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There's not an angry enough button!!!

Or dump it somewhere/anywhere which is common practice today! Slightly off topic, we have a country park just next to my house, the park has hand carved animals here and there, one area has a badger about four feet long and a stoat two feet high standing on a tree trunk, the heads have just been chopped off

Naaah! Just Photoshop the flats, dead realistic that way and a lot easier

I always use the lowest ISO to minimise grain, I also focus stack when needed.

So, what has changed?

New camera settings?

Yes, I agree, modelling has to be seen for what it is, but as I said "Just a bit of fun" When I add these pictures to Pen Y Bryn I alway post the original model shots.

Pen Y Bryn.

Looks good, I use sampled real smoke/steam and then brushes etc to add to, the trick with some shots is to get the smoke behind buildings, lamp posts and under bridges etc

The biggest problem when adding smoke and steam is knowing when to stop as it becomes addictive, sometimes less is more and some fantastic effects can be added, of course we are getting away from real modelling but as I said with my caption in the PS picture, it's just a bit of fun and adds that extra bit of missing realism

Photoshop

Just a bit of fun

That's the trouble with backscenes as they are taken from just one angle and we take shots from every angle

Looking good, just a suggestion, stretch the distant sidings to the right of the signals.

Lovely shot, good composition

Here's a few old shots of the station.

I've been through all of this, lost all our fish including large Koi. It started with a garden centre guy recommending one of those plastic herons, "herons are territorial and won't go on another herons patch"...exept, one morning we saw a real heron talking to the plastic one! The next step was to fit 18" rods around the pool and fishing gut so that the heron couldn't walk into the pool, the next attempt was to fit sensors and a loud bell, only to find one morning that the bell was ringing and the heron was in the pool. Criss cross nylon was tried like yours...no good, the best method is mesh, this works a treat except, there was a tiny hole where the mesh wasn't pulled right at one end of the pond and under some bushes, the sod got in there and took all the fish! Today, the pond is no more, it's a lawn

About time someone swept that platform

i don't know the area, all I did was line up the engine sheds with yours, reduce them to approximately the same size, the picture was too short so it was stretched to size and extra sky added above.

For research purpose only Now this is the backscene you need Gilbert

Another old picture, not very good quality, it was very difficult getting a camera in here I remember.

Here's some very old pictures, fifteen years or so!

Thanks Andy...appreciated

On the up line.

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