I'm psychic, you see...Ah yes Peter. Yet again you knew that I had something to say!
(Well that's what I think people say behind my back )
That's a really nice scene you've got there. How big is it approximately? Looks quite large but that may just be a modeller's trick!Not too much actually, just spent yesterday evening fencing off the farmland from the unwanted neighbours and putting a piece of rusty farm machinery in the gateway with an unwelcoming sign:
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HahaHe really doesn’t like the people with the old caravan...
(Actually I don’t know if you remember but the old rusty bailer is positioned over the baseboard joint which I think was your suggestion?)
I think I suggested a tractor at some point, but even if I didn't, I expect half the profits made from when that thing's sold at auction (or to the scrapyard, either or)
Apologies if you've already mentioned it, but how have you got those roads like that? I assume the greenery is just static grass and other such materials, but how's the road surface done?
Again - very nice! That first shot, looking down onto Eggishford, looks brilliant. The signs add loads to the scene, and the perspective makes the hill look bigger than I think it is?
I printed off a selection of road signs ages ago, with the intention of getting them onto the layout shortly afterwards, but I ran out of things to make the posts out of and gave up. How have you managed to make the posts for those?
It's amazing how something so small can be made to look so big and lifelike with some good camera trickery. You can just imagine the bus trundling along, full of (probably disgruntled) passengers, all wishing they'd let the train take the strain, etc....Quite like this photo with the bus. I get just as much enjoyment out of modelling the roads as I do the railway really.
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I was having a conversation with someone about that sort of sign the other day, and I realised that there's loads of modelling potential in even something as small as that. At Kingham, there are three or four signs, all saying the same thing, at the London end of Platform 1 - one of them says "Do not cross the line (except by means of the footbridge)", another says "Do not pass this point", and I think another is a sign about trespassing on the line. It's also interesting how the first type of sign seems to have been used by almost every railway company since the day dot - the GWR certainly made signs with that wording in the steam era.
-Peter