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Looks amazing! Just like an illustration from the Railway Series!
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Please check your PM
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Thereβs nothing there.
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Did you really draw and paint that? I donβt think itβs photoshopped from RWS illustration like your other pics but I think it look traced from RWS illustration
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No, like everything else in my main gallery to date it's merely an edit through Word Document for layering all the cropped images, Preview for lining and taking the initial screenshots and finally Pixelmator for manipulating it into a finished upload. The original painting 'Pacific class engine Windsor Lad' was painted by R M Clark and struck by how similar the 1950 image was to Dalby and Kenny's pallet knew I could turn it into a RWSesque illustration.
Lastly the face is from The Three Railway Engines, but mirrored and edited slightly.
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This looks like an illustration taken straight from the books, and it warms my heart in a way only those illustrations can. This is fantastic, mate
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Thank you, I also love the 'missing instalment' quality to it 
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Yes, that's definitely a Gordon picture for yah. Like I know in your opinion you consider him the main star of the North Western fleet in the eyes of the Reverend W. Awdry. Which I'll admit that when you put too much focus on a "sugar coated (somewhat) kind personality" Thomas and a saddle tank Percy after the Ringo Star episodes, you have a TV series characterization that is allot more one sided than the jealous entitled grump that did have some remorseful moments which started out as a foil to Edward in the first book of the series canon. Yeah, one of the nice things of the internet is that people who grew up in the United States like myself along with other countries can listen and watch fan works that represent the character personalities of Thomas, Henry, Gordon, and Percy in allot more honest fashion than the "Mickey Moused" personifications given to them the further the Awdry family's vision was abandoned. Yeah it's a shame that when Britt Allcroft produced Shining Time Station. She wanted the world of Sodor to conform to the premise of that show than use the half hour format show to give the Anglo American public a clearer eye of the Awdry family's vision with US VHS episode releases being package in the order of the stories continuity wise than the Ringo Star UK and Australia tapes due to the greater pre internet production time make up gap for foreign distribution, but the past is the past.
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Not so much the star in terms of the RWS but the NWR's crown and jewel, plus also being their poster boy (always liked the Christopher annual line about Hatt secretly wishing he had a second Gordon).
I know what you mean about the TV series quickly becoming dominated by certain characters though and on top some becoming mere parodies such as 'Jeremy Clarkson' Gordon, this is why the RWS offered a much richer stage for potentialities without having to go far beyond its borders. Β
As with most Brits I never knew anything about Shining Time until the movie so that was something of a shock, tried to erase the whole thing from memory but it still lingers 
Also yes, without the internet I don't think I would of ever got back into 'Thomas' as like minded people and the hidden lore of Sodor would of remained under my radar.
CheersΒ
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Thanks glad you like it
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nice work, for sure!
jeez, that's amazing...
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Thank you, though I can not take credit for the artists behind these fine contributions to railwayana, in this case R M Clark.
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It was a pain to edit so glad you like it
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Considering the Red express coaches, and the early Blood & Custard used by BR plus the early Express Blue, what else could this be? Gordon speeding to Barrow or TidmouthΒ with the Wild Nor'Wester! Fricking brilliant!
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I really do need to do a brown coach edit at some point for an in-house express but the BR period this is from perfectly suited my wish of doing a proper post-Crewe Gordon at last
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Yiiiii! While I love the brown express coaches from the books, I grew up around the TV series. So this is pure nostalgia mix for me!
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This is excellent. A cracking one indeedΒ
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Thatβs is FANTASTIC.
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Cheers Ben
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Yes his illustrations were not bad but technical accuracy wasn't brilliant.
However the colours he used certainly were vivid just what you want to grab a child's imagination
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Noooo, like everything in my gallery it's merely an edit. The original 'Pacific class engine Windsor Lad' was painted byΒ R M Clark in 1950 or thereabouts.
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