allan downes Posted August 25, 2017 Author Share Posted August 25, 2017 Tetbury Goods Shed continued. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted August 26, 2017 Author Share Posted August 26, 2017 A small goods shed as was more typical of the quaint old British branchline in its day - unless it was Hemyock of course where it was nothing more than a tin box on stilts though nothing quite matched the steps up to the station platform - a spectacular arrangement of three loose concrete blocks ! Anyway, more of Hemyock later with its shortest run round loop ever that just about held a carriage and derailed the branch loco daily as part of its routine. Cheers. Allan And of course, you'll need this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted August 27, 2017 Author Share Posted August 27, 2017 In case there's still anyone out there. More signal boxes. Cheers. Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 Yes Allan, we're still here and very much appreciate the time you're taking to post these photographs. More excellent examples of the work you've produced and consider these signal boxes to be the '' business " ( is that a modelling term ?) Grahame Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted August 27, 2017 Author Share Posted August 27, 2017 Thanks, Grahame. Everyone's probably out cutting the grass and that's where I should be but the wife's not up to it. Cheers. Allan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve45 Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 Thanks, Grahame. Everyone's probably out cutting the grass and that's where I should be but the wife's not up to it. Cheers. Allan. Like I was, and the thermometer was at 100 F on the sunny wall here in Poole, I must be mad when I could be looking at your art Allan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted August 28, 2017 Author Share Posted August 28, 2017 Today we go all rustic with an old derelict water mill albeit the mill house itself is still lived in. The model was made out of fire cement a process of which I explained earlier in the thread along with water wheel construction which I have shown again here. Cheers. Allan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted August 28, 2017 Author Share Posted August 28, 2017 The Old Mill continued. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper John Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 Just come across this Thread, unbelievable modelling Allan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted August 29, 2017 Author Share Posted August 29, 2017 Here then, and moving in a completely different direction altogether, the goings on up in the Colorado mountains - American narrow gauge and the mining industry. Cheers. Allan And this is my good friend, Tony Wright, having a play with a Great Western pannier on a O16 Narrow Gauge railway ! And more later. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted August 31, 2017 Author Share Posted August 31, 2017 Tudor, and since there's quite a bit of it, I shall spread it over four posts. Cheers. Allan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted August 31, 2017 Author Share Posted August 31, 2017 Tudor 2. All the 'woodwork' is cut out of either 20thou white plastikard, or 20thou black plastikard depending on how much I have of either. When marking out on white plasticard I scribe in the guide lines very lightly then, so as to see them clearly when I have, I rub over everything with my fingers where the natural grease will high light the markings. Then everything is cut out, with the Stanley knife, by hand. When marking out on black plastikard, I rub over the lines with a little talc which also high lights everything for cutting out. Cheers. Allan And more later. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 Lovely work there Allan, who'd have thought Chester could be made to look so good in this scale ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted September 1, 2017 Author Share Posted September 1, 2017 And forever onward with more Tudor and with even more to come. Did you ever think that the day would come when you'd get pig sick of half timber and plaster ! Well it's arrived. Heh,heh, heh, Cheers. Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted September 1, 2017 Author Share Posted September 1, 2017 And at last. Yay ! Thanks for watching. Well that lot anyway. Cheers. Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted September 1, 2017 Author Share Posted September 1, 2017 I have bad news. Just found MORE Tudor ! Anyway, that can keep and make way for a few atmospheric pictures instead that I enhanced in Photoshop - well Serif actually. Some call this cheating but I believe that as long as you don't hack the actual model around and thus presenting them as something that they're not, then no harm done at all - if all you've done is added a backdrop and something that's not unusual anyway. Phew. got out of that one...I think. Cheers. Allan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted September 1, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 1, 2017 Stunning stuff. I especially like the 'Tudor' buildings - including the footbridge. I was wondering if you have done any other directly railway related Tudor architecture - say a Tudor Signal Box? Kev. he he he Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted September 2, 2017 Author Share Posted September 2, 2017 Found a few bits 'n' pieces that might be of interest and the first, my learning curve for model buildings back in the 70's - a Superquick building which I overlaid with matchstick timber work and an infill of plaster. It might not look much now, but at the time I thought it was the real deal and sent it off to the Railway Modeller who must have thought it the real deal also and published it after which, I lost all control of my ego ! Also here are a few drawings that I hope you might find useful. Cheers. Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted September 2, 2017 Author Share Posted September 2, 2017 And a few more. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted September 3, 2017 Author Share Posted September 3, 2017 Today, a few Vids for you. Cheers. Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted September 7, 2017 Author Share Posted September 7, 2017 Bin a few days I know but here's Fairford Station,a GWR delight ( not the model, the prototype !) Cheers. Allan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted September 14, 2017 Author Share Posted September 14, 2017 The Pantiles, a shopping colonnade in Tunbridge Wells. How they were built. Cheers. Allan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted September 14, 2017 Author Share Posted September 14, 2017 More later. Cheers. Allan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeatonLodge40 Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 Stunning Allan. One of your building you gave me (the derelict works/factory) I'm slightly modifying into an old sewerage works building which was close by Heaton Lodge Junction.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted September 14, 2017 Author Share Posted September 14, 2017 The Pantiles extended. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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