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  1. 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
  2. Job's Modelling
    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.
  3. Job's Modelling
    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
  4. Job's Modelling
    I started Nice Street (Urban Scene) as a diorama.
    With a new build model and some models from Bridge Street I made a muck up in the APA Box
     

     
    Non of these models was used on Nice Street.
     
    During building the diorama I start to do more research about how to build a diorama. I already accepted the rule of thirds for the planning.
     
    Also read some interesting things about how to design an urban scene.
     
    Most information about building a diorama is to be found in other modeling diciplines. Especially the information from Sheperds Paine was of great use for my.
     
    One of the things I noticed was that when I came in to the room where the diorama is standing you can see the whole scene at once. The viaduct and the railway arches where the first things that take the attention. In this way the viewer will loose his attention in a short time, without seeing the details on which I spend a lot of attention.
     
    I’m fascinated in the way Sheperd’s Paine discripes the realisation of a black box.
    So I dedided to give that a try. I made a tryout and did some experiment with the viewing opening. These resulted in the final desing. With this viewing opening it is possible to see the whole diorama, when you look around.

     
    By my art supplier I found black presentation card, suitable to create the front of my black box.
    I have to add some glass behind the opening. Just from a cheap photo frame.
    This is the way it looks when you are looking to the central scene.
     

     
    regards,
    Job
  5. Job's Modelling
    This time I use a different approach for modelling a Scalescenes model.
     
     
    I printed the PDF’s on fine art paper. In this case Lana Dessin 150 gsm. Beneath a product description:
    “A perfect paper with light grain which makes every stroke of your pencil a real pleasure. Gelatine and surface bonded, it makes gluing and retouching operations so much easier to perform and the various weights available mean that you can choose the paper which best suits your own needs.
    Acid free and age resistant.”
     

     
    In the past I mostly used PRITT glue. After I received some advices I searches for a more PH neutral glue. The glue that fitted my wishes was a bookbinding glue. I have to bring it up with a small brush. And I use a rubber roller to get things flat. I let dry every piece I glued for 24 for hours.
     

     
    For cutting I followed the advice of a professional model maker and used a scalpel. He also gave another useful tip that I used. The first cut is no more than a guiding line for cutting. After the first line I cut the lines slowly down to get a good result.
     
    Have a look at the blog of David Neat: http://davidneat.wordpress.com/
     

     
    Below the first picture of the modelling progress of the factory.
     

     
    To be continued.
     
    Regards,
    Job
  6. Job's Modelling
    I have finished my Sunday diorama’s and Monday is washing day.
    So my next diorama has to give an impression of the Monday washing day.
     
    Just a row of back yard with washing lines could do the job.

     
    The other possibility is washing lines crossing the street.

     
    But I wanted use my Austin K8 for a delivery scene. Then I published an entry in the road vehicle group on the RM web. I wanted some information about the
    NCB electric van of the British Railways. After this I realized the Austin K8 was stationed in the Southern Region and most of my other vans in the Midlands Region.
     
    Northall is situated in the Western Region. So I made a big decision. Replace Northall to the Midlands Region was an option. The other possibility was to build up a British Railways carpark for the Western Region.
     
    I also played with the idea to build a bus scene in the future. I love those London transport Country Buses. This one has a great British Railways advert.
     

     
    Once a year we clean up our house. Looking for what you use and what we don’t use. After some thoughts I decided to sell my trains and by some additional London Transport Country buses, Western Region British Railways road vans and other 1959 based cars.
     
    Until there is a Western Region based Austin K8, I will use a Scammel Mechanical Horse three wheel or a Morris J van instead.
     
    I had designed a diorama but I want to try something different. So please have some patience. I have already an idea. But some additional information could help me out.
     
    So can anyone provide me additional information about bag sac washing in the 1950’s?
     
    Kind regards,
    Job
  7. Job's Modelling
    I still have to finish the Hansom cab…. But I think I will use something else on the diorama. Believe that the Hansom cab will be to large for this diorama. Thinking of using a handcart and a boy delivering a Christmas gift. In that time, it was already possible to buy things from a mail order company, for instance from the Empire Stores, which then were send to the costumer by rail as a parcel. Only the way we order, and deliver is changed ….
     
    But first there must be a cobbled road to put the cart on. I also made the base from Petite Properties. Painted the base black. For the cobbled road I use the sheets from In the Greenwood. Made the road to the right size using a craft knife. Then I cleaned them first with an MDF cleaning pad. I gave it a coat with Gesso. After this was dried the whole street had a coat of Vallejo Oiled Earth.
     

     
    Next step was painting the cobblestones individually. I used base colour from the Citadel range. In this case Mechanicus Standard Grey.
     

     
    After that I painted the space between the stones with a 50/50 mixture of Vallejo Light Sienna and Natural Umber mixed with Pigment binder. I let this dry for 24 hours.
     
    Next job was painting individual stones in groups of six with layer colours in grey tone. I used the following colours: from Citadel Administration grey and from AK paints Dry light mud. I mixed them in several shades.
    After painting the setts, I gave every individual stone a coat of Oiled Earth from Vallejo to tone down the surface.

     

    I used a Wargaming and Facebook modelling tutorial from Internet as a guide. Used the colours I had. But every time the result will be different even if you use the same colours again.
    I'm curious about your opinion about this one.
     
    Next job will be painting the pavement with its granite kerbs.
     
    Kind regards,
    Job
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