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Taken at the 2019 Piedmont Founder's Day celebration
Each of the volunteers was asked to play a game of charades where the audience had to guess the action
Improvised identification markings of the National Security Corps, made of the original badge of the uniformed police.
Czech Police Museum, Prague.
ink, acrylic, nero lead, fineliner
65x50cm 250g/m2 paper
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Back to the Blue Pullman conversion and a dilemma I've been trying to solve is the rehash of the windows
As noted before, the original Tri-ang intermediate Parlour cars were modelled on the 1st Class units with their six main windows
However, to convert them to the 2nd Class Parlour cars with their seven main window arrangement presents a challenge
In the first instance, replacement sets I've purchased don't seem to be anywhere near the correct size and secondly would still need new white 'surrounds' with associated repainting
So, what to do?....
This being a dummy run, I purchased some clear sheet PETG and then using some approximate 'window' sized white sticky labels, I attached them in the rough positions then over-sprayed them with white car primer
Then after a coat of gloss white car primer to finish them off I then cut the PETG to the approximate insert size and then slid the new ones into where the original window insert had been removed
Then to prove the concept, I carefully removed one of the labels which revealed a perfectly clear new window
On the actual 2nd sets opaque windows are at each end for the Lavatories
At this point it is only a proof as I need to source some near perfect size labels and pay more attention to cutting the PETG more precisely but it seems to work in practice
It might also be a solution for the Kitchen cars which will save me chopping up the spare ones I've acquired as intended
Overall whilst some painting will occur, in the main I'm trying to avoid repainting that lovely Nanking Blue paintwork by replicating the way Tri-ang approached the white window surrounds in their original production runs
No doubt once done I'll apply an overall coat of varnish to give it all some extra durability
Mind you on the real Western Blue Pullman sets, both the 1st and 2nd Class cars were all were fitted with Venetian type blinds which were set between the double glazed windows......now there's a challenge!
Western Blue Pullman_windows
This is also a good idea to stay way from skin diseases and infections the we can get from this flood water.
This is just a simple, improvised portrait from yesterday. I'm still trying to figure out where I am as a "photographer". I don't really consider myself one, but I didn't really have nay other word to put in its place. I still can't decide my "style" of photography, and I don't believe that I ever will. It's just a mish-mosh of photos from my head. I see a lot of things differently than how they're supposed to come out, but I try to make the best out of every photo.
One issue I'm really struggling with is the editing. I haven't even come close to figuring out how to make all of my photos look uniform. I love saturation, but for a lot of photos, high saturation does not work. With that being said, I don't want to just have dull photos. I'm just now starting to think in depth about my style. I want to decided upon one thing so I can stick with it, but I also want to experiment with the processing afterwards. I don't really know what I want to do at the moment. I hope I figure it out soon.