Job's Modelling

33 minutes ago, Edwardian said:

Superb job.

Thank you.  Still learning from other modelers.

3 hours ago, Mikkel said:

Hi Job, good to see an update from you!

 

A charming building, you've managed to capture the rural and rustic look really well I think. Some model buildings are exact scale replicas but look like empty shells. This one is well modelled and looks like someone actually lives in it. 

 

Thanks Mikkel. Modelling helps me to keep my mind "empty".

I still have to figure out who is living in the cottage, but that is for one of the later entries.

9 hours ago, wenlock said:

Another lovely building Job!  The window sills look unusually deep to my eye, extending over 4 brick courses would mean they were over a foot thick.  Certainly not impossible, but definitely unusual!

 

BW

 

Dave

Thanks for the compliment and comment. I will keep your comment on the window sills in mind for my next buildings.

Some great models on a nicely modelled layout.

Again some nice pictures from your layout. Love the Hornby Class 20 combo hauls a short engineering train picture.

You are a modelling hero. Congratulations,

17 hours ago, Marly51 said:

I shall scan some photographs and paintings from my book collection on old cottages and farmhouses, Job. Will send them by message attachment so you can use them for reference.

 

Some of Stanley Spencer’s paintings have farmhouses similar to your model. Although these paintings date to the late 1930s, country buildings and roads would not have changed a lot over the next 20 years, as the boom in car ownership didn’t really take off until the 1960s. 

 

https://paintdropskeepfalling.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/stanley-spencer-exhibition-at-compton-verney/

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/gardening/2016/04/15/cottages-edit_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.jpg?imwidth=450

 

As Dave (Wenlock) has described, roads to farms can be narrow, with grass verges, lined with thick hedges - some farm roads could be rutted, with potholes and  grass sprouting in the middle. The top surface of the road would be chippings from local stone quarries. Here in the Highlands the roads in the 1950s were often a pinky red colour. Maybe someone who grew up in the area you are modelling could advise on local stone. An old farmhouse path could have paths made from large slabs of slate, or simply gravel.

 

Good luck with the model! 

 

Marlyn

Hi Marlyn,

Many thanks for your information.

Got also some useful information from Nick Salzman, who has a great blog: https://moorestonemodeller.wordpress.com/2019/05/08/wheelwright-for-pendon/ 

A lot of inspiration and some nice articles.

Looking forward to your scans.

Greetings,

Job

A great addition to your station. I also forgot to plan some telegraph poles along the road of my farm diorama.

Thanks for all the information, will have further look at that. Again some great modelling, that brings your station more alive.

46 minutes ago, wenlock said:

Hi Job, i'm really looking forward to seeing this develop:-)

 

I wasn't around in the 50's, but as a small boy in the mid 60's I spent a lot of time on my Uncle's farm in rural Staffordshire.  The lanes there were tarmac and then covered in fine chippings with grass growing in patches down the centre of the road.  There were certainly no curbs at the side of the lane, just grass banks full of wild flowers, cow parsley, rosebay willow herb along with primroses and bluebells in the Spring.  

 

Best wishes

 

Dave

Thanks Dave.

That's for me very useful information. Would be a challenge to create the verge of a road in front of the diorama  with wild flowers, etc.

3 hours ago, Mikkel said:

Hi Job,

 

I can't help you with the subject but I do like the idea. Nice of you to dedicate it to your wife, you may be a lucky guy but it sounds like she is too 

 

I like the man leading the cow/bull! Can I ask who made the cows, please?

 

Mikkel, I agree with you about the first sentence.

The cows and bull you can find here RDS10: http://johndaymodels.webplus.net/scenics.html 

I think you would like the Victorian postbox as well.

6 hours ago, Mikkel said:

Hi Job. It must be difficult, but it sounds like you and your wife are adapting to the circumstances. 

 

It's a lovely scene. It looks like the company are very conscious about corporate livery, and that they like blue and drak grey  The downpipes and poster are typical of the little details that you always incorporate so well - not too prominent, but just there in the background, as in the real world.

We have done this before and have learned to communicate to solve this kind of problems. Most important is that she can receive the help she needs to handle it.

Thanks for the comment on my scene. The colour blue was not meant to be a corporate livery. I painted the coalmen first completely in grey, but on the advice of Daryle Toney I used a blue colour. Think the result is better now. 

Was surprised by a comment of my daughter: "Your built Austin K8 lorry has more character than the other model (an Oxford Diecast K8)". 

16 hours ago, Marly51 said:

Lovely period scenario, Job! I love all your projects!!

I am modelling a coal merchant scene on an N Gauge layout and will be looking for a flatbed coal lorry suitable for the 1930s in the Northern Highlands.. I have also found an old ‘Dinky’ flatbed Fordson lorry for my 0 Gauge CakeBox diorama based on the Hornby Clockwork models of the 1940s/1950s. Now I need to model some coal sacks in 7mm scale?

 

Marlyn

Thanks for the reply. Hope you will find a suitable model in N gauge. It must be possible to model some coal sacks in O gauge using a modelling clay like DAS.

My condolences for your loss. I loved reading his blog.

On 13/04/2019 at 16:26, shortliner said:

I'd have been tempted to not fill in the left-hand side - I think it would have worked rather well with a brick wall either side, and a set back gas-lamp street-light as a rather dark and gloomy back alley "cut-through" to the factory behind - possibly with a "night-bird" propping up the lamppost. waiting for her feller to come away from work  Far-be-it from me to suggest a "customer"!)

Shortliner, I love the idea. But because of the angle I used to create the scene, it is not possible to create it. Such a small box has also his limitations. 

15 hours ago, Mikkel said:

I really enjoyed that, Job. The way you made the scene three dimensional by fitting the the garage in front and at an angle is very clever, few people would have solved it like that, I think. 

 

Your Ikea challenges remind me of the Dogme 95 rules - peel away all the special effects and apply creativity!  See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95

 

Mikkel, thanks for the compliment.

I have seen a couple of movies from the Dogme 95 movement. Reading their rules, I think I always try to use the following 4:

·         If a particular prop is necessary for the story, a location must be chosen where this prop is to be found.

I always look for a good reference picture

·         The film must be in colour.

I always build my diorama’s in colour.

·         The film must not contain superficial action. (Murders, weapons, etc. must not occur.)

My dioramas are always based on the social life in the late 1950’s.

·         The director must not be credited.

I hope this counts also for me as the creator of my diorama’s

In my next Ikea challenge there will be a lorry and some figures based on a 1950’s frequently seen scene.

Job

Looks great already. Looking forward to your next entry.

Hi Mikkel.

Learned again from your excellent blog entry. Will see what I can do with it in both aspects. Painting and storage of my figures and cars. 

Looking forward to your finished bus with some passenger.

I agree with Simon. But by careful with to many bushes, some grass will be fine.

A suggestion to create this is make first a very small thin edge with some card around the church. You will have to lift the church out to replace a lamp when  necessary.

Paint the card with a brown paint and then add grass to it.

Always nice to see pictures of your layout and discovering new details.

19 minutes ago, wenlock said:

Looks great Job and that Chestnut seller looks just right!:-)

Thank you for your suggestion and the complement. I enjoyed building and painting the scene.

Thanks Mikkel. 

I think you have a point about the matt varnish. Wil think of that next time. But …. When it is standing in our living room the colours don't look to shiny. The light I used to make the picture could also be the problem. I have to solve this out.

2 minutes ago, snitzl said:

Hi Jobs, The diorama looks extremely natural to me and I especialy like the weathering around the base of the building, that's a detail most often forgotton, the chestnut seller is definitely a nice touch.

Thank you.

I always try to create a natural looking diorama. For the buildings I prefer to use the method they use for Pendon. But with these laser cut parts that is not possible. There was small edge at the inside of the pavement which I painted black. With some weathering with pastels I could realise the result.

Hi Mikkel, I think all the complements are already given. I loved reading your story with those beautiful pictures.

Have to learn to look more often to my notifications on the RM web. I almost missed your entry.

Interesting discussion. Because you have made any decisions about the length of your branch line this could also be a solution. I quote form the book about the Fairford Branch pag. 91: 'Since this was the principal intermediate station on the branch, water columns were situated  on both platforms, and all trains paused here to take water.' The water tower was situated at the other side of the bridge. 

From your description it could also be an end station:" In my  imagination at the other side of the road bridge lies Sherton Abbas's engine shed, turntable, water tower and ash pit." In that cause a small engine shed with water tower could also be a possibility at the end of the sidings. Tetbury engine shed could be a possibility in my opinion.

I agree with you a water supply for your loco's would be a great operational addition.

Lovely addition to the centre of your layout. Gives it even more depth. 

Also like the rabbits with their holes. They really can say now: "Rabbit underground, rabbit safe and sound.”  from Richard Adams, Watership Down.

They really will have to do that with trains are visiting the station.