Yesterday we were celebrities - or at least three of the layouts were.
At Warley Mike Wild, editor of Hornby magazine, came up to the layout and asked if he could take some photos for the magazine. I said it had been in BRM but in 1997. This didn't worry him as not may will remember it from 11 years ago. I handed over some contact details and he went away promising to get in touch the next week.
True to his word a few days later I had an e-mail looking to arrange a session, but not just for Melbridge Dock but Flockburgh and the Melbridge Box Company as well !
So after a few more mails we arranged to set everything up yesterday so all the models could be done in one hit. As there isn't a room in our house big enough to do this we arranged to use the library area of the L&WMRS.
Mike turned up and started taking pictures, something that took well over 4 hours. Apparently we also chatted about VW vans for a while too although I'm sure it wasn't as long as an hour despite what anyone else says. Comparing the change in methods over the decade and a bit was interesting. In the 90's Tony Wright used a medium format film camera and single hand held spot. Now Mike used a Nikon digital SLR and pair of studio lights. The results should be moodier than before as the aim was to get an early evening look. The view on the back of the camera for the ones I saw looked good anyway.
At the end of the day there were something like 60 shots in total "in the can" covering the layouts. These will now appear in the magazine over the next year. Apparently I have to get the words for the first one read for mid-January in preparation for a March feature.
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