Beeston Market Station forecourt/backscenes

[Dwayne]

Rik, I for one enjoy your videos, photos and all the other information you put out there. I may not comment on everything you post but I am perusing your FB page, blog and YouTube channel as well as what goes on this board. An example of your influence was my purchasing ten HLW flat car kits with the intent of bashing them into useful freight cars similar to what you've done on the Peckforton. Even today I ordered another six kits to be outfitted with the remaining six pair of Bachmann 24.5mm wheel sets I had on hand.

Regarding the enthusiasm towards battery powered locos, I've been contemplating switching over to the Deltang system myself for the past week. Prior to your mentioning this system on this forum... I'd never heard of Deltang since the vast majority of US modelers are still in a love affair with track power for some odd reason.

Keep in mind that although your modeling is based on UK themed railways which is foreign to my mind, I've gleaned a ton of useful information from you that may be incorporated into my own railway eventually in one form or another.

In summary, don't stop doing what you do.

[ge_rik]

Thanks Dwayne
I do enjoy doing what I'm doing and it's good to hear that some of it rubs off on others. I've always found looking at other people's model railways interesting and still do. The most interesting section of the Railway Modeller magazine was and is the Railway of the Month. We learn so much by seeing what others have done, which is what motivated me to write my blog, in the hope there might be a nugget or two to help someone else - even if it's to say, "Well, I'm not going to do mine like that!"

I'm always inspired by your track making and your terra forming. I'm not convinced I have the skills needed to make my own track, but am really tempted to give it a try - especially after seeing your outcomes. Not quite so sure about the terra forming, though - I don't think my soil is quite so well behaved as yours (and I do like my rocks and concrete !).

Rik

[tom_tom_go]

Like Dwayne, I never heard of Deltang until you started documenting about it online Rik so you keep rambling away!

[BorisSpencer]

That's very impressive Rik, puts your railway into its prototypical context.
I can't imagine you would want to go to those lengths for every photo, but to enable you to show a picture of something that I don't think I've seen outside of your blog describing its construction, adds a new perspective.
I've decided to take a slightly different approach and invested in a couple of cheap cammo nets to throw over offending garden detritus.

[ge_rik]

That's very impressive Rik, puts your railway into its prototypical context.
I can't imagine you would want to go to those lengths for every photo, but to enable you to show a picture of something that I don't think I've seen outside of your blog describing its construction, adds a new perspective.
I've decided to take a slightly different approach and invested in a couple of cheap cammo nets to throw over offending garden detritus.

That's a really good idea, Boris, thanks. I was in the garden centre the other day and spotted some brushwood screens, but they were a lot more expensive than I was prepared to pay. I reckoned it would have cost me around £130 for sufficient to mask the areas which I'd need to cover for some of my shots. I was trying to figure out if and how i could make my own. However, I'm assuming a decent sized camo net would be less expensive than that.

Rik

[ge_rik]

Actually, just looked on eBay and the nets are a lot cheaper for the equivalent size. A definite proposition. Thanks.

Rik

[Soar Valley Light]

Rik, as stated above you can do what you want but I'm sure I've seen that video before and thought it was so realistic. Now looking at it again, I can clearly see the changes and realise what an idiot I was for thinking it was real.

Sorry for making an issue of it but I can't now believe everything I see. The picture with the river in the background is obviously false so fine if that's what you want to do, I just can't see the point. Your models are so good without digital enhancements.

Your popular here, I'm not (not now anyway) so I wish I hadn't replied.

Michael,

Whilst in general I'm personally in the same camp as Phil, Tom and Dwayne, it doesn't meant I don't respect - and welcome - your opinion. It's been said before but this ability to share opinions openly and to be able to give and receive honest feedback is one of, if not THE, greatest strengths of this forum. PLEASE continue to to share yours with us and don't feel you are any less popular for having done so. I can't speak for the others of course but I'll have a quid on most of them sharing my view (I could be well out of pocket if I've got that one wrong!)

All the best,

Andrew

[Peter Butler]

I'm with you all the way Andrew and this is one reason why I encourage communication rather than just a 'like' or a silly smilie thingy which gives no alternative or constructive opinions whatsoever.

[FWLR]

Rik, as stated above you can do what you want but I'm sure I've seen that video before and thought it was so realistic. Now looking at it again, I can clearly see the changes and realise what an idiot I was for thinking it was real.

Sorry for making an issue of it but I can't now believe everything I see. The picture with the river in the background is obviously false so fine if that's what you want to do, I just can't see the point. Your models are so good without digital enhancements.

Your popular here, I'm not (not now anyway) so I wish I hadn't replied.

Michael, don’t stop commenting on threads, everyones entitled to their opinion and you made a very valid point about the back scene. We all display in the garden, that’s want it’s all about isn’t it. If we had lakes and castles and other stuff we would be in the real world of the standard gauge railways.

Come on folks we run in the garden or back yard for our America cousins and if we had everything covered up with unreal scenes then we wouldn’t be in the garden or yard.

I did notice the offending wheelbarrow Rik, which I think started this discussion, but to me I at first only saw the building and then the barrow and also the waste bin, which to me is just part and parcel of having a garden, (we all don’t have massive areas to store such things) so keep on showing has is for me and leave all the back scene stuff to those who run trains indoors.

For me I at first look at the trains and rolling stock, then the buildings, then the track laid and then the flora, then all the other stuff comes into view.

Ps. I have said before in another thread of yours Rik, how much I love your stream and the way you have videoed it.

[ge_rik]

I've posted a link in another thread to an online tool for creating poster-sized images by printing a picture out on a series of A4 sheets which can be glued together. Thought it might be useful for testing an image before forking out for a vinyl banner - https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 54#p138550

Rik