Mosslanda: Night Shift - an introduction...
I have a bit of a creative itch, I want to make something new - but something quick enough to progress without lots of effort - something then, about the size of a Mosslanda... This time, building on what I have learnt recently on 'Inside Out' and the wonderful interplay between light and dark, possible despite the small scale, I'm planning on building a model to play with in the dark... As a child I loved the idea of trains at night. I wired grain of wheat bulbs up to a 12v lighting circuit I installed (in a somewhat rudimentary fashion, fed from the supply on the back of my Dad's old H&M Clipper). Signal boxes, station buildings and platform lamps glowed with a warm incandescent light whilst the Dapol 14XX shuttled around the branchline in the pitch black... Taking inspiration from another childhood reference, a book I've had for over 30 years provided two images that will allow the scene to be visually contained and give something of the light to bounce off, ...
