GWR/LMS OO Gauge DCC RR&Co

Very little sheen on mine but disappears when given the final diluted black wash.

I left the grey on one guy as his grey suit, if you spill some paint on it, it can be removed with a light scrape of a knife blade.

Time to get these figures into a more realistic location











 On a factory roof!

 







 Wrights Soap Factory is right by the door and conceals the light switch…….so every day when I come down and turn the lights on I can smile at the thought of mill workers trying to get a sun tan in Oldham Granby
 





The mystery of the empty deck chair…….


The fourth figure in the kit was Miss Marple knitting a long woolen scarf………hardly suitable for a mill roof





So here she is posed more realistically, waiting for the autotrain at Brewery Lane Halt at the other end of the branch line





I do hope you are all keeping well

Best wishes

John

[user=434]John Dew[/user] wrote:

I invariably slop some flesh colour from the neck on to the shirt and have to touch up :oops:

You might consider cutting a shallow line between the neck and shirt, shirt and jacket, jacket and trousers etc., with a scalpel so that it forms a 'micro-gutter' between differently coloured areas of a figure…

 Douglas

Edit to say our posts crossed, nice details, you don't need 'micro-gutters' John!

D
 

Those are super figures in position, John.   I love the mill top sunbathers and Miss Marple is….. well, Miss Marple! I also recognise the chap at Brewery Lane, so I think I will have to start a thread I have been pondering following comments from yourself and Peter….
Super painting and once again, super little scenes.
Regards
Michael

Ok Phil…….you and Doug have convinced me  :lol:

The next Modelu figure I paint will have a natural grey shirt! :cheers

Best wishes

John

[user=312]Chubber[/user] wrote:

[user=434]John Dew[/user] wrote:

I invariably slop some flesh colour from the neck on to the shirt and have to touch up :oops:

You might consider cutting a shallow line between the neck and shirt, shirt and jacket, jacket and trousers etc., with a scalpel so that it forms a 'micro-gutter' between differently coloured areas of a figure…

Douglas

Edit to say our posts crossed, nice details, you don't need 'micro-gutters' John!

D

Thanks Doug thats very kind of you……..there is a guy with a white shirt where a gutter would have helped……I made a note of that tip from your article and intended to try it next time

Best wishes

John

[user=1512]Headmaster[/user] wrote:

Those are super figures in position, John.   I love the mill top sunbathers and Miss Marple is….. well, Miss Marple! I also recognise the chap at Brewery Lane, so I think I will have to start a thread I have been pondering following comments from yourself and Peter….
Super painting and once again, super little scenes.
Regards
Michael

Thank you Michael…..I am glad you like them. I must confess I do enjoy creating these cameos…….I probably spend far too much time painting figures that, at best, will be seen from 3' as opposed to the magnifying glass I use to scrutinise them……….

   :off topic :off topic I am certain I have spelt scrutinise correctly but my laptop jumps up and down and gets quite excited if I dont use a Z …….a downside of living in North America :lol:

Best wishes

John

 I have now added some of the painted Modelu figures to this Metcalfe Warehouse which conceals the northern entrance to the storage sidings:





As with the soap factory, in my previous post, its in a fairly prominent position. Its right above the computor screen so every time I run some trains (which is quite often!)…….I look at the rather bland frontage and am reminded that I need to do something with that loose flapping cable……not at all shipshape and seaman-like





Two doors opened plus some weathering and a few figures make a big difference….particularly with the cable singled and weighted :








I dont know why but I am curiously reluctant to weather my road vehicles. They appear on the layout fresh and pristine straight from the Oxford Bubble, whereas my locos and rolling stock all have varying degrees of weathering. Its quite daft and needs to be corrected so at long last I made a start with Wynn's lorry.





The tarp is a Smiths Wagon sheet turned inside out and crumpled.

The shots above were taken on the bench……perching the tripod on the computor screen was not very practical so this is about the best shot from a normal viewing position





A typical Granby dark satanic mill…..definitely merits a 1948 style photo:







I hope you are all staying safe and keeping well.

Best wishes from Vancouver


John

Hi John,

I like this loading cameo a lot, particularly as it captures a snapshot of social history, lost from personal memory to most people. It's well planned and beautifully executed and captures the action of the moment, as well as the constant vigelance of the warehouse manager, relieved for another incident free job, all but wrapped up.

Best,

Bill

Yes, John, another lovely little scene and a job you can tick off.  And is ithat a crate inside the building I spy?  You will be doing interiors soon!!
Happy modelling and keep well

Michael

Brilliant photos as ever John.

The characters really do look to be playing their parts to a "T" - did you have to "re-arrange" limbs or is that how they came ?  Either way, extremely well chosen.  :thumbs

I love the lorry - how did you do the weathering ?

I'm also impressed by the crate waiting to be hoisted aloft.  Is it one you made or bought in ?  Also pleased you remembered the planks to raise it off the truck bed - I often feel like asking how such loads would be lifted when the modeller has omitted them, which is usually the case…………….

I still covet your hidden storage yards ……………..such a clever idea.

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

Hi John,

I like this loading cameo a lot, particularly as it captures a snapshot of social history, lost from personal memory to most people. It's well planned and beautifully executed and captures the action of the moment, as well as the constant vigelance of the warehouse manager, relieved for another incident free job, all but wrapped up.

Best,

Bill

Thanks Bill……..I must have passed these scenes many times as a boy looking down from the Overhead Railway but in all honesty I have no idea of the practicalities of how the hoist operated……and I suspect I should have done a bit more research :oops:

I like the incident free comment…….health and safety was pretty relaxed in those days………for a brief moment I thought about replicating a "A fish called Wanda" cameo…..but didnt have the right sized dog! :lol:

Glad you are feeling a bit better

Best wishes

John

[user=1512]Headmaster[/user] wrote:

Yes, John, another lovely little scene and a job you can tick off.  And is ithat a crate inside the building I spy?  You will be doing interiors soon!!
Happy modelling and keep well

Michael

  Touche!  I originally intended to have two figures leaning down but it looked too crowded…….but with a single figure the scene looked a bit empty….so I slipped a crate in………not really up to the standard of Faversham though!

Best wishes


John

Great Cameo shots John time very well spent creating them perhaps an animated crane hoist at some point in the future? The lorry looks much better now you have dulled down the out of the box gloss.You have the same problem as me with the monitor it can obscure the view i have 2 monitors on my desk i have thought about suspending them from the ceiling somehow but have not tackled that yet.

Brian

[user=6]Petermac[/user] wrote:

Brilliant photos as ever John.

The characters really do look to be playing their parts to a "T" - did you have to "re-arrange" limbs or is that how they came ?  Either way, extremely well chosen.  :thumbs

I love the lorry - how did you do the weathering ?

I'm also impressed by the crate waiting to be hoisted aloft.  Is it one you made or bought in ?  Also pleased you remembered the planks to raise it off the truck bed - I often feel like asking how such loads would be lifted when the modeller has omitted them, which is usually the case…………….

I still covet your hidden storage yards ……………..such a clever idea.

Thanks Peter

The three figures are Modelu and unmodified. I bought them with the intention of going on a warehouse hoist cameo but, as I said to Michael, I intended to have two looking down and only one on the lorry. It didnt look right so the second guy is on the lorry looking down at the sling!  Because of the crate you can hardly see him nor can you see the driver’s oil stained knees……but you and I know they are there.

The lorry had a few washes of Vallejo brown grime dried off with a cotton bud. I often just dilute my regular acrylics for washes but I do like the Vallejo products for locos…..they seem to have minute particles in suspension that can be washed into all the crevices. I finished it with a light dusting of grey weathering powder.

The crate is a definite antique from Granby I …..thats 30 years ago. Its part of a Ratio plastic loads kit….different sized crates and sacks……they may well still sell them.

Best wishes

John

[user=2137]Briperran[/user] wrote:

Great Cameo shots John time very well spent creating them perhaps an animated crane hoist at some point in the future? The lorry looks much better now you have dulled down the out of the box gloss.You have the same problem as me with the monitor it can obscure the view i have 2 monitors on my desk i have thought about suspending them from the ceiling somehow but have not tackled that yet.

Brian

Thanks Brian glad you like the cameo. Not sure about animating the hoist though….I have enough trouble getting the locos to do as  they are told :lol:

I do have an ex tv monitor suspended above the layout  and it was very useful for checking stop markers and throttles when running schedules although

 you tended to get a crick in the neck when you were actually programming .Mr Gates kept overwriting the driver and it became too much of a faff to sort it out after each update. Then the kids bought us a monster tv so the old one cascaded down to the train room. This one works seamlessly and its a huge screen….

I should really buy a new larger tv holder and get rid of the old one:hmm

Hope you are continueing to improve and the pandemic is not affecting you too much

Best wishes

John

Douglas

[Talk later, John]

[user=312] Chubber[/user] wrote:

Douglas

[Talk later, John]

   

Nice scene John!

Thanks Phil…….not up to your standard I am afraid but once I have corrected the way the lifting chains are set up up I think it adds some interest to the corner.  :thumbs  

Best wishes

John