KingEdwardII Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 6 hours ago, Wickham Green too said: ditto, the locomotive Might as well have put a face on the front too... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 Interestingly, the ( fictional ) locomotive that immediately comes to mind isn't normally represented as carrying nameplates ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Crofts Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 On 06/08/2022 at 08:16, rodent279 said: How did they do the scaffolding? And the backscene, with the mist gradually covering the landscape, looks so realistic you could almost think it was a photo of the real thing........ (Also posted in the class 150-159 thread) That is one of the most clever view blockers I've ever seen. You really cannot see the cut-out where the track goes through the backscene because it's hidden behind the houses. Do we know whether forced perspective has been used, in which case it really only works from this viewpoint, or whether it works equally well from a viewpoint further to the right? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 Like the stairway who makes the kit very realistic, good in O gauge 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6990WitherslackHall Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 The tender of Black 5 5428 Eric Treacy at Grosmont sheds on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted August 19, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 19, 2022 That old Triang class 31 isn't too bad from the top! Interesting mix of old and new cars in the car park, shame the modeller hasn't weathered the left canopy though, he (she?) has done a good job on the other one. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 28 minutes ago, rodent279 said: That old Triang class 31 isn't too bad from the top! Glossy plastic roof, no exhaust stains. Straight out of the box R-T-R if ever there was!! 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted August 19, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 19, 2022 4 minutes ago, F-UnitMad said: Glossy plastic roof, no exhaust stains. Straight out of the box R-T-R if ever there was!! Maybe they've only just finished modifying the roof exhaust ports, and haven't got round to weathering it yet? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Crofts Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 (edited) I love layouts where you can look along the tracks and get a real sense of perspective. Hunstanton - Credit: Nigel Simon, Facebook EDIT: After I posted this the creator of this composite colourised image commented as follows: 'its not without flaw, it is a composition made from many images , parts of images.'.... 'it is a colourisation and sharpening flaw, unavoidable when one needs to have pixel perfect alignment and introduce colours that blend'... 'one has to choose a colour and its blending, one has to align parts of images that do not align with others by perspective, so need to be repositioned, resized, change of perspective and angle of view.... it means working to pixel accuracy else it will not combine... one could for example make it grey scale, and blur it... then sepia, it would look like a very old image then.. not an image taken yesterday.. I hope it lives on beyond me, since I made it for myself, but think its memory worth giving... so if I don't share it, it would just disappear with me.....' Nigel has also posted his composite image before colouring: Edited August 22, 2022 by Michael Crofts 17 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Michael Crofts said: I love layouts where you can look along the tracks and get a real sense of perspective. Hunstanton - Credit: Nigel Simon, Facebook The single coal wagon next to the turntable is rather a cliche and just laying all the houses straight onto a flat baseboard is very lazy. The 31 needs weathering. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 14 minutes ago, Chris M said: The single coal wagon next to the turntable is rather a cliche and just laying all the houses straight onto a flat baseboard is very lazy. The 31 needs weathering. Can't say I'd agree with you completely : the use of a goods wagon for the coal rather than an Airtix dia.1/108 is rather less of a cliche - and they have staggered the heights of the left hand terrace ............ is that the same Triang 31 as in the previous post ? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 That isn't a Triang 31 - though it could be the TT 30 - as it is one of the 1st batch of 20. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
InconyBlue Posted August 24, 2022 Share Posted August 24, 2022 (edited) The seven plank coal wagon, was often at those buffers or near the turntable, the image is real, from an actual photo of it there, remarkable really is the point lamp assembly beside it, also there, not imagined or contrived.. its a type that turns horizontally, hence the disc was all red.. no white line marker... when it turns the disc faces the wagon and the lamp faces the line.. it is very early, probably a GER remnant.. for it still to be there, though maybe no longer in operation, is special to see, everything you see in the image is factual, as true as the images ( two core images and maybe four or five more image parts.) used to make it. its not a layout, its real photographs of the view composed together. Edited August 24, 2022 by InconyBlue 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted August 24, 2022 Share Posted August 24, 2022 1 hour ago, InconyBlue said: The seven plank coal wagon, was often at those buffers ... Difficult to tell from this angle, but I can't see any hinge bar at the far end and it looks too low to be a 1923-type mineral wagon - possibly six planks rather than five so likely to be an L.N.E.R. Open Goods. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted August 24, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 24, 2022 On 22/08/2022 at 20:03, Chris M said: just laying all the houses straight onto a flat baseboard is very lazy. They've used the low relief terraced houses up against the plain backscene to great effect - although you can see the joins in the backscene. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 23 hours ago, InconyBlue said: its not a layout, its real photographs of the view composed together. Well done Sherlock. 🙄👍👌 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 Elementary, my dear Watson - we are led to believe that the image is real, from an actual photo. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Crofts Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 Posted by Andy Kirkham. https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/165080-interesting-and-inspiring-photos-from-flickr/?do=findComment&comment=4911151 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted August 26, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 26, 2022 19 minutes ago, Michael Crofts said: Posted by Andy Kirkham. https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/165080-interesting-and-inspiring-photos-from-flickr/?do=findComment&comment=4911151 The bus on the bridge is a bit hackneyed now. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 Nah - it would be a red one in Hackney ! 🤭 1 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted August 26, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 26, 2022 11 hours ago, PhilJ W said: The bus on the bridge is a bit hackneyed now. At least they put a bus stop there to justify a stationary bus. I think the fiddle yard might be a bit short, as the class 37 isn't fully hidden... 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 2 minutes ago, Davexoc said: At least they put a bus stop there to justify a stationary bus. I think the fiddle yard might be a bit short, as the class 37 isn't fully hidden... Not sure the backscene quite works, either - low horizon, looking over rooftops, right next to a tall low relief building..?? 🤔🙄 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 (edited) 12 hours ago, PhilJ W said: The bus on the bridge is a bit hackneyed now. Substitute a taxicab, then. Edited August 26, 2022 by pH 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 Beautiful illustrated track plan for a roundy-roundy, with an interesting theme: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/810869/ 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB-AU Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 42 minutes ago, pH said: Beautiful illustrated track plan for a roundy-roundy, with an interesting theme: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/810869/ That's obviously a Linn Westcott layout! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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