Job's Modelling

You are not the only one that made a mistake. I did read your answer not good enough. But I intend to use enamel signs in one of my diorama's in the future and will post about that. Please keep giving me information so I can improve my diorama's.

Thanks for the very useful reply Don. I just just the printed textures to see the effect for the end result. So I didn't build the supports for the concrete fence. This also counts for the corrugated fence. Thanks for the information about the terraced houses. I would like to see your blog entries for the enamelled signs. Could you help me to find them? On the reference picture I used was no phonenumber. But I will keep this in mind for further signs I will create.

Thanks Mike. I'm still working on my maps. This is a slow and time consuming process. But I believe worth the efforts. One of my favorite "old" Dutch painters is Jacob Isaacksz. van Ruisdael. I love his beautiful skies. See his mill at Wijk bij Duurstede: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/SK-C-211

I wanted to keep it simple … My starting points were: - Using my favourite method for design - Balanced colours - Just low relief For this purpose, I asked Scalescenes to provide my a picture of the back of a row of terraced cottages, he uses on his website. He kindly provided me the picture. Many thanks for that. Then I realised I had “a lot” of not used prints. This could be the opportunity to use them. Using my map, I searched for a scene to build. My choice was to build J. Peterson Ltd on Grove Road. For the building I took the garage from Scalescenes. The used brick texture is from Clever Models. Sign self made. The door is a part from the Scalescenes garage. I needed to present a yard “wall” or “fence”. The see what would work best I made three possible sollutions (all scrapp parts) A concrete fence (Railway Model Scenery) A corrugated fence (Clever Models Brick wall ((Railway Model Scenery) On all three pictures you see just flat models. The discussion with my partner gave the following result: A corrugated fence (Clever Models), useful for a scrap yard or a bombed area A concrete fence (Railway Model Scenery), is this right in the late 1950’s? I couldn’t find reference pictures. Brick wall ((Railway Model Scenery) – gives a very balanced colour look. So I will use the brick wall. But making photographs from the diorama I noticed another problem. It was very hard to make the pictures I had in mind this way. I have found a solution, but more about that in my next entrée. Can anyone give an answer or information of the use of concrete fences in the late 1950’s? As always suggestions, etc., etc. … are welcome Kind regards, Job

Some painters can be very inspirational. Modelers can learn from them to create atmosphere, use of color or balance Thanks for sharing the link.

I really like the early works of Mondriaan, for instance his tree drawings and paintings. For my inspiration can come from different sources, For instance music, movies, TV-series and books. Currently I'm reading "Shadows of the workhouse"by Jennifer Worth (Dutch translation) and I bought in the English Bookshop in Amsterdam Modernity Britain 1957 - 1962 by David Kynaston. The latest is very interesting but takes more time to read for me.

Some not so famous Dutch painters are for instance are Rembrandt, Vermeer and van Gogh. Just have a look at them on the internet. But I like the more early works of Mondriaan and the process of making his later, as you say, brighter works. To make them he started with a realistic drawing and the final result became visible after about 20 drawings later. And as you know the process of making a diorama is for my as important as the final result. And I agree with you completely about what you say about the inspiration you can get from your children.

Last Sunday I was with my daughter in Amsterdam. She needed some help from me. We also wanted, after finishing our duties, to visit the Stedelijk Museum. For me it was a long time ago. But I have enjoyed it very much, especially the paintings of my favorite Dutch painter Piet Mondriaan. The way creates his balanced basic colored paintings is just great. I saw that a lot of years ago on a drawing exposition in another museum. But this is one of my favorites: Tableau No.1 It gave my also the inspiration for the title of this entry. I love the ‘urban’ colours of the painting. The kind of atmosphere I try to achieve in my diorama’s. In the tram to the museum my daughter and I were discussing my diorama’s en story telling. When I told her that I would like to create some diorama’s she loved the idea. She says in this way you don’t have only the delivering scenes. It will give your story a livelier image. So from now on there will be an On the Road No. …. Of course with a number next time. So I decided to create a new map as a reference, incorporating my already built diorama’s. I will use the map as a reference. So it is not to scale and I can make some chances if necessary. I also divided Northall in several districts, because the program I use is limited for making my maps. The colours in the map I use as an analyse key. For instance, the light blue colour stands for cottages build in the Victorian area. And if you are missing some of my diorama’s … they are on another district map. To show you what I mean I have used Station Road to make an on the road picture. As always suggestions, etc., etc. … are welcome Kind regards, Job

You have done a great job.

Looking forward to future developments ...

Thanks for the compliments The first picture is indeed my first black and white 3D design. You can see that there have been some changing in the final result, although the design kept in tact. I have never tried the layered approach on the small station posters of Scalescenes. for me it is almost impossible to create the black sides in a layered approach using photographic paper. So I decided to use two advertising boards with black sides. Cutting out the advertising the black sides were still on the original paper. Laying the second advertising poster under the cut out version I got build-up black sides. I hope this explains it a little more.

The last building is William Fish & Son. The building is based on the T024a Industrial A – Warehouse from Scalescenes. For the roof I used the zinc roof texture from the Scalescenes Garage and for the slated part TX184 = Mixed grey roof slates from Modelrailwayscenery. When I designed this diorama I wanted to use a large advertising board on this building. To create tis one I used a layered approach. And as I promised I would show you how I did it. You need two advertising boards to realise it. Cut out the poster inside the frame. Next step: Put the frame on top of the second poster. And the end result: a layered advertising board. Although almost invisible on the pictures. Then you can glue the advertising board on the building. The picture shows the final result after weathering. The building is built in the same way as the goods receiving office and also weathered, using the same materials. The doors are from the internet. The sign is made myself using Publisher. Although the roof texture is designed to glue it in one part on the roof, I decided to using the method I also used for the roof for the Goods Receiving Office. A layered approach gives you the opportunity to create an individual roof. As you can see I used the roof Scalescenes created for the ware house as a guidance. For me the mixed slates are going very well with the colours of the bricks. I also wanted to give the side wall of the building some more character. So I gave it a window and u bricked up door. And because a picture says more than a thousand words some pictures op the final building. The alley between the two buildings. A birds-eye view of the building Now I can give the diorama a final finishing touch. Looking critical to the pictures I have made an adding a final detail or some final details. As always comments and suggestions are welcome. Kind regards, Job

Looks great.

Great to see some more progress on your layout. I hope the farmer is alright or that help will soon arrive.

Your bridge looks really good. I suggest just some additional weathering with pastels or pigments.

Hi Mikkel, Thanks for your informative answer. Every one has to develop his own way of story telling, and I agree with you that there are different ways to do it. For me the social aspect in railway modelling was always the most important. For railway freight traffic is, for my more interesting before the 1960's. And I loved to see the development of freight wagons and the use of them. I believe that you will see what I mean when I have finished my second chapter. For as far as I know most diorama's are vignettes. Giving the viewer an image of a situation or a person in a (time based) setting. I now realise that making a story with several diorama's asks also for a different approach to create the story.

Unfortunately there is some lose of quality placing it as movie on Facebook. My PowerPoint presentation is much sharper. But I still hope you will enjoy it. And a added a new PDF for the story because I wasn't content with the layout in the first edition.

Making a railway layout or a diorama is actually telling a story. I found an interesting article about this subject, although aimed for writing a short story or a novel. But I have already seen some different approaches passing by on the RM web. 1. VIGNETTE Typically, a vignette is defined as something that is incomplete, an impressionistic scene that centre’s around one moment, and gives the viewer an image of a person or place. For my layouts and diorama’s are vignettes. The viewer of a layout will see a train pass by and fills in his own story. The same occurs when someone is looking to a diorama. The interior of the Great Eastern pub in Bridge Street. 2. SLICE OF LIFE Similar to the vignette, a slice of life story is incomplete in that it focuses on the common, a random series of moments or scenes. Often times these feel almost like journalism, documenting events without offering up any explanation, any thoughts or understanding of what has happened—and the story typically has an open ending. This could for instance be the case if you look at these two pictures of Daisy Page on Station Road. 3. LIST There are any numbers of ways to write a list story, but typically, it is broken up into either numbered scenes, or a collection of objects or ideas under one concept. My story about Northall is actually a list story. I have broken the story up in the days of the week. In this way I will try to give a time based picture of the life of the family Page in Northall. For this see the attached PDF. Sunday 23 august 1959.pdf 4. LENGTH You’ve certainly written short stories in a variety of lengths, but typically the length of a short story is supposed to be between about 1,000-7,500 words. But it is possible to use less words to tell a story. The honourable slipper boy told by Mikkel (picture used with permission) (http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/75/entry-16866-the-honourable-slipper-boy-part-1/ ) is such a short story, told in pictures and words. For my Northall Story, that I will tell this way as a multimedia project, I have calculated that it will be possible to do it in about 3000 words. You can find my own multimedia presentation here: https://www.facebook.com/job.weessies/videos/947390605350238/ IN CONCLUSION The bottom line is that what form you use it has to serve the story. I hope that I’ve inspired you to stretch yourself and experiment a bit. I’m sure I’ve missed some great ideas. But take some chances, experiment a little bit, and see what happens. It could be fun. And don’t forget to publish it on the RM-web. And as usual suggestion and comments are most welcome. Kind regards, Job

For my it was the most difficult part to build. I think I still have not used the right card for making these tiny chairs. But using the templates it must be possible to build them with plastic card and profiles. The chairs and table can then be painted and other textures can be used as preferred.

Thanks Mikkel. Just have a look at http://shop.finescalebuildings.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=70&products_id=194for the excellent furniture. For the colours I used the information I found on internet. Thanks for the suggestion. I will send some pictures to Dart Casting and Finescalebuildings.

Thanks for the complement. Chris's book is also a book that I use regularly.

This title might surprise you, but we are going back to Caroline Street to the house of Arthur Page. No, I don’t want to build an interior into the existing diorama. I needed just the interior for the illustration of my story. In his excellent book “Cottage Modelling for Pendon” Chris Pilton is a good chapter about when you should build an interior. The most important is the room of the interior will be visible for the viewer and mostly the room in which the interior is made has lighting attached. I have done is, although with indirect lightning for my shops on Station Road. See the picture of Walden Books below: The interior that I have created now is a small diorama on itself. It contains a front room and a kitchen. In some background information I found was stated that: “Many people used their front room just for special occasions and it was kept tidy for this purpose. Many were hardly ever used because of this.” In my case Arthur Page is used this room for listening to the radio and reading a newspaper or book. The kitchen was the centre of the family live, because it was the warmest room in the house with heat from the range. Lucy Page is making the lunch. I was gladly surprised when I saw that Dart Castings had added in the Monty figures range a housewife figure. Used textures. For the building of the diorama I used textures from: Scalescenes : kitchen wall and the kitchen floor Modelrailwayscenery: wall paper in the front room and wooden floor. Finescale buildings: kitchen range and furniture in the front room and kitchen. Internet: dollhouse free available resized textures (photo’s) and other textures/pictures I resized personally, for instance the radio in the front room. Question: For my story and the building of my next diorama (when I have finished Oval Road) I am looking for pictures of backyards / gardens with washing lines with wash from the (late) 1950’s. Monday was in the 1950’s washing day. If anyone can help me with this, I would be very thankful. Kind regards, Job

Lovely building. Looking forward of the development.

You are doing a great job here. Love your building. For colours you can have a look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_UK_Railways/Colours_list , here http://www.stationcolours.info/index.php?p=1_5_GWR and here http://www.bwwmrc.co.uk/paint.shtml

Thanks for your feedback. Working this way gives me also the opportunity to do some more figure painting. The idea of making a story in Powerpoint is still on my mind. More in the way of the The honourable slipper boy" , a picture with a smaller amount of text. In this way the reader can follow the story dia by dia. But I will also work out my story as booklet, the way I started it. Will be continued.