Jaz

and the wood clad stuff I think would suit a sea side town, so Port Lynn could work......must go check out Port Wynn on Doc Martin........

watch out lady? coming thruuuuuuu........I want it too!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK....no laughing.....no dying of shock.....AV does occasionally run the odd train.....it does!!!!!! Honest......... there's not much modelling tho.....the train, the buildings, the vehicles all bought in and plonked down.....the only thing modelled is the tree .......but there is a loco......rub your your eyes.....check it out....... The Flying Scotsman 103 in wartime black.....no touch ups .......just pristine from the box.

schools class St Pauls.30909......smug face...... 1464 Kidwelly Castle 4098 1461 1462 now if I am boring you please say ;p. Else I can pull more out of the archives to show that an occasional train does fly round.........

as is this (the old heartbeat now ripped out) Flying Scotsman 103 in wartime black 1468 ignore the deep black smoke.....no no not dementors..........sssshhhhh....everthing is normal here...... 1465 what do you mean there's a body on the floor.....she must have tripped.....or is she singing? Ol' Lang syne????????...... pay attention!!!!!! There's a train!!!!!!!!1

no crashes, no bashes, no flashes or tricks, the light and the dust......and perhaps a touch of magic................................. seriously she's as good as when she came out of the box.

so.....what a bout this? 1390 okay okay I concede no more Hogwarts....(for now.....) The old Heartbeat now ripped out and replaced..... 0965

People often ask for trains.....I no understand this desire for those strange little wheeled items.......;p but having produced no new work for days....i though....okay I take loads of pictures......the odd train must be in them......some will of course be from a very much earlier version of AV,and the modelling etc will be rathe iffy. some picture will have been posted previously the number will give that away.....BUT if trains is what you like........trains is what you will have..... awwwww......what do you mean it's not a train.....theres a loco and coaches.....;p 1822 how a bout this? 1824 look look....thats not dust... ....thats modelling dust.....smoke from the chimney....... 1826

LOL well you can do the dirty work and I'll sit back and watch, as I have a good number of those terrace buildings for when I come to do our mining area. Theres the low relief, the flat front, and the bay windowed ones, and some corner shops too......so get a move on so I can see how it goes .......;p a very early 2011 probably part of AV before we moved onto something else. 3989terraces we were never happy with the mines position, and much of it ended up reboxed.

Glad to see the day out with the grandson turned out so well, and thank you for the pictures.

Hopefully you'll share with us your painting of these, they look really interesting. The only thing I notice is they appear to be all the same height. But men go from 5ft to 6'6". The detail looks nice though....

Read the notes careful, it recommends NOT leaving the stuff on for two long, and i tend to err on the side of caution.

It certainly looks the business. Well sourced.

I have noticed your affinity for the Japanese style strokes, and they certainly seem to have that ethos. Some of their work tends to have an almost supernatural work. I adore Japanese prints, especially those on antique kimonos. London museums have a great selection. I spent many many hours down in the bowels of the Victoria and Albert museum seeing stuff that rarely if ever goes on display. My college arranged access as I as very interested in Wayang Puppetry. A wide and complex subject, which is practiced quite differently in different parts of the orient. Many had men watching the coloured puppets from the front, whilst the women sat behind and only saw the shadows.Thee is a culture for flat puppets and 3D ones, and the Gods differ slightly from area to area thought they mostly follow the same ethos. The princes etc tend to have bowed modest heads, whilst the monsters have big florid and fat bodies faces often in green or red. It is also tied tightly to their vision of their religion.

sable was a species of marten usable sourced from Russia where the cold makes for a thicker coat...similar to a ferret. Sables were smuggled out of Russia in order to make Sable coats. I think there has been various films a bout the subject. There are various 'real' hair from different animals that are considered to be superior. Although there are over lapping opinions over the superiority of the different products. Usually heavily influenced by how good a performance the better artists can achieve with those products. Real hair is not smooth when seen microscopically, and there fore effects the amount of paint it holds. The artificial stuff is also considered superior in some circles. Different types of artist wanting different things. But in the main, the sable is still seen as a superior product across the board. Though some people believe different brushes work better with different based products e.g. gouache, oil, water, etc etc as well as 'natural' colours or 'artificial' ones. It is my opinion that people tend to have a distinct preference for the product they learnt on, and many still prefer those products even after they have sourced 'superior' ones. It is indeed horses for courses. Many people, also hope, that using a superior product will fine tune their own skills. I tend to go for the Rolf Harris technique, get as big a brush as possible and slap it on as fast as possible.......LOL.

I do like them, I do own some fine brushes, but I am at heart a cheapskate....and am always looking for ways to get an equally worthy effect with out paying through the nose for them.......LOL. I am all about least input, maximum effect......At college I was trained by a theatre designer, and she was all about you do the work, make people fill in the detail, then they finish the show and don't store or pack or look after you work ......they throw your work in the bin!!!!!!! So it is all smoke and magic mirrors........ It is why I like 'real' light effects that are dusky....YOUR brain does the work.....saving me the effort........

I alo have trouble cutting Wills Sheets. Some clever (inc Sasquatch) said ..... drill in side the shape you want to remove. then saw or cut as best you can, then file carefully to as neat a finish as you can manage. And some clever even manage to make the inside look really good too........smartarses......HEHE................... . The more ideas you look at to model something, the more likely you are to find a way that suits you. I notice different people do use different techniques and come out with very worthy results. The trick is to find a 'good' way that you like and can replicate.

I do and frequent them often for really useful storage boxes etc, as well as paints and brushes. I prefer and like brushes especially small ones. BUT a micro brush is excellent for specific tasks 1.you can JUST dab the end leaving a small amount of paint 2. they get into small awkward spots usually (not always) avoiding painting things you do not want to paint by accident 3. The end has a sightly bendable neck allowing you some extra technique and control. A micro brush can in no way replace an actual brush, they require a different technique it is like painting with a sponge floor mop BUT in miniature. You can easily control the amount of paint available on the end, by moving paint to a flat surface force and carefully dabbing and collecting the right amount of paint. Brushes are better for larger pieces of work, and short brushes have more control over smaller details.The paint often has 'run up' the bristles putting more paint onto the brush than you need, this does not happen with micro brushes as you can control minute quantities of paint much more easily. PLUS often my longer thinner brushes often become shorter thinner brushes, some times with angles, as I use them LOL. I wear out brushes at a fast rate, and like the fact I believe i get much more for my money with a micro brush as so far I have pulled the foam off two ends, but in a years page have yet to wear one out. A micro brush cannot lay on delicate paint like a brush, it lacks the finesse, but it is good for small dabbing. and at this scale it makes them vey useful. I use the fine rather than the bigger ones where a brush is often much better, Some day I will do a video of how I do this, BUT my voice is high pitched and can sound squeaky.....in my head I have a nice mellow voice....and every time I hear it recorded it makes me wince LOL....and thus I avoid it.... David who has stayed can probably confirm if I get excited and shout at the dogs my voice could break glass........if I had any control over it I would have made a brilliant opera singer.......incredibly few people can reach the high note my vocal cords are capable of.......and the vast majority of them are probably very happy they can't.....and wish on occasion that I couldn't either......ROFL.

some black 3987 rhim deer are not high in numbers, and I doubt you'll see any pipes carved from their horns. ...!!! and I suspect you would be hard to spot them in the wild...so not be able to kill them for the horn ....phew...... especially in the twilight.... 3988 ........and LOL I know it never occurred to either of you.....just it fit in with the joke ROFL.....

Oh deer...oh deer....oh deer....... no stalker..... but I have an i...deer I can't actually decide which deer it is and suspect it is a Rhim Gazelle. Having those straight horns at that angle seems hard to decide.....perhaps the plastic model can't hold the horns to the initially conceived shape 3984 some white...some ochre 3985 some grey 3986

Apologies for the delay in responding. There is nothing serious behind this. However, a few events both on and off forum left me wanting to reflect on how i spend my time in general. I have had a cold/the flu which has made me generally under the weather. and a small scare with my father, again nothing serious.Simultaneously there was a suggestion that our viewing figures may have been subjected to external interference, and as such I wanted to see how the figures clocked up without our input. The viewing figures while not important, in themselves, do give us some limited feedback on whether I am talking about a subject that interests people - or not - and we often change from subject to subject based upon on how both views and responses change. . i.e. boring subject....move on! So for me, the suggestion that they may not be correct over the last weekend left me a little uncertain of where to go from there.As It was suggested that our viewing figures had been inflated over that weekend. With the added distraction of the non rmweb events we decided it was best to sleep on it for a number of days, see how the land lies, and how we feel about it, and meantime monitor the situation, while allowing time for our thoughts to settle, and our non RM challenges to be sorted. At this time, those things are still not one hundred percent clear, but rather than leave people to worry, or for Chinese whispers to start, I am posting to let you know there is nothing seriously wrong. But I am not intending to post too much in the next few days. I don't want this to be a debating point. There is no need for sympathy cards or White Knights....LOL......as there are no Dragons here to slay. Thank you for your concern. Whilst welcome, you don't need to worry.

the various safari picturess o far 3976 oil processors in the distance 3977 3978 OMG Sasquatch!!!! 3979 a case of the mountain and the deep blue sea 3981 not enough shadow at the front makes the Giraffe look a lot less believable 3982

Flamingos are pink because of all the shrimp they eat. Why some otriches are very pink? Lord only knows. 3960 I painted it black, then added white while still white to get the black grey variance. The pink will have a translucent white over it. The head is not a good shape and too small to adjust, filing usually leaves a feathery finish which would be in appropriate ..I will probably always pose it facing away. 3961 the initial black detailing was also to thick so I had to go back in a repaint some of it wit white so it was just a hint of colour 3964 this is not a good picture...i'll take one on the layout later 3972 I was surprised by the pinkness as well because the model in normal light appears much whiter now.

I suspect at least half those are from your last visit...... Now you know why Kal is keen to put a layout in the garage...LOL... (FYI it is where he does mot of his smoking) It even has a red cloth chesterfield sofa out there........

This was painted back in the 60s, and has stood the test of time......but it does not stop it being rather shiny 3965 a dull grey, and some mud 3966 3967 Rhinos tend to root, roll, run through mud and water making them somewhat filthy 3968 this rhino seems big actually not that large, but has full grown horns, there are pigmy rhinos and hippos i believe 3969