Job's Modelling

After looking to my entry again I will see if it is possible to add John and Daisy in the diorama of Caroline Street.

Mikkel suggested to see if it was possible to publish the story of a diorama in the gallery on the RM web. After his excellent entry about "The honourable slipper boy" http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/75/entry-17254-the-honourable-slipper-boy-part-3/ it was time to see if his suggestion was workable. I have my story in Word, but I know that with the help of Publisher I can putting a picture ans a text together. You can then save the individual pages as JPEG-file. Now the picture and text cn be cut to a "fitting" JPEG file. You can see the result below. Please give my some feedback about this approach. I have also published these pictures in My Gallery under Station Road. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/album/3457-station-road/ Thanks fro reading, Kind Regards, Job PS. I have created an other picture. After this try out I know I have to build my diorama's in the right order. And every time I have to update my basic story. Using the same figures in different diorama's will also give great opportunities.

Great story. Love the pictures. I have just one question. How do you replace your figures without making holes in the baseboard? This could also be nice to use in my diorama's. Will give extra possibilities for story telling.

This looks very promising. I like to read your blog. Also best wishes and a healthy 2016 to you.

Always nice to see some pictures of your layout. Best wishes for 2016.

I can not wait for the third part. The quote of dr. Watson tells how I'm standing in the story. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that he saw clearly not only what had happened, but what was about to happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and grotesque. Dr. John Watson

I believe this could give a nice scene.

That's what makes a three dimension picture worth to create. The placement of the details to create a balanced appearance. It also gives my the opportunity to scene scenes with other figures and another car. Station Road could set in this way to another day in the week.

Thanks for your comment. I have also weathered the cars (wheels and underside) with Vallejo 76521 Oiled Earth wash.

Because of my eye troubles modelling was not good possible, so I did some research on internet about the amount of cars in the 1950’s. As far as I could find out about 1 on the three families had a car at the end of the 1950’s. I decided that for Northall that means that every diorama with three or more buildings/houses should have a car. Until now I had concentrated me on the British Railways road cars. Only in Bridge Street and Nice street, which are larger diorama’s, I placed a car. I wanted to try out the use of a car also in my smaller diorama’s Station Road and Caroline Street. I also spent of lot of time in the research of what models could be used. There is a lot information available on this subject. The period of building, the changes made and the colours the cars were made in for instance. For OO gauge not all information is usable. Because Northall is places somewhere in Greater London I decided to give the cars also registration numbers that were used in Greater London. For Northall the area code for London North East (Middlesex to 1963) will be used. To create the car numbers, I made use of the ‘Vintage Car registration’ texture of ModelrailwayScenery. In station road I place an Austin A30 A2S4 2 door Deluxe, built in 1959 in Chelsea grey with mid blue roof. The registration number: KMD 302. The car belongs to Harry Wild a reporter of the Northall Gazette. I painted the roof of the car myself. For Caroline Street I used an Austin A35 4 door Deluxe, built in 1959 in County Cream. The registration number: KMM 302. The car belongs to Charles Bishop, a commercial traveller who lives on number 3. When I put the cars in the diorama’s I noticed that they were very shiny. So I gave both cars a coat of mat varnish. So, maybe, you will see more cars in my diorama’s in the future. Kind regards, Job

Mikkel, I like the idea and will give it a try. You could do the same with your stories.

Thanks for the reply. I like to make the descriptions and histories of the persons and buildings for my Northall diorama's I think your blog ( http://farthinglayouts.blogspot.nl/) has a great legend. Maybe you can create different railway companies for your stock. I create all my blog entries in Word ans save them as a file. A have created a separate map for the entries, were all these files are saved on subject, for instance Bridge Street.

Mikkel said something about presentation of our modelling effort as an answer in my latest blog. I quote the line that made me write this entry: “ The blogs are fine but after a while the stories "disappear" into the depths of the blogosphere, and it would be nice to have them more easily accessible.” Then I realized that this was also the case with my entries in the card modelling and diorama forum. After looking at the entries in the card modelling section I saw I lost some information that could be useful for my ‘story’ about Northall. In an earlier entry I wrote something about this subject. Now I will show you how I save my information. I have made map called Northall information index: In the B section I saved information about Bridge Street, my first project. To save your information you have three possible solutions: - Your own computer (with a backup I suppose) - In the cloud (for me that’s the RM-web for my modelling publications) - Printing – print what you absolute don’t want to lose. With the information I found in the entries in the card modelling forum, especially about the Great Eastern pub, I made a new file named Bridge Street description. I will share the part about the Great Eastern pub with you in this entry. No 2 Bridge Street - The Great Eastern History: In 1901 Francis Gibson (1876) from Oxford had taken over the Great Eastern. Succeeded in 1921 by Francis Gibson (1897), in 1938 by William Baker (1912) from Forby and in 1944 by Robert Bond (1929) Albert Miller took over the pub in 1955. Albert Miller, head, (1925) aged 34, pub keeper, Agnes Martin, wife (1927) aged 32, Madeline Miller, daughter, (1948) aged 11, scholar William Miller, son, (1950) aged 9, scholar They live above the pub. The pub is locally well known for its own ‘house’ darts competition. The pub champion then moved on to the Area final of the “The News of the World Individual darts tournament”. It is not money they are playing for but a huge trophy. This trophy may be held by the champion’s pub for a year, plus a replica for the winner and fame. The NoW was the chance for any man, who could throw a great dart to become not only a local but also a national hero. Arthur’s colleague Maurice Collum takes every year of this great event. He is also a member of the pubs dart team. Albert Miller is a collector of shipping posters of the Great Railway Company’s before 1948. In the pub he has exposed his collection. Mr Miller is also great expert of Scottish whiskey’s. Thomas Molloy is talking with Albert Miller about a news article While Thomas Malloy is sitting at the bar, talking with the pub owner, is Joan Bertram daydreaming in her room. Ethel Pope (1931) aged 28 – barmaid Ethel Pope is has parked her bicycle in back yard of the pub. The family’s cat Blacky is sitting on a cask to welcome her. Her duties have still to start. Guests: Joan Bertram (1933) aged 26 from London Thomas Molloy (1902) aged 57 sales agent from Oxford Thanks for reading and I hope my next entry is again about some modelling. And of course any comments, suggestion or additional information is welcome. Regards, Job PS. And for those who like the complete description of Bridge Street my PDF version: Bridge Street description.pdf

The new water tank is a nice addition to the layout, Nice to see again some of your progress.

Thanks Steve. I'm always looking for good background information and I hope that I can 'translate' that to a good story and believable scenes.

Inspiring. An other way to tell a story. Love your pictures. Will keep your approach in mind for my Northall diorama's. I liked the story,

Hello Mikkel. I have got eyedroppers and my eyes are improving. May take some time, but as always I keep thinking positive. Your reply is very interesting and worth thinking about it. Maybe I can post me thoughts about this subject in one of my next entries. Internet (& Cloud) are great, but have also their limitations, as I last weekend read in an article about saving your pictures.

Thanks for the compliment. I like to do the research to create my story.

Thanks Mark, For me it's a way to create some "believable' scenes. Hope the story also gives the right atmosphere.

Unfortunately, I have an unfocused vision at this moment. This makes it difficult to model on the level I want. So I decided to work on my story. The story is about a regular week of the live of the family Page, living in Caroline Street in Northall. I will use pictures of my diorama’s to illustrate the story. Sunday 23 August 1959 It’s a cloudy morning when Arthur Page is sitting in front of his late Victorian cottage in Caroline Street. Margaret Gates is telling him she is going for a walk with her parents in the park near Victoria Road. Their dog Ponto may come with them Next to his chair lays the latest edition from the Northall Gazette, which he was reading before he was interrupted. Arthur is concerned about the main article about the new housing plans of the Northall Council. His wife Lucy is busy in their small kitchen making the Sunday lunch – usually roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, because Arthur does not like most other meats. This Sunday she makes his favourite desert: apple pie. Arthur, Lucy and their daughter Daisy and are enjoying the lunch together. Lucy makes for Arthur and her some coffee brewed in the percolator. After lunch Daisy is picked up by John Lovell, her boyfriend. Arthur and Lucy are talking about the housing article in the Northall Gazette. They both don’t want to remove to the new estate. Lucy says she is a little worried about the friendship of Daisy with John. But Arthur says she must have an open mind, because he sees that John is working hard, despite of his colourful appearance. He also says that he can see that his daughter loves John. William is now going listening to the radio to the Billy Cotton Band Show, one of his favourite radio programs. Lucy is going to her son Frank, who lives in a flat on the Muriel Campden Estate, North Court. His wife Christine is at the end of her pregnancy and can give birth to her first child very soon. At the end of the street is the premises of Robert Oxford and Sons, Steam Engine Printers. Here the Northall Gazette is printed. They also are publishers of fictive books. Arthur’s daughter Daisy likes the work she is doing at Oxford Ltd and she hopes to be a book editor in the future. John has picked up Daisy. They have met each other a couple of months ago at a party in The Phoenix Tavern when two colleagues of them got married. They are walking to Station Road talking about the things they like to do in the future. When John was 16 he took up amateur photography. He likes to photograph old derelict buildings. Daisy likes the picture he made of the old empty office at Northall Dock. Last week he had a look in the window of Harry Parsons photo shop and saw a beautiful Rolleiflex. It’s is still above his budget, so he will have to save more money for he can buy one. He wants to show it to Florence. John likes to become a freelance photographer making social engaged daily life pictures. John wears Teddy Boy clothing because he wants to stand out. He is in many ways a shy and humble young man. He actually loves a quit live, spending a lot of his spare time in his dark room. Arthur works at the factory of Ince & Mayhew, where he got the opportunity to work as an industrial advertising photographer for the company. This factory produces well designed first class office furniture and publishes every year a high quality catalog. Arthur finds Daisy a very attractive girl, but it is her warmth and kindness which likes he most. Daisy is a fan of Elvis Presley. She looks with a lot of interest at the shop window of Arch Records, on Station Road, which has an Elvis Presley theme. They like to visit the record shop, as other Northall teenagers, because James Johnson can tell nice anecdotes of today’s music scene. Last week they visited Walden books. Daisy loves to read and is always looking for some nice Victorian poetry and novels. John is not interested in literature, but he found a second hand example of Photography Theory and Practice from L. P Clerc and George E Brown from 1937 in the book shop. The owner of the bookshop Mr. Newton was very helpful and Arthur will now regularly go to his shop searching for books about photography. After seeing the ODEON board Daisy suggest to go to Serious Charge featuring Cliff Richard next Saturday evening. She likes his new hit Living Doll. John takes Daisy to the milk bar on the corner of High Street and Queen Street to treat her on her favourite sorbet, a Knickerbocker Glories. Arthur likes the Italian coffee they serve. Then he will walk her home. End. When the total story is finished I will publish it aa a PDF. And comments on the story are welcome. My only reference to that period are my memories as a boy living in a small apartment in Utrecht in 1959. Thanks for reading. Job

Looking forward to the result.

Always nice to read how you work on the details of your layout.

I have also looked to this set of figures. Think some of them are usable for a 1950's scene. I'm also struggling with the illusive shadow-work of my 4 mm figures. Especially to get it right on the faces. To get it better I have to practice more and just paint more figures. Your figures look convincing and on a layout we look at the total scene and not just to a figure.

This is a nice building lovely build. I like the interior.