide later which one I will use.

Thanks for the compliment. I hope to create the same quality and atmosphere in my next diorama.

Thanks for the compliment, Mike. The tarmac road is "just" a texture from Scalescenes. But I always select a part of it that gives some "extra". The most important is that I print the texture on high quality textured photo paper. To give it a more realistic look I use an embossing pen and some selected pastels.

Thanks for the compliment.

I have finished the yard of J. Peterson Ltd on Grove Road. For the yard I used the following details: - Portland cement sacks - A spade - Pigments for sand - Fine basalt for aggregate - Some corrugated plates (photo paper) For the storage of the aggregate and sand I created staithes from brick. The cement sacks, spade and fine basalt are from Kotol, a German supplier of excellent detail materials in hO. Because I didn’t use any OO gauge detail materials in the yard I found them very useful to create the right atmosphere for a builder’s yard. The piles for the aggregate and sand I made from some scrap card and toilet paper. The piles were than painted using pigments and water. The aggregate pile is finished with fine basalt. The pile of sand with Venetian earth pigment. The corrugated iron plates are from a kit of Clever Models. Then I made some pictures to create the on the road scene for my story. I haven’t made a choice yet, so if you have a favourite please let me know. No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 If anyone has any experience with putting a driver in an Austin KX from Oxford Die-cast, please let me know. And as always suggestions and comments are appreciated. Kind regards Job

I love these out of the box kind of modeling. There are more amazing modelers in this world doing totally different things. I have already learned a lot of them. Looking forward to your finished Enterprise.

The first step was: buying the TX29 Aged Corrugated Iron PDF from Scalescenes. Step two reading an article by Emmanuel Nouallier about aged corrugated roofs. Although he uses a different technique his tips can be "translated" to my work method. Step three: the first picture. At first I just them just random, but for the roof with the window I cut a lot of them and selected the ones I wanted to use.

Thanks for the compliment. I was thinking of some brick built staithes with aggregates. l have bought some ho details which I could use., because I don't put figures in the yard.

I have done some further work on J. Peterson Ltd on Grove Road. But let me repeat my starting points: - Using my favorite method for design - Balanced colors - Just low relief For the building I took the garage from Scalescenes using a texture from Clever Models and a self-made sign. I did choice the brick wall from Model Railway Scenery Brick wall ((Railway Model Scenery) But making photographs I noticed another problem. The solution was to create the complete workshop. In this way it is possible to create a picture using the birds-eye position for my camera. I think I have to do a lot of try outs to get the right picture, but making digital pictures this is no problem. For the roof I also wanted balanced colors. The simplest one would be using slate. The zinc roofing from Scalescenes has the wrong colour in my case. The other possibility was to create a corrugated roof. The color from the Scalescenes range gave a balanced color look. So I created a corrugated roof for Peterson & Son Ltd. I think a simple photo guide will explain enough. Corrugated plates about 16 x 22 mm in 4 mm scale. I used 20 mm high as on the texture from Scalescenes. I created guide lines for gluing the plates in place. Just overlapping each other. From every plate a made the edges black with a pastel pencil to create some shadow lines. I used pastel pencils for weathering: sienna and umber are very useful. For more fresh rust you can use orange to brown colors. The finished corrugated roof. With on one side the wall coping. On the other side I made also a roof window from a left over from Scalescene Yard side with roof. I have to finish the roof with further wall copings. The next job will be to create a small builders yard. Any suggestions for creating a believable yard are very welcome. Kind regards, Job

Thanks for sharing.

Hi Mikkel, First of all I used an excellent texture from Clever Models. There textures are very realistic, although the brick work isn't typical English. Secondly I print the best resolution I have on high quality photographic paper. My last efforts using photographic canvas gives also a very good result for the Scalescenes textures. See the picture of Oval Road.