Job's Modelling

Today I finished the painting and weathering of my first British Railway Road Service wagon. Used just for 4 acrylic paint colors for painting the loading: raw sienna, burnt umber, ultramarine and lemon yellow . Also used some metal gun and black paint and fineliners for detailing the load. Further weathering was done through dry brushing with: dirt grey paint and a chalk pastel mixture of: black, brown and white (my general weathering mixture) Below some picture of the result Hope you like the result. Loaded Scammel Scarab Scammel Scarab Western Region Placed in the diorama. Regards, Job

I had some days off. So I decided to write the introduction to the Northall Gazette. In the Northall Gazette articles I will try to give some background information to the diorama's. I see my diorama's as three dimensional pictures. So every person, car & building on the diorama is "real" and has his purpose for that moment. I will publish the Gazette pages as a picture. If you also prefer an PDF that posible too. And also a picture of the Eastern Pub in full color out the Society's Archive. Sadly enough the pub is gone, so the local costumers have to get their pint somewhere else. Regards, Job

Like the atmosphere and a nice the tram.

You can varnish your inkjet prints with Aquarel Varnish. I use one from Talens, because this is easy available in the Netherlands. I use this to protect my card build models which are made from Scalescene kits and papers. I personally prefer inkjet prints.

Like the animation ! Looks like a micro layout.

Thanks for the comments. Much appreciated. Have a lot of ideas for the coming time. I have read the articles about 'Inkermann Street'. This is indeed a great layout. The only problem for me is magazines collect to must dust for me, so I have limited space for books and magazines. Gladly internet is 'dust' free. The picture is from Bridge Street, now gone,

This blog records the development of diorama’s of Northall a fictional neighbourhood in a large industrial city in England. The time setting is in the late 1950’s. The switching point to the modern society with live in now. The diorama’s will all have a relation to British Railway practice in Northall . All diorama's will be build in APA boxes as a black box. The idea of building Northall came when I build Bridge Street. Unfortunately not build in a APA box and the victim of the clearance program of the Northall Governance. Urban Scene is the first diorama build in this way, but not yet finished completely. To build the diorama's I developed my own design rules using information from different sources in the modelling world. I like to look out of the box. Here is a little Northall history: From 1850 on , sleepy, rural Northall has been enveloped by the expanding metropolis. Railway and canal construction brought further expansion. Growth continued until the Second World War, by which time Northall was completely built up. Older industries all closed in the 1950's and 1960's. In 1954 Northall had three distinct areas. In the north were houses from the 1930’s and factories. Immediately south of the railway were streets of terraces dating from c. 1870-1920. Farther south lay the old town, with the dock area. The railway line is situated on 29.921 feet above the surrounding streets.

Looking forward to see the result of this effort.

I hope you realize you have convinced me not to use you concept of changing the buildings on my Urban Scene diorama. After showing my at home "critical" partner ( in many ways) my layout design for Northall Dock and telling her how easy it would be to put this one back in time, she became enthusiastic. How about a GWR Ale wagon with a horse and leader for shunting on the quay. Or will I also leave this one in the late 1950's.

How about using something totally different like stockings or bandage. If they have the right size you can try to make them stiff and give them the right color. I don't know of what material they were made in GWR coaches but in the Netherlands those old coaches had luggage racks from textile materials (rope?)

I like your photoshopped picture. Did remind my of drawings and some pictures of Minehead in that excellent book about The Minehead Branch from Ian Coleby. There is also a nice drawing of a "small' stable block.

I believe Gloucester was both LMS and GWR. So this will give you a good excuse to put some LMS wagons on your sidings.

Hi Mikkel, The name "George Inn" is very common. And I think it could be nice if we build it both. You can build it in a 1906 - 1907 setting, and I in a 1950's Urban setting. I just took a Victorian pub name linked to Charles Dickens, It has also a railway linked history: "The George Inn is the last remaining galleried coaching inn in London and is now protected by the National Trust. It still functions as a pub and restaurant and even as a stage set for Shakespeare's plays. Unfortunately, only the south side remains, the rest of the inn having been demolished for the construction of warehouses by the Great Northern Railway. It is located in a cobbled courtyard just off of Borough High Street, London."

Hi Mikkel, Oh I like that song. Could be in anytime. Would contract those guys for the "George Inn" in Farthing. (Charles Dickens used The George Inn as the setting for a few the scenes in his novels, and apparently Shakespeare himself acted in the courtyard.). By the way: lovely set of coaches. I like to see a scene with them on in your station. Regards, Job

Nice contradiction between the snapshot present and the impressionist Edwardian pictures. Micro layouts are also very useful to capture a small scene and to show your models on photographic pictures. Keep daydreaming! Regards, Job

Hello Mikkel, Maybe you can build several parts of the Gloucester Goods Yard plan. I was thinking of: - a coal siding: empty and full coal wagons for the local coal merchants - cattle traffic wit a large cattle pence - the biscuit factory - exchange sidings (shunting puzzle) There was also LLANTHONY RAILWAY YARD. You can find a lot of information about this one here www.gsia.org.uk/reprints/2005/gi200519.pdf I also like the Brenford Dock. (my next diorama will be something with water. At this moment I think about a canalside diorama) Regards, Job

Although I like the large concept of Glouchester it may be to big for your purpose. I found a 1914 map showing Hockley's extensive goods yard and shed facilities for the Soho Canal Branch on the internet. http://warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrhd1664.htm Think there are a lot of possibilities here. Also for creating a nice scene. There are a lot of pictures to find on this one at http://warwickshirerailways.com (can't get the link working, sorry) Hope that I don't disturb your plans for The Farthing Sidings by sending this one. Regards, Job