At last I have finished No 2002 Earl Marischal and uploaded it. I'm quite pleased with it as it was a locomotive that I wanted to illustrate for some time.
The Silver Jubilee coaching stock has now been changed (or most of it) to show the coach ID letters in blue.
After receiving an interesting email I am mulling over the possibilities of including end and rear views. I think that I'll publish one or two and see how it goes.
Tata
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Catch Up
I haven't posted anything for quite a while, I notice. I wasn't sure if this blog thing was a good idea. Any way, I'll try it again for a while.
I'm still staggered at the number of hits that I'm getting on the site - nearly 45000 in 7 months. This relates to over 15000 visitors from all over the world. When I started to produce the illustrations I did it purely for me. We've all seen lots of black and white photos which don't bring out the grandeur of the locomotives while coaches - well, they're just coaches. But put them into colour and that's a whole new ballgame. So I shared them by creating a website and I'm glad that I did.
There will be errors, of course, bound to be if one is trying to interpret a verbal description of a colour from 50 or 100 years ago. Thank goodness some clever people collated lots of information at the time before it was all lost.
Since the last post there have been quite a few changes. The 1937 LMS Coronation Scot is now posted together a page showing the whole train. I've numbered them from one set only but, in fact, there were three sets all with different numbers of course, but the sets were identical.
The NBR is at last represented with a Reid Atlantic. I had a lot of trouble deciding on the colour for this one, in fact, according what I read, the NBR had the same trouble at the time.
Others include No 2510 Quicksilver, 46228 Duchess of Rutland, a Raven Pacific, etc. And so it goes. LNER No 2002 Earl Marischal should be posted this week.
A bit of a controversy regarding the colour of the identity letters carried on the Silver Jubilee coaches. I have always been sure that they were stainless steel and about 10ins in height. Harris (Gresley's Coaches) states that they were blue in colour and only 4ins high. Recently I had a mail from Nick Campling who tells of a conversation with the paint shop foreman at Doncaster who was in the paint shop at the time of the construction of the coaches. The foreman stated that the letters were, in blue, a cobalt blue. This would about RGB 30-0-163 or #2700A3 on a monitor set to 2.2gamma at 6500K. This is obviously good provenance and my illustrations of the letters on the Silver Jubilee coaches will be amended accordingly.
Enough for now. Regards
I'm still staggered at the number of hits that I'm getting on the site - nearly 45000 in 7 months. This relates to over 15000 visitors from all over the world. When I started to produce the illustrations I did it purely for me. We've all seen lots of black and white photos which don't bring out the grandeur of the locomotives while coaches - well, they're just coaches. But put them into colour and that's a whole new ballgame. So I shared them by creating a website and I'm glad that I did.
There will be errors, of course, bound to be if one is trying to interpret a verbal description of a colour from 50 or 100 years ago. Thank goodness some clever people collated lots of information at the time before it was all lost.
Since the last post there have been quite a few changes. The 1937 LMS Coronation Scot is now posted together a page showing the whole train. I've numbered them from one set only but, in fact, there were three sets all with different numbers of course, but the sets were identical.
The NBR is at last represented with a Reid Atlantic. I had a lot of trouble deciding on the colour for this one, in fact, according what I read, the NBR had the same trouble at the time.
Others include No 2510 Quicksilver, 46228 Duchess of Rutland, a Raven Pacific, etc. And so it goes. LNER No 2002 Earl Marischal should be posted this week.
A bit of a controversy regarding the colour of the identity letters carried on the Silver Jubilee coaches. I have always been sure that they were stainless steel and about 10ins in height. Harris (Gresley's Coaches) states that they were blue in colour and only 4ins high. Recently I had a mail from Nick Campling who tells of a conversation with the paint shop foreman at Doncaster who was in the paint shop at the time of the construction of the coaches. The foreman stated that the letters were, in blue, a cobalt blue. This would about RGB 30-0-163 or #2700A3 on a monitor set to 2.2gamma at 6500K. This is obviously good provenance and my illustrations of the letters on the Silver Jubilee coaches will be amended accordingly.
Enough for now. Regards
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