That’s how to share your passion..... great modelling, I really appreciated you comparing it with the real thing, lovely camera work; the low angles and focus work is perfect, and it’s a joy to listen to your commentary. Thank you!
Superb modelling. Smashing videography evoking the days of film. Enjoyable narration too. I slipped into childhood dreams of Ivor the Engine, Jones the Steam, Idris the Dragon and Oliver Postgate’s voice sending us off to slumberland. Thank you.
A magic trip into the worlds of what might have been. Superbly built, very good use of forced perspective and an enjoyable way of presentation in the video.
Excellent modelling - very reminiscent of a number of real life Welsh railway scenes - I particularly like the background colours and the modelling of the buildings - great work 👍🏻
Absolutely magnificent!!! Great use of the vertical hill to give added perspective to the road passing through the village. Great modeling and entertaining video story board narrative!!!
Absolutely fantastic. I grew up in that area and my summer treat was a trip to Dollgoch Falls on the Talyllyn railway. I also did a fair bit of courting up in those slate mines lol. You have really captured the charm and nostalgia of the area.
Astonishing detail! Even the quality and amount of lighting, which is so often neglected, is perfect. Added to the perfect camera angles and timing, this is worthy of TV documentary-style modelling any day!
I'm sure I saw that corrugated iron workshop at 2:43 in Blaenau Ffestiniog! Very nice it looks... Thank you for not completely mangling the Welsh place-names. Your efforts are appreciated ;-) It would have been an amazing route.
You brought life to your very realistic layout. The detail is superb.If it were a preserved line, it would be very busy with tourists and train enthusiasts! Very well done!
Thank you and Haha! I think the engine driver and fireman on the little narrow gauge engine are the only people to be seen at the moment. I shall get round to populating the layout at some stage, though, as you say, at present they're probably all at home wishing Zoom had been invented in 1946. :)
Hello, i read the article on this in BRM some moons ago. Im having a go myself at scratch building and would like to have a go at a recreation or something inspired by your kerr stuartish 0-4-0. Im curious about the wheels on the locomotive, where are they from i enjoy the solid wheel look? Obscure question to ask i know. Lovely model by the way, if only there was more of the narrow gauge line! I enjoyed the flooding backstory as well.
Hi! The wheels were my attempt to fill in the gaps between the original "fake" spokes, using Milliput. I think it would have been easier if 1) I had removed the wheels first 2) I had been more patient waiting for the Milliput to cure. My wheels don't bear close inspection, but, in spite of that, the loco has given me much satisfaction and pleasure. Good choices for me were the more recent Hornby chassis, which runs very smoothly, using my computer to create the lining on decal paper, and mentioning my struggles with creating the spectacle rings for the cab on RMWeb - that resulted in a very kind person offering to turn them for me on his lathe. The flooding backstory took a long time to evolve, but it gives me the justification for how the layout operates :)
Having been brought up in Corris Uchaf from age 9, with two years in primary school in Corris and secondary school in Tywyn, this is the most believable fictional "local" model railway I have seen. Congratulations on attention to detail particularly with architecture, but also with the way your 3 dimensional buildings merge into the 2 dinensional backscene. The only improvement would be to move the calendar forward to 1956 and see a BR loco and some BR crimson coaches. Looking forward to seeing more of this layout. Thanks
Thank you very much for those kind words Phil! It really does does mean a lot to have somebody with local knowledge find the layout and it's backstory credible and enjoyable.
All the modern technology to make black & white film into colour - now to give effect you turn colour to B & W !!!! - Just a laugh at different people`s ideas. I love the Welsh railway scene.
Gorgeous little layout!! I shall be doing something similar in 00 gauge, but mine’s on my local heritage railway, the Epping Ongar Railway, where I do some volunteering.
What a fantastic layout and a more than fitting tribute to the railways of the area. The rising street framed by the railway is a wonder in itself. And the attention to detail superb! 😎👍 Absolutely love it. And the pronunciation was far from the worst, trust me 😜🍀
"Ardderchog!" (Welsh for "Excellent!"). Your pronunciation was really good too. May I ask, did you paint the backscene? I hope to one day make a model of the Bala - Ffestiniog railway.
Thank you! Good luck with the harbour! I find it very useful to make quick mock-ups before starting on the distorted structures needed for the forced perspective.
What a lovely atmospheric Railway, I can almost feel the Rain. May I ask how large is your Railway, I too Model in O Gauge and only have a small Room available for it. Mine will be set in South Wales with the Coal Industry as its Theme. And I too could hear Oliver Postgate’s Narration of Ivor the Engine.
@@robertbrown2728 Thank you for your Reply, my Room is a wee bit smaller, but if I can manage to create a Quarter of the Realism that you have I’ll not be disappointed. Thank you once again.
Wow. This is one of most wonderful layout I ever see. Thanks for sharing this spectacular video. I really enjoy It. This kind of video estimulate to work in my layout as a beginer... Obviosly I'm not at this level. Sorry if my english Is a disaster.
Thanks very much! The buildings and walls are all handmade; mostly with card on a balsa framework, coated in knotting and then covered with DAS clay, which is then scribed and painted.
In 1946 at the time of my layout, and before nationalisation and British Railways liveries, I would guess most engines would be a sooty dark grey in the real world; in my fantasy, they're all a bit cleaner and more cared-for looking than the real things :)
Nice layout, and I would be interesting in seeing more of your Narrow Gauge, seeing as though I have got a 14X10 Garden Shed, with a big old 009 and 00 Gauge layout
It's a lovely layout, but when the narrow gauge engine appeared all I could think of was Ivor the Engine and the sound he use to make as he went along. Pish-cuff, pish-cuff, pish-cuff...
That’s how to share your passion..... great modelling, I really appreciated you comparing it with the real thing, lovely camera work; the low angles and focus work is perfect, and it’s a joy to listen to your commentary. Thank you!
Thank you very much Chris!
A Stunningly Beautiful Railway Diorama. It must be a pure joy to work on. Cheers.😁👍
Thank you very much!
That model railway is beautiful,great detail,great background,beautiful buildings!
Thank you very much!
Superb modelling. Smashing videography evoking the days of film. Enjoyable narration too. I slipped into childhood dreams of Ivor the Engine, Jones the Steam, Idris the Dragon and Oliver Postgate’s voice sending us off to slumberland. Thank you.
Thank you!
Definitely one of the most beautiful layouts I have seen! The brickwork is astounding! Well done indeed!
Thank you very much!
This is incredible. Please make more videos showing this off! You should be very proud 😊
Thank you very much.
Buildings and backscenes really good and great commentary
Fabulous in every way.m Thank you for doing this.
Thank you!
Very polished concept and execution in film,. plus superb model of course. Thank you.
A magic trip into the worlds of what might have been.
Superbly built, very good use of forced perspective and an enjoyable way of presentation in the video.
Thank you Tom!
Such beautiful craftsmanship - thank you for sharing.
Thank you!
Excellent modelling - very reminiscent of a number of real life Welsh railway scenes - I particularly like the background colours and the modelling of the buildings - great work 👍🏻
Thank you Dave!
My first time seeing your model, it is beautiful, love the mystic village scenery brilliant skills. Thank you.
Thank you very much!
You've captured the atmosphere of your chosen prototype very well. The misty mountains in the background are very believable. Thanks for uploading.
Thank you!
Wonderful scenery, great story and a fantastic layout. Regards Michael
Such a great video of an amazing layout. All layout tours should be in the style of 'Railway Roundabout' - absolute master stroke. Bravo!
Thank you very much!
Great job of integrating the scenery with the backdrop.
Thank you very much!
Absolutely inspirational.
Thank you very much John!
Really enjoyed the last ren minutes and seven seconds. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
A good presentation in both the narrative and the visuals. Thanks, Ronn
Thank you!
A pure pleasure to watch this beautifully modelled railway. Thanks for sharing....all the best....Tom
Thanks very much Tom!
beautyfull diorama with very realistic ambience and very nice machines. I love it thx
Thank you!
A superb piece of art and engineering!
Thank you Marc!
Magnificent realism. Very beautiful. The past brought to life.
Thank you!
Absolutely magnificent!!!
Great use of the vertical hill to give added perspective to the road passing through the village.
Great modeling and entertaining video story board narrative!!!
Thank you Tom!
Absolutely fantastic. I grew up in that area and my summer treat was a trip to Dollgoch Falls on the Talyllyn railway. I also did a fair bit of courting up in those slate mines lol. You have really captured the charm and nostalgia of the area.
Thank you very much Mark!
What a beautiful build
Beautifully modelling.
Thanks Malcom!
Your craftsmanship is amazing. This is so beautiful and inspiring. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you!
Incredible and beautifully done. I was more than halfway through watching this before I realised it was a model. Amazing. I’m in awe.
Thank you!
Simply stunning.
Thanks!
THIS IS RAILWAY MODELLING! Absolutely Fantastic!
Thanks!
Incredibly beautifully made video 🤩👌👍 the layout is fantastic 😍
Thank You! That's very kind!
Astonishing detail! Even the quality and amount of lighting, which is so often neglected, is perfect. Added to the perfect camera angles and timing, this is worthy of TV documentary-style modelling any day!
Thank you very much John!
A superb layout with excellent realism and atmosphere. The attention to detail is breathtaking, and stunningly realistic. A layout to be proud of.
Thank you!
Absolutely love the end of the line, sand bags fantastic work.
Thank you very much!
Very nice video !! Really nice landscape and buildings, I really like the harmonizing colors.
Thank you!
Superb craftsmanship and artistry; amazing..!!
Thank you very much!
Love this. Great modeling and awesome video style. Thanks for sharing. Mark
Thank you Mark
Very nicely done, completely believable, and thank you for sharing.
Thank you very much!
Robert Brown I hope to see an update one day, not many reach your standards. 👏👏👏👏
This is brilliant! An amazing model, very well built. The style of filming is top notch and it all feels very real. Great job!
Thank you very much!
You have done an excellent job here, in producing this great video, to show us your model railway. Well done !!
Thank you!
Houses look like mine was in Cwmaman in 2002-2006..great video..
Very nice video. I'm not a railway modeller but can appreciate the love of them.
Thank you!
simply breathtaking! well done ol' boy!
Thank you very much!
I really enjoyed this video. The layout looks incredible.
Thank you!
What a beautifully modelled naturalistic layout 💖.
Thank you!
Absolutely amazing! Australia.
Thank you Jim!
Beautifully done!
Thank you!
This really gives you a feel for the area. Excellent modelling skills on display.
Thank you George!
I'm sure I saw that corrugated iron workshop at 2:43 in Blaenau Ffestiniog! Very nice it looks... Thank you for not completely mangling the Welsh place-names. Your efforts are appreciated ;-) It would have been an amazing route.
You're absolutely right about the workshop :) I agree - it would have been a great route. Fantastic landscape.
Amazing work, makes me want to visit Wales right now.
Thank you very much!
You brought life to your very realistic layout. The detail is superb.If it were a preserved line, it would be very busy with tourists and train enthusiasts! Very well done!
Thank you!
Superb modelling and video production!
Thank you very much!
Love the narrative! Modelling is excellent too
Thank you Mark!
Even this superb layout is in lockdown.😁👌
Thank you and Haha! I think the engine driver and fireman on the little narrow gauge engine are the only people to be seen at the moment. I shall get round to populating the layout at some stage, though, as you say, at present they're probably all at home wishing Zoom had been invented in 1946. :)
Nice setup. Very realistic.
Hello, i read the article on this in BRM some moons ago. Im having a go myself at scratch building and would like to have a go at a recreation or something inspired by your kerr stuartish 0-4-0. Im curious about the wheels on the locomotive, where are they from i enjoy the solid wheel look? Obscure question to ask i know. Lovely model by the way, if only there was more of the narrow gauge line! I enjoyed the flooding backstory as well.
Hi! The wheels were my attempt to fill in the gaps between the original "fake" spokes, using Milliput. I think it would have been easier if 1) I had removed the wheels first 2) I had been more patient waiting for the Milliput to cure. My wheels don't bear close inspection, but, in spite of that, the loco has given me much satisfaction and pleasure.
Good choices for me were the more recent Hornby chassis, which runs very smoothly, using my computer to create the lining on decal paper, and mentioning my struggles with creating the spectacle rings for the cab on RMWeb - that resulted in a very kind person offering to turn them for me on his lathe.
The flooding backstory took a long time to evolve, but it gives me the justification for how the layout operates :)
Having been brought up in Corris Uchaf from age 9, with two years in primary school in Corris and secondary school in Tywyn, this is the most believable fictional "local" model railway I have seen. Congratulations on attention to detail particularly with architecture, but also with the way your 3 dimensional buildings merge into the 2 dinensional backscene.
The only improvement would be to move the calendar forward to 1956 and see a BR loco and some BR crimson coaches.
Looking forward to seeing more of this layout.
Thanks
Thank you very much for those kind words Phil! It really does does mean a lot to have somebody with local knowledge find the layout and it's backstory credible and enjoyable.
Modeling I could only dream of. Brilliant.
Thank you Jeffrey!
Amazing! It took me a little while at the beginning to decide if it was actual footage or a model. Congratulations on great work.
Thank you very much!
Amazing modelling.
All the modern technology to make black & white film into colour - now to give effect you turn
colour to B & W !!!! - Just a laugh at different people`s ideas. I love the Welsh railway scene.
This is a great Moba, wonderful. Grüße from Germany
Thank you very much Jens!
Backdrop worthy of Smallfilms. Superb.
Thank you very much!
Absolutely superb 👍👍👍👍
Thank you very much!
An excellent video, Keep up the good work :)
Thank you!
That is a beautiful layout, very realistic.
Thank you!
wow, beautiful layout with a story.
Thank you!
Gorgeous little layout!! I shall be doing something similar in 00 gauge, but mine’s on my local heritage railway, the Epping Ongar Railway, where I do some volunteering.
Thank you! Good luck with your project!
Very nicely done.
Thank you!
Spot on scenery. Wow. Regards Alan in Dover :o)
Glück Auf,
Tolles Video!👏👍
Danke schön!
Great video with superb atmosphere !
Thank you Merv!
That is beautiful!
Thank you!
What a fantastic layout and a more than fitting tribute to the railways of the area. The rising street framed by the railway is a wonder in itself. And the attention to detail superb! 😎👍
Absolutely love it. And the pronunciation was far from the worst, trust me 😜🍀
Thank you very much Tim !
lovely video of a superb layout, well done A+
Thank you very much that's very kind
Great vid. Pronunciation very good👍👍👍
Bravo!
Your videos are distracting me from work. The craft involved is surreal - the realism is staggering
Thank you! Happy to help with the work distraction :-)
Fantastic. For a few moments at the beginning I was frantically trying to remember where Llanidris actually was!
Thank you very much!
"Ardderchog!" (Welsh for "Excellent!"). Your pronunciation was really good too. May I ask, did you paint the backscene? I hope to one day make a model of the Bala - Ffestiniog railway.
Thank you! Yes, I painted the backscene. The Bala Ffestiniog would be very appealing!
Amazing, cars and figures give it life, whoops just saw a person in an orange engine. So historic, utterly incredible.🇦🇺
Thank you very much! There will be a few more people and a small number of road vehicles - it being 1946 - before too long.
Great forced perspective - inspiration for my Cornish harbour.
Thank you! Good luck with the harbour! I find it very useful to make quick mock-ups before starting on the distorted structures needed for the forced perspective.
@@robertbrown2728 thanks. Yes, sometimes seems a waste of modelling time, but time well spent in prep. Is worth its weight in gold, I agree.
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What a lovely atmospheric Railway, I can almost feel the Rain. May I ask how large is your Railway, I too Model in O Gauge and only have a small Room available for it. Mine will be set in South Wales with the Coal Industry as its Theme. And I too could hear Oliver Postgate’s Narration of Ivor the Engine.
Thank you Peter! The whole layout including the storage tracks, which are on a kind of turntable under the hillside, is roughly 24 ft 6 in long.
@@robertbrown2728 Thank you for your Reply, my Room is a wee bit smaller, but if I can manage to create a Quarter of the Realism that you have I’ll not be disappointed. Thank you once again.
Grumbley gasworks is off the branch line here.
Magnifique 👍👍👍👍
Wow. This is one of most wonderful layout I ever see. Thanks for sharing this spectacular video. I really enjoy It. This kind of video estimulate to work in my layout as a beginer... Obviosly I'm not at this level. Sorry if my english Is a disaster.
Thank you very much! I understand your English very well :)
@@robertbrown2728 gracias. I'm from Argentina. I really enjoy It.
Beautiful stonework 1:35. Buildings, stonewalls & retaining walls. Handmade or commercially available?
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks very much! The buildings and walls are all handmade; mostly with card on a balsa framework, coated in knotting and then covered with DAS clay, which is then scribed and painted.
@@robertbrown2728 Very nice!
I used to get a lift back and fore from work on one of those tanky engines . They were not that colour , but a mat gray .
In 1946 at the time of my layout, and before nationalisation and British Railways liveries, I would guess most engines would be a sooty dark grey in the real world; in my fantasy, they're all a bit cleaner and more cared-for looking than the real things :)
Stunning Robert, thanks for sharing, it's a sub from me
Thanks!
Awesome layout
Thank you!
Thank you!
Superb 👍
Cheers!
Excellent
Thank you very much!
Nice layout, and I would be interesting in seeing more of your Narrow Gauge, seeing as though I have got a 14X10 Garden Shed, with a big old 009 and 00 Gauge layout
Thanks Thomas. I'll try and post some video of the narrow gauge section before too long :)
It's a lovely layout, but when the narrow gauge engine appeared all I could think of was Ivor the Engine and the sound he use to make as he went along. Pish-cuff, pish-cuff, pish-cuff...
Haha! There's definitely a hint of Ivor in there somewhere :)
I live not far from there.
A wonderful layout, sir, and your history of it is spot on.
Thank you!
brilliant
Superb , i wish my modelling and filming skills was as good as yours
Thank you!
One can only dream of having such a thing...