RMweb Premium John Besley Posted November 26, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 26, 2021 Looks like he's also mastered photo editing to add extra coaches as the express arrives 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted November 26, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 26, 2021 Silly question why were they called Bettles.... not built by Volks Works were they ... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted November 26, 2021 Author Share Posted November 26, 2021 (edited) 58 minutes ago, John Besley said: Silly question why were they called Bettles.... not built by Volks Works were they ... GWR telegraphic code for them…. Edited November 26, 2021 by KNP 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silas Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 Or maybe someone had a quiet word with the Corporal in the Squadron Leader's Photographic Reconnaissance Unit? Jon T 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 5 minutes ago, Silus said: Or maybe someone had a quiet word with the Corporal in the Squadron Leader's Photographic Reconnaissance Unit? Jon T I believe that a mug of tea and a pack of Lucky Strikes provided by the USAAF is the going rate for film processing. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Harlequin Posted November 26, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 26, 2021 @KNP Have you thought about trying to get motion blur in your express photos? With the camera and everything else stationary take two or more (stacked) shots, moving the train forwards in between. Then (after stacking) mix them together in Affinity. That should give an approximate effect of motion blur, more convincing the more shots you mix. 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted November 26, 2021 Author Share Posted November 26, 2021 22 minutes ago, Harlequin said: @KNP Have you thought about trying to get motion blur in your express photos? With the camera and everything else stationary take two or more (stacked) shots, moving the train forwards in between. Then (after stacking) mix them together in Affinity. That should give an approximate effect of motion blur, more convincing the more shots you mix. I will give it a try…. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonB Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 (edited) Will the motion blur be capable of giving the impression that the guy on the lorry reading his newspaper is turning the page? Or that there is some activity around the shed door? These and other questions ...... Can we assume that the workshop manual for apprentice Thatchers is at the Printers? Edited November 26, 2021 by DonB Text added 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted November 26, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 26, 2021 (edited) On 24/11/2021 at 22:20, MrWolf said: Work began on Britain's Chain Home radar system in 1936 and was operational by early 1938. That's something else that never comes up in a pub quiz! I could have phoned a friend/relative if it did. Here's Uncle Peter with other radar technicians in WW2. I think they may have had suspicions that the photo should not have been taken for security reasons. Edited November 26, 2021 by phil_sutters 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 Interesting photo there, I suspect that the date has something to do with the lack of secrecy, but it would still have been subject to censorship. My grandfather had a lucky escape from service because he was working on radar development from the mid 30s and throughout the war. His younger brother wasn't so lucky and spent several years as a Japanese prisoner of war. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted November 26, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 26, 2021 I remember always being given a slip that said next Thursday. So I went back to get my snaps and the chemist told me. "Come back on Thursday." "But it is Thursday". I said. To which he replied. "Yes, but not this Thursday, next Thursday. 1 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted November 27, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 27, 2021 (edited) Meanwhile back on the roof of the Creamery Edited March 30 by KNP 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponthir28 Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 How did you stay on the roof in last night storm. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welchester Posted November 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 27, 2021 19 hours ago, Gedward said: I remember always being given a slip that said next Thursday. So I went back to get my snaps and the chemist told me. "Come back on Thursday." "But it is Thursday". I said. To which he replied. "Yes, but not this Thursday, next Thursday. That, I suspect, is a northern thing. In Gloucestershire, where I grew up, this Thursday and next Thursday were interchangeable. In Staffordshire, where I live now, next Thursday is the one that comes after this Thursday. I found it confusing at first, but am used to it now. See you next Tuesday. 1 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted November 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 27, 2021 In Cornwall its dreckly 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted November 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 27, 2021 4 hours ago, Welchester said: That, I suspect, is a northern thing. In Gloucestershire, where I grew up, this Thursday and next Thursday were interchangeable. In Staffordshire, where I live now, next Thursday is the one that comes after this Thursday. I found it confusing at first, but am used to it now. See you next Tuesday. I think the only thing we can really be certain of is, next train's gone. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 5 minutes ago, Worsdell forever said: I think the only thing we can really be certain of is, next train's gone. I think that you're wasting your time! 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted November 27, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 27, 2021 And now a nice little story that will warm the cockles of your heart. For a while now a young lad called Ollie has followed Little Muddle online. My daughter is a TA at a local Primary School where Ollie attends and they where chatting some while ago about trains. My layout was mentioned and that’s when Ollie told her about his layout so the link was made, since then we have been exchanging pictures. Thursday, after school, my daughter came around for dinner with her family (Bradley included - you know the one of engine shed door fame!!!!) and said Ollie had made something for the layout and had been asked to hand me this.. How thoughtful to go to that effort so I am determined that some of the posters and signs will be added to LM in due course. I will post in the next few days what and where they are. Thank you Ollie for the kind thought. Keep up the good work and those pictures arriving, you never know one day you might have your own thread……. 6 12 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crichel Down Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 I see that the artwork shown by Kevin on this thread earlier this afternoon includes reproductions of a selection of enamel adverts. These were a colourful and attractive feature of the period railway scene (and were also seen elsewhere). However, there was a discussion on the S4 webforum in April of this year (on page 17 of the thread dealing with my own layout) here - https://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1846&start=400#p83980 about the rapid disappearance of enamel adverts from GWR stations in the mid-1930s. It seems that this resulted from the termination of the contract between the GWR and Wyman’s who had been responsible for booking and displaying these adverts on GWR stations. It seems that this type of advertising was considered obsolete, and (with one notable exception, mentioned below) reliance was thereafter placed solely on paper posters. So, for a layout based in the late 1930s (i.e. post-1935), maybe no enamel ads should be displayed (except the famous VIROL ads, which lasted into the 1950s, and seem to have disappeared in 1958). It is possible that some enamel ads may have continued to be seen on private commercial premises through simple inertia, but they seem to have been systematically removed from railway premises by 1935, being replaced by printed paper posters (which had begun to appear earlier in the 20th century). This no doubt accounts for the omission from the 1936 General Appendix to the GWR Rule Book of instructions for the display of enamel ads that had appeared in earlier editions of the Appendix, whereas detailed and prescriptive instructions for the display of enamel adverts had been included in the 1920 General Appendix. 8 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Interesting. I have noticed that pre and post WWII photographs of stations showing a distinct change in the display of enamel signs. Pre WWI, they seemed to be everywhere. The problem with them was largely that it was difficult to convey new or temporary information using them and as they were so long lasting were expensive to replace. Add to that the countryside act of 1928 which restricted their use, particularly at higher levels on buildings. The only business that really stuck to them postwar was the motor trade, for which enamel signs were produced well into the 1960s, when cheaper printed aluminium took over. Wartime scrap drives also removed a lot of iron enamel signs from sites not specifically connected with the product being advertised also. That said, I do like to see them on a layout and even now there's still a lot fixed in their original locations, despite the original owners having long disappeared or the business that had installed them doing likewise. There's also Rule#1.... 8 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted November 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 27, 2021 I can quite clearly remember in the 1940s, our local junction station, a joint GWR/LMS place, had enamel signs, a fairly selective range, Camp Coffee, Virol, Stephens Ink, come to mind, also Aston’s furnishers, bright yellow, which could appear on the risers of the footbridge stairs as well as conventional signs. 6 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted November 28, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 28, 2021 (edited) And from the farmhouse roof top.... Edited March 30 by KNP 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 13 minutes ago, KNP said: And from the farmhouse roof top.... Once again, you have NOT explained just what your doing on the Farm House roof top young Kevin. 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted November 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 28, 2021 38 minutes ago, Andrew P said: Once again, you have NOT explained just what your doing on the Farm House roof top young Kevin. Fiddling? 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulgabill Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 40 minutes ago, Andrew P said: Once again, you have NOT explained just what your doing on the Farm House roof top young Kevin. It's obviously where he landed, after being blown off the roof of the creamery, in the storm! TONY 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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