mole said:
That's very good Mike it just get's better and better you have an eye for detail that very few can imitake Have you ever thought of doing static setup's (diromas) spelt some thing like that taken to a local railway show's there you could pass on some of your knowledge and exsperance's a sort of masterclass thing
Hi Chris, many thanks for your kind comments. I think that I am really just a starter when compared with some of the guys on this forum like Ray Danekin, Mel and others.
Mmmm dioramas.......
When I was a teacher, one summer in the 80's, the whole school embarked on a single project called 'Target London'. I had the year 6 class and elected to do the development of transport into and out from the great metropolis (road, rail and canal).
At the time I had a double classroom in an old three decker victorian school building (the room was about 50+ feet long).
As part of the project we, amongst a whole heap of other things, built a railway 50 feet long complete with scenery, sidings, canal running alongside etc etc. ...sort of a bit of a large diorama (their experience in creating 'little worlds' in boxes, as I mentioned in a previous post in this thread, really helped them to make up scenes on the railway.
I sort of caught the bug from doing it with the class, and made some heavily detailed dioramas of my own at home (about 3ft by 2ft) based on HOn3 logging.
I would build one, leave it for a month or two and then break it up to build another (after the first one it became easier to do this!). As it was before the digital age I never took any photos......
This carried on for a a year or so and then I just stopped and never did any railway modelling stuff until I got into G scale in 2006.
I think that my limited expertise might give more material for laughter, than for passing on knowledge! But I do thank you sir........
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Excellent 
