Sasquatch

I've been there isn't ain't that in south sarf London somewhere? Edited for lack of a true shandy swillin southern accent!

Jaz, the houses in the village are made from wills products the post office is a wills craftsman kit but made using different stonework than supplied with it. Honeydukes was inspired by Dave "Tetleys" Shakespeare's rotten row building. Well the back of it anyway. The church is the discontinued Hornby kit. I should get a super macro shot of the Ford Anglia to show Potter and Weasley huh? It's a damp foggy day so I won't be doing any outside photography today. Pity as I want to get a coulpe more pics of that abbey. Regards Shaun.

Tony. You really need to stop worrying for not having anything to show. I'm sure that I speak for everybody on here when I say that you're one of the nicest blokes on here and we all highly value your input. Further more what use is RMweb if there's no room for those who are struggling with modeling matters and health. This image of Newcastle in the 50s is wonderful. There's details in them there working class houses which shout volumes! I grew up with my gran and granddad in a 50s built terrace and remember it well. Gran would polish her brass door knocker weekly and get granddad to paint the door step brick red at least twice a year. The back door was never locked so that tradesmen such as the coal man, milk man or bin men had access to the side room. There weren't any trains for miles so it was a very clean housing estate. Our house was new of course but my uncles in the center of Brighton still had multi pane windows and the rendering was in a poor state! It's all this kind of stuff is that makes the atmosphere on a layout. It's a bygone age of soot! I did most of my travelling around Great Britain in the 1990s and haven't seen much of the north at all. Our scooter club was great friends with a club from the west riding, I particularly loved their accents and had a real feel for the place much different from that of the seagull infested south. It's the working class industrial north which I aim to capture in model form as it is just the right place for model trains! So I'm always grateful for pics such as these! Regards Shaun.

The pic I worked from.

Here are a couple of quick pics of that mill in Keighley that I'm working on.

Your camera work is coming along nicely mate. I picked up a tip about waving a lamp around while making the exposure on your thread here somewhere and it really does the trick. SWMBO has made me take Goathland all apart so as to get on decorating our new front room, see's such a spoil sport! Well at least I got some pics up. Your work is a great inspiration to me. Regards Shaun.

Clay. Happy Thanks Giving to you mate. Don't eat too much! Having had to reframe from exhibiting locally this weekend I may try to contact the guys who organize the Eugene show and ask if they'll have Goathland next year. Other than that if yoy are ever in southern Oregon PM me as you would be welcome to visit! Here's my new 7F running light engine on that viaduct.

Markus. Here are some more village pictures I grabbed quickly this morning. Starting with those old fogies from Last Of The Summer Wine.

Bodgit (Andrew P.). Yes Holmfirth, there's the trio from last of the summer wine knocking about here somewhere. I need to get a pic of those three before it gets dismantled.

Jason (sandside) I have been on Google earth exploring various towns around the west riding but Keighley just draws me in. I want to make a model of the Globe Inn the other side of that bridge and the derelict mill. A few short terraces ending halfway up a steep hill (so West Riding) and the mill across from the station which is almost finished!! The way that the railways of both sides of the Pennines weave their way in and out, up and down, over and under each other makes for the best settings for model trains. Thanks for the offer of photographs if your out and about and see some of this inspirational stuff by all means take some pics and post them. I'm sure you're far too busy to make a special trip though! But thankyou for your kind offer Regards Shaun.

Reply quoting post isn't working either now. ??????? What's up with that. Couldn't add the pics to my posts so posted them separately to include captions!!! Beginning to think it's RMweb and not my computer.

Thanks Bodgit. Think 3D and go for open frame boards maybe

Yes Jason me too. It was fun to create, putting the buildings in various configurations until I was happy. The original Metcalfe viaduct got binned as it just wouldn't fit. Next up will be a mill towne like your Bacup. I have been building factories, warehouses and mills like a mad man for about 4 years and in the spring will hopefully be ready to do the same as the village but on a much bigger scale... I'm thinking Keighley Halifax with more than one railway company. Regards Shaun

Well spotted Markus! Your prize is to choose what you would like to see a pic of. Some close up or favorite part of the layout maybe.

There's a booby prize for the first person to spot the fawn in these next four images. ??????

This one's just real cool. DMU services heading in both directions with class 108 demonstrating the nice cant to good effect.

I can hardly wait to get on with the layout renovation as the repainted water tower looks great! Somehow got lucky with the light and camera settings here.

Oh hi Jaz, you're up with the larks? It's me who's a sad old git BTW for spending 20 minutes setting up that daft class four pic! It doesn't look anything like the real picture. D5061 on the bridge........ With an admirer from the Channel islands.

What a sad old git! Anyway.....A.H.Peppercorn standing in for Tornado in this shot with the teak rake.

Moving on to the non-fictitious end of the layout we find a 4MT departing with the Mk1 stock. The second pic is something I have tried to copy from a real life image.

Looks like this has to be done in sections. (Yawn). Its a quiet Sunday morning on the Yorkshire layout. The mods from heartbeat are getting a few down in the Birch Hall Inn for lunch and the goat always comes home before dark.

Our internet has slowed down and this is going to take all night. It is very nice to have the layouts out of storage. With a little help from SWMBO I have assembled the main 3 boards in the living room to bring you some long over due images. The lighting was very bad! Enjoy. Remember to click on the images . Here's Bachmann V2 60860 Durham School on the viaduct. This livery on the V2 looks the dogs dodahs!

This week the layouts have ben retrieved from storage so I might put Goathland together for a quick photo session now that I've mastered the manual settings on my camera. A few days rest is needed from all the renovation work as I've worn myself out and need to recharge my batteries. This photo oppertunity seems like a nice relaxing way to spend the afternoon. Let's see how this pans out. Sasquatch. A rather excited one at that!

Me too! ....Haven't had a sticky bun in years.