Job's Modelling

I agree with Mike. Nice to see an overview of your excellent individual build scenes. If your audience is as positive critical as mine, you will get a great layout. Job

Searching for the story behind a scene is almost as interesting as finding information about the modeling aspect. It inspired me to read more English books ( literature) (translated in Dutch) find some background information about persons I can use. That also gives information for creating a convincing scene.

Thanks for the compliment Mike.

I have one large Word document with a summery of every planned diorama. I'm now making a temporarily design for each diorama, to create a convincing story for Northall. In this way I try to create a story for its inhabitants. I also saved all my Northall Gazette's. Your question about the bollard helped me to create the story for the small accident I wrote in last weeks entree: Street Signs. In this way every thing gets its historical place. Thanks for the compliment. I did put all the textures I wanted to use in one file in Publisher. So I could see if the colors were going well together. Using a picture of a real door helped to create the not overdone end result. Hope you will receive your post one of these days.

First some background information obtained from Edward Grimble : “The company Grimble & Son Ltd is started in 1886 by John Grimble. He was mentioned as a carpenter in the St. James, Northall, Parish register. John Grimble started the company at his address at Orchard Road, where he had a workplace and did carpenters work for the local community. These works could vary from trimming a cart up to making a shed. His company grow out to a building contractors and merchants firm. He opened a warehouse at Anchor Street (now Dock Road) in 1897. Charles Grimble and his brother Frederick took over the firm in 1927. In 1955 his brother Frederick is leaving the firm. Charles son Edward is joining the firm and the firm’s name is from that time on: Grimble & Son Ltd. In 1959 they decided to build a new warehouse to have better access with road goods vehicles. The warehouse at Dock Road is now still in use for storage but will be closed when the new warehouse is totally finished. The company is at present involved by the renovation of Northall’s second war damage.” Model: The building is built in my useable way. Using a picture as a reference and searching for textures on the internet. Creating the textures in Publisher, save them as PDF and printing on the highest quality. Brickwork is from Scalescenes. The warehouse needs absolute some weathering and a roof. I’m considering some metal roofing. Now I have finished all the fronts and having received my missing figure from Dart Casting I can start finishing the interior of the warehouse. I also can go on with finishing the road in front of the warehouses. Regards, Job

Clever models has a nice container office as a card free download. If you want to use it, download the O scale version and reduce that to OO scale (65%). I like your layout,

I like the way you realized this very nice ghost sign.

Thanks for your nice comment. I'm now painting some bollards and figures. Think the scene will improve when I have finished some weathering on the building and the pavement and added the black bollards. Pictures of the finished street scene will be published somewhere in the next couple of months.

You could give it a try to see how it works out.

The advantage is the Council decision that I'm free to chose every name I wish for my future diorama's. Even Farthing Street would be possible now. And yes some one did hit the bollard with his car. This small article I could find in archive of the Northall Gazette of Tuesday 23 December 1952: Northall Gazette, Tuesday 23 December 1952: Mr. Scott Molloy, one of Fanshaw Ltd. employees had a car accident in bad snowy weather after a Christmas party. Luckily only the bollard on the corner of Canal Street and his car had some damage. The car of Mr Molloy was brought to Jackson

After I decided to place Northall as postcode borough W16 in Greater London. I wanted to use also a personalized street name sign, approved by the Northall Council. I found a good article on internet how street name signs have to be used and designed. The most important design advices I have copied below: “Street nameplates shall be of uniform design throughout the Administrative County of London and shall be constructed as follows: (i) Of durable, non-absorbent material. (ii) The name shall be in black letters, not less than 4 inches and not more than 5 inches in height, on a white background. The appropriate postal district shall be indicated in the nameplate in signal red. The name of the local authority may be included in the nameplate at the discretion of that authority and, if included, shall also be in signal red and shall be in upper and lower case letters, the upper case letters being not more than half the height of the letters of the street name. Supplementary lettering (such as “leading to…”), less than 4 inches in height, may be included in the nameplate. Each local authority may adopt its own individual style for lettering, provided a clear and legible style of good design is used. The margin between the lettering of the street name and the edge of the nameplate shall be not less than half the height of the street name letters. Reasonable abbreviations may be used at the discretion of the local authority, e.g., “Rd” and “Gdns”. Issued by the Greater London Council and is a reprint of publication No.3781 (1952) of the London County Council “ In the same article were the sizes mentioned for the design of the signs. I used this picture as a reference. My next diorama, as I mentioned in my entree last week, will be Station Road. Here you can see the result for Station Road designed as a Northall street name sign. The font used is Albertus Medium. This font was mentioned as the most useable font to create a London street name sign. The Northall Council decided that also some streets around Northall Dock should get some new street names and street name signs: Anchor Street is now Dock Road and Canal Street is now Canal Alley. (there is still to do some work on the street, the bollard needs some painting and the building some weathering and small repairing) There is also a nice website where you can create more modern London street name signs: http://www.myfunstudio.com/designs/lss/?source=mfs. Hope this is useful for others. Regards, Job

This is also already a nice diorama, with a lot of detail.

I agree with that.

Many thanks. His diorama's are really inspirational for me. Saved the link. My favorite in the picture gallery is definitely Diorama 6 with the "Vote for Woman " ghost sign. Regards, Job

Thanks for the compliment, Snizl, You have to help me here. Tried Google but couldn't find what who you mean. Do you have some more information for me.

Hi Mikkel, I searched and listened to the song on Spottify and also read the song text. I liked it, but mostly I listen to more easy listening music when I'm modeling. The real poem 45 Mercy Street from Anne Sexton has the same tone. They remained me of some of the paintings of Hopper. But I think they express (maybe) what I try to achieve in my diorama's. The daily life struggle, wondering, hope and sometimes loneliness.

What a nice entry again. It's a pleasure to read. Kipling wrote a nice poem called Cold Iron ( our iron railways or the use of iron in common?) Gold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid -- Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade." "Good!" said the Baron, sitting in his hall, "But Iron -- Cold Iron -- is master of them all." Also all those people who earned their money working with hot and cold (track) iron.

Looking great. Nice to see some excellent card building in this section. Will the factory get some weathering? It looks very clean now.

In one of my entries the next question was asked: “Job, a serious question - do you plan these dioramas over time or just see a scene in your mind's eye in an instant?” To be honest there was no planning when I started with the building of Bridge Street. I just wanted to build a layout on which I could shuffle around with a shunting loco and some wagons. A single line from a “fiddle stage” to an industry using wagon cards and wagon bills. Because me lack of knowledge about the shunting practice of British Railways in the 1950’s I made a crucial design mistake. But Bridge Street was fun to build and for me my first steps in card modeling. Bridge Street junction Station Road with goods line in front As I described before after finishing it was covered with a plastic sheet and out of sight. After that I build Nice Street in an APA-box situating it in Northall, without any planning. Just to see if I could build a convincing diorama this way. Nice Street main scene Northall Dock is build, because some people, wanted to see something with water in my next diorama. But the above question was the impulse of some serious thinking about what do I want to build more. In this way the development of Northall will be more consistent. On internet I found I nice document from a Great London area with a description of local areas in a borough. I used those description as a starting point for the design of the Northall Diorama’s. This can be quite challenging when I have to translate this to a diorama in an APA-box. For my next diorama I made this description: Predominant Land Use: Commercial (shops under arches), shops and residential buildings Townscape: The site is bounded on by a through road and an arched railway embankment. Station Street is the main route through the area for both vehicles and pedestrians Scale and Setting: Commercial transport corridor from the east to the west. Garage. Building Types/Uniformity of age and styles: Most of the buildings are shops and residential buildings. So I made a schematic plan for my Northall Diorama’s: As you can see my next diorama will be Station Road. Situated between Bridge Street and Nice Street. This line is situated on the arches in Northall and mainly used for passenger traffic. The other line to Northall Dock is a single goods traffic line only. On Station Road there are some shops under the railway arches. I have found a nice urban social theme from the late 1950’s that I want to use. ( Sorry, I will not give that away yet.) Regards, Job PS. I have also to make some serious thoughts how to store so much diorama’s or thinking about an other solution.

Well done. I like the detailing of the buildings.