Yes, more trains tonight, though these ones are 00 scale...
I (Ben) have a semi-regular moonlighting turn away from the Day Job, writing articles for the model railway press, and turned in a piece based on the line which served Holyhead Breakwater (well, with close family living nearby, it would have been rude not to). The piece was published in Railway Modeller last year, but I returned to the project with an expanded, re-written piece for the Hornby Collector's Club this summer.
I'd built a diorama of the Breakwater end of the layout for that earlier article, and refurbished it for a new shoot this time around. Last time, it took two attempts at the pics, and they were done in the tail-end of the Lockdown when going out to take pics was somewhat tricky.
I went back out to the same spot I'd used before, a nearby reservoir; work pressures meant I couldn't achieve the original plan of going out to take the shots actually at the seaside.
Me and Elder Child were out to take the pics, trying to beat an approaching thunderstorm. We struggled though to find a decent angle this time, as some trees had grown up over the spot we used last time.
Somewhat precariously balanced on top of the wall.
Considering it was late on a Sunday afternoon, we had the usual pressures of location shooting; it suddenly became busy with dog-walkers, several tractors, old people swimming, you name it...
An issue this time around was the article would be 6 pages instead of 2, so I needed to build another diorama in order to create more illustrations.
After toying with doing a model based on the inland-end of the line, time pressures (the Day Job again) meant I had to settle for something simpler, inspired by this stretch.
The rather colourful tablecloth makes a re-appearance. By the time this was completed the weather had well and truly turned, so this had to be shot indoors with the painted backdrop and a borrowed studio light.
The shoot turned out alright- I was pleased with the model, but it's a shame I couldn't take the pics outside with natural light and a real sky backdrop. Writing this in early November, it feels like it's barely stopped raining since.
And here it is, in the Collector.
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