Filmed on location in Langstead.
Merry Christmas From Calling All Stations
A little diorama to keep me busy
A fantastic little diorama from GWSRAlex on LocoYard. Very simple yet with so much to look at, this project proves modelling doesn’t have to take up acres of space.
Locoyard seems to be suffering a bit of a railway modelling drought at the moment, apart from Simon’s excellent exhibition articles, with lots of posts on the big railways. Mr Locoyard himself is still dithering about what to do ;-), so I thought I’d post a bit about a diorama I made to keep me busy and to try out a few things, such as static grass. First off, choose a subject. I’m rubbish at imagining places, so it had to be somewhere real. I chose the approach to Winchcombe station (shown above) with the road over rail bridge as a main feature as I could visit regularly to get photographs to model from. There would also be a small amount of platform to model, some signals and embankment, so lots of interesting stuff in a small space.
So a start was made, first by hunting for the largest piece…
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Langstead Makes The Tube Map!
Thanks to a Twitter suggestion from yours truly, my fictional town of Langstead is now on The Tube Map!
Not the real one of course but an Alternative version dreamed up by The Londonist. They recently asked people on Twitter to come up with suggestions of how they would rename stations if they had the chance. You’ll spot a lot of method in the madness as Stratford becomes Olympic Park and Westminster becomes Parliament Square.
Side Tracked: The Mist Beneath The Smoke
The London Underground carries over a billion passengers each year, but what happens after the commuters depart, the escalators are shut down and only a handful of staff are left to patrol the desolate stations?
Image by www.CGPGrey.com
Find out this Halloween weekend as John Mabey tells the story of real life accounts of unexplained phenomena on the worlds oldest underground railway in: The Mist Beneath The Smoke.
Friday October 31st and Saturday November 1st @ The Reading Rooms, Great Baddow, Chelmsford.
How To Improve Buildings: Simple Lighting
I’ve always thought the OO Gauge resin buildings (like those in the Skaledale range) look rather splendid.
But now I’m starting to add more lighting features to my layout – like street lamps and retro fitting rolling stock with LEDs, some of those cracking looking buildings are starting to look a little left out.
Calling All Stations 