Location: Here.
Nice stuff!
I like how you put the Predator poster on it.
I like how you put the Predator poster on it.
Birmingham New Street Station Log(Hello from the UK)
hotdogpants1
Deputy Commissioner
Location: Here.
jim_s-w
Locomotive Driver
Hi All
To draw a line under this one I have now weathered the shelter and painted some of the windows with Revel clear yellow. A simple drinks can on the roof and this one is finished. I must admit its been a great little project!
Cheers
Jim
To draw a line under this one I have now weathered the shelter and painted some of the windows with Revel clear yellow. A simple drinks can on the roof and this one is finished. I must admit its been a great little project!
Cheers
Jim
jim_s-w
Locomotive Driver
OK
Last time I post a picture of this - promise!
A spot of work on the path, tiny spots of dark grey depict discarded chewing gum and equally ting spots of beige with an even smaller spot of white give an impression of discarded cigarette butts!
Its a long time since I hand rendered type. Needs a little bit of cleaning up but overall I am pleased with this little scene!
Cheers
Jim
Last time I post a picture of this - promise!
A spot of work on the path, tiny spots of dark grey depict discarded chewing gum and equally ting spots of beige with an even smaller spot of white give an impression of discarded cigarette butts!
Its a long time since I hand rendered type. Needs a little bit of cleaning up but overall I am pleased with this little scene!
Cheers
Jim
Roberts0001
Chief Commissioner
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Excellent work! I like how you mentioned earlier "a soldering iron and some scraps of plastic" amazing what you can acheive with time, patience and some scraps! Well done!
Mickelaar
The Ghost of George Stephenson
Location: At the layout, tinkering.
Jim, Very authentic looking, and with those cigarette butts, very Brummie!
I've said it on YMR & I'll say it here..
True inspiration you are!
I've said it on YMR & I'll say it here..
True inspiration you are!
Gwiwer
Rt Hon Gentleman and Ghost of Oliver Bulleid
Location: Loitering in darkest Somewhere
Having now seen the shelter - and indeed the entire attached station-under-construction part of the layout - I can vouch for the fact that it all looks even better in real life.
The smaller works such as the detail can be seen better on photos but they are all there and add to the whole scene.
Superb stuff.
The smaller works such as the detail can be seen better on photos but they are all there and add to the whole scene.
Superb stuff.
jim_s-w
Locomotive Driver
Hi All
Fancied a simple quick project but something that fits into the 'out of the ordinary but very ordinary at the same time' folder.
The point of a billboard is to get your attention and most do this quite well, however take away the poster and they kinda disappear into the urban noise. However a normal billboard is just sheets of plywood. Luckily for me the one on the Odeon cinema is a back lit type and I found a picture of it looking pretty derelict with no poster and the innards on show.
So an evening with microstrip and this is the result
Hope you like it
Jim
Fancied a simple quick project but something that fits into the 'out of the ordinary but very ordinary at the same time' folder.
The point of a billboard is to get your attention and most do this quite well, however take away the poster and they kinda disappear into the urban noise. However a normal billboard is just sheets of plywood. Luckily for me the one on the Odeon cinema is a back lit type and I found a picture of it looking pretty derelict with no poster and the innards on show.
So an evening with microstrip and this is the result
Hope you like it
Jim
jim_s-w
Locomotive Driver
Thanks Guys
Been messing around with the plank again!
Also some more experimentation with long exposures and a single white LED
Cheers
Jim
Been messing around with the plank again!
Also some more experimentation with long exposures and a single white LED
Cheers
Jim
Draffa
Chief Commissioner
OKLooks fantastic!
Last time I post a picture of this - promise!
Mickelaar
The Ghost of George Stephenson
Location: At the layout, tinkering.
What is real and what is not!
New Street looks better than ever!
New Street looks better than ever!
jim_s-w
Locomotive Driver
Thanks Eddie
(hope the second two pics of this post take you back!)
Spent my time this week working on the platform tops for the wolves end of the station thus-
While I have this board in the house I took the opportunity to do some more 'LED' piccies
This one uses a single LED as the light source and a 30 second exposure
This one uses 3 LEDS to give a wider spread of light again with a 30 second exposure. Lights in the background and a feint exhaust added in photoshop
Cheers
Jim
(hope the second two pics of this post take you back!)
Spent my time this week working on the platform tops for the wolves end of the station thus-
While I have this board in the house I took the opportunity to do some more 'LED' piccies
This one uses a single LED as the light source and a 30 second exposure
This one uses 3 LEDS to give a wider spread of light again with a 30 second exposure. Lights in the background and a feint exhaust added in photoshop
Cheers
Jim
jim_s-w
Locomotive Driver
Hi All
More low light stuff, this time, aside from normal finishing theres no photoshoppery on this one.
Sometimes you just have to take advantage of what you are doing at the time. In this case I was weathering the platform surfaces with a wash thus the chance to try a rainy night shot.
Cheers
Jim
More low light stuff, this time, aside from normal finishing theres no photoshoppery on this one.
Sometimes you just have to take advantage of what you are doing at the time. In this case I was weathering the platform surfaces with a wash thus the chance to try a rainy night shot.
Cheers
Jim
jim_s-w
Locomotive Driver
Hi All
I have been busy with the pepper! Using sludgy grey paint and ground pepper to represent the mouldy stuff you get on damp walls. I have also used Klear for a leak that is still wet.
Fancied a little play with Black and white too.
Cheers
Jim
I have been busy with the pepper! Using sludgy grey paint and ground pepper to represent the mouldy stuff you get on damp walls. I have also used Klear for a leak that is still wet.
Fancied a little play with Black and white too.
Cheers
Jim
meh
Chief Commissioner
Location: Sydney
looks great Jim, the effect on the wall stands out. so you add ground pepper into the paint?
-Mitch
-Mitch
jim_s-w
Locomotive Driver
Hi Mitch
I paint the wall and stipple the ground pepper into the wet paint with an old brush
HTH
Jim
I paint the wall and stipple the ground pepper into the wet paint with an old brush
HTH
Jim
Gwiwer
Rt Hon Gentleman and Ghost of Oliver Bulleid
Location: Loitering in darkest Somewhere
However you administer the pepper workmanship of that quality is not to be sneezed at.
Dazz
Deputy Commissioner
The use of the pepper certainly spices up the look of the walls. 
jim_s-w
Locomotive Driver
Hi All
The other afternoon I built a couple of street lamps -
Built from 0.6mm. 1mm and 1.6mm metal tube with the base from 1/8th Plastruct. The head is shaped from microstrip and the access panel from paper.
Regular visitors will know that because the layout is set in the day, I dont need the lights to work however I fancied a working one to match the one above. Of course the finished item had to look identical so -
The inner workings, A surface mount LED soldered to the 0.6mm tube with a single strand of coated wire fed down the middle.
The finished lamp as lit. I am assuming that one lamp has gone a but wrong and will stay on!
Cheers
Jim
The other afternoon I built a couple of street lamps -
Built from 0.6mm. 1mm and 1.6mm metal tube with the base from 1/8th Plastruct. The head is shaped from microstrip and the access panel from paper.
Regular visitors will know that because the layout is set in the day, I dont need the lights to work however I fancied a working one to match the one above. Of course the finished item had to look identical so -
The inner workings, A surface mount LED soldered to the 0.6mm tube with a single strand of coated wire fed down the middle.
The finished lamp as lit. I am assuming that one lamp has gone a but wrong and will stay on!
Cheers
Jim
jim_s-w
Locomotive Driver
Hi All
A few more items of smaller street furniture.
The temporary bus stop uses the middle of an EFE wheel as its base, copying the real things.
Cheers
Jim
A few more items of smaller street furniture.
The temporary bus stop uses the middle of an EFE wheel as its base, copying the real things.
Cheers
Jim
TheMeddlingMonk
Deputy Commissioner
Location: The Time Vortex near Melbourne, Australia
Brilliant work there on the street lights! 
julesmwatson
Junior Train Controller
Yeah, great work there, Jim.
I've been using the 'Johnson's Klear' marketed as Pascoe's Long Life here in Aus. Fantastic stuff - thanks for the heads up.
Jules
I've been using the 'Johnson's Klear' marketed as Pascoe's Long Life here in Aus. Fantastic stuff - thanks for the heads up.
Jules
jim_s-w
Locomotive Driver
Thanks guys
Just a quick note to say best wishes for all those caught up in the flooding, It looks properly awful on the news here.
Cheers
Jim
Just a quick note to say best wishes for all those caught up in the flooding, It looks properly awful on the news here.
Cheers
Jim
jim_s-w
Locomotive Driver
Hi all
I have for a while been meaning to model the large brackets the bridges of Hill St and Naviagation street sit on.
As I need 8 of them I thought it best to design a little etch.
The above shows the 2 parts assembled.
The completed bracket
And again, sat on a penny for scale.
Cheers
Jim
I have for a while been meaning to model the large brackets the bridges of Hill St and Naviagation street sit on.
As I need 8 of them I thought it best to design a little etch.
The above shows the 2 parts assembled.
The completed bracket
And again, sat on a penny for scale.
Cheers
Jim
jim_s-w
Locomotive Driver
Hi All
most of my platform lamps are different in one way or another. Some have no extra bits, some have Phones, some HST stop signs and some loadspeakers or combinations of some/all
the one at the front of the layout has all 3 - makes a change for the complex one not the be hidden by something else! A little etch for the folding base thing!
Cheers
Jim
most of my platform lamps are different in one way or another. Some have no extra bits, some have Phones, some HST stop signs and some loadspeakers or combinations of some/all
the one at the front of the layout has all 3 - makes a change for the complex one not the be hidden by something else! A little etch for the folding base thing!
Cheers
Jim
Draffa
Chief Commissioner
Your work is nothing short of superb!
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