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    DAS modelling clay, a sharp scribing tool and a few mugs of tea!
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    Depth of Field the Aberdeenshire way If you are struggling to get to grips with photo-stacking, aperture-priority F-stop settings and general depth-of-field shenanigans, I can recommend picking a location that is notorious for heavy coastal fog! A white mist will happily disguise your grainy, blurred or out-of-focus areas, just blame it on the North Sea.
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    Thanks Chris! .. as it happens, I had to go down the DIY masonry route as 'Aberdeen bond' stone didn't feature on anyone's list of embossed materials!
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    I heard this from an exhibitor at a Farnham Model Railway Club exhibition, just as I was starting to strive for more realism in my models. As a rule-of-thumb, it really stuck with me. In the fulness of time, I found myself at an exhibition with a model based on a real place. You can imagine my joy when someone strode up confidently to the model and said "I already knew from a distance that was Inverurie Works" .."
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    Rodent Inspectors ..
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    The sun is out on the Fife coast Eastfield's class 29 6107 finds itself sitting on the quayside with fish traffic from the North Sea. The scene is inspired by towns on the Fife coast such as Anstruther, Crail and Cellardyke. Buildings in the background are straight copies of a terrace at Cellardyke, with local stone, painted render and pantiles contributing to the 'East Neuk of Fife' setting.
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    Walk the Talk I've been invited - I suspect out of desperation - to give a short talk at the Abingdon Exhibition on Saturday afternoon. My aim is to encourage modellers to have a go at scratch-building and add life to their buildings. I'll bring the little east coast harbourside diorama as a talking piece. If anyone is thinking of making a day of it, your company would be very welcome.
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    BR Blue Weekend Occasionally I get to dig out a small stash of early 80s BR Blue to recreate scenes from my 'youth' ..
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    .. although mine bucks the trend and can often be found sneaking away to have a bit of a snooze.
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    Some Scots enjoy doing the same about all things English.
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    I couldn't resist a scattering of border collies - my own dog insisted on it!
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    The 'Fife coast' buildings have returned home. I'm really happy with the look of them but they didn't fit with the Aberdeenshire theme on Dad's harbourside. With everything else being granite and slate, these interlopers with sandstone walls and pantile roofs looked out-of-place. They always fitted nicely behind my harbourside diorama so this is likely to be their permanent home. With commission work turning 'nautical' for a while, this will be a useful diorama.
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    One of my favourite views is glimpsing the main line from the rear of the engine shed. The dominant building in this view is the sand-kiln, supplying locomotive crews with dry sand for sand-boxes and kindling for fire-lighting.
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    Caledonian Blues I love the Caledonian 812 that Dad picked up recently. It finds a home on 'Braeside' on the excuse that it could have been one of the locos singled out to run RCTS specials in the last days of Scottish steam. Here she is, backing onto the Braeside coaling stage. Perish anyone that tips the coal carelessly, spoiling her pristine appearance in a cloud of coal ash.
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    Et voilà! The station has been a slow-burner of a model but is finally installed It has been a joy to finally see trains underneath the platform canopies. Here, an old Hornby 101 DMU burbles away before departing for Aberdeen Aberdeen Ferryhill stalwart WD 2-8-0 90441 clanks and hisses as she slips through
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    Thank you - I just looked at the date stamp on the early photos and the station has been 14 months in the making.
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    Pressing on with the platform buildings, we now have another building ready to fit. It's going to look like a model railway if I carry on like this!
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    I feel like I should apologise!
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    Dad's main station buildings will be largely out of view but it gets plenty of detailing as it's possible to peer along its length and shove a camera between the tracks. I rustled up the canopies using sheet styrene, styrene rod and some brackets & valances from York Models but it's largely scratch-built. I've seen some lovely canopies using photo-teched components but I was happy to bash it together with styrene. It was easier to make adjustments as I went along and fettle it out of materials that fell to-hand.
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    Pointy Baronial Madness A little flourish at the top of the turrets, finishes off a long process to get these made. But I'm rather happy with the result ..
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    I haven't flattened the wheels but I have tried to tone down the tyres and vehicle
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    Looking good David, reminds me of some of the '60s photos that surfaced in the research. When it's finished, a street-lit night scene would be ace.
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