I'm now thinking about ripping all my track up and starting again. Oh, hang on: I'm still rubbish at scenery.

I'll call over Pete, is Thursday ok :)

Yeah, any day's OK if you can afford the air fare.  :)

Another three figures added.

More wonderful photos…. those buildings are stunning and I like the different photo angles, they really give a sense of scale.
Michael

Wow. Now that is some first class modelling. 
Fantastic work. 

Thanks Michael & Chris, another six figures out of the last batch left to paint.

I'm pretty sure I saw these wonderful photos first time around Phil - or very similar ones but they're always worth another look at the detail.   My word, what a difference the figures make !  They're now at a similar level as your modelling.

As others have said, you've done a brilliant paint job on them and the posing is superb.  Has Matt snaffled all the originals ?

Something for we mere mortels to aim for maybe …………………….. :roll:

Thanks Peter, yes the scenes have been photographed before but with the old figures which Matt now has, they are good but for extra realism, Modelu are a lot more lifelike, well, for close up shots anyway.
I have six more figures left out of this batch which I'm currently painting, hopefully they will transform existing scenes :)

Another few figures painted and added to the scrapped lorry cameo.

So much detail, especially in that first photo. Brings back memories of kids climbing on my dads lorry outside our house.

The old cars and lorries had a distinct smell, probably down to the leather seats, I do mean proper leather and not that plastic covered leather of today,  my car, now about fifteen years old has proper leather seats and the smell now is the same as when new ;-)

To quote someone very recently Phil, " Now you're talking  :) ".

     
  I adore the smell of traditionally hand crafted leather. I re-trimmed the TR3 in black leather with green piping way back in 1990 and feed it with  Connolly hide food every spring and it feels and smells even better 30 years on. Match it with the Irvin RAF flying jacket on a crisp, clear winter morning motoring and you truly know you're alive!


Rock on!

  

Phil, congratulations on  half a million views to Pen Y Bryn - quite a milestone and thoroughly deserved.
Michael

[user=1814]Longchap[/user] wrote:

To quote someone very recently Phil, " Now you're talking  :) ".

 
I adore the smell of traditionally hand crafted leather. I re-trimmed the TR3 in black leather with green piping way back in 1990 and feed it with  Connolly hide food every spring and it feels and smells even better 30 years on. Match it with the Irvin RAF flying jacket on a crisp, clear winter morning motoring and you truly know you're alive!


Rock on!

My red runaround also has leather food applied Bill, smells great afterwards, I also have an Irvin flying jacket, thirty years old now, actually made on the same machines as the originals and with a proper Irvin label, the jacket….well worn now!
Michael, thanks, but I can't see any “views” anywhere, let alone 500k?

Phil, if you look on the "Members personal Layouts" homepage  -from the main index, it gives the number of views each layout has received.  You have joined John Dew on hitting 500,000.   :cheers
Michael

Thanks Michael :)

Congrats on the 500 thou Phil ( you also see the number of views of each thread on the recents page btw)
I can confirm that I was able to snaffle up Phils old figures and the detailed painting of each is excellent  :thumbs

Thanks Matt :)

Birds eye view of the miners cottages.