Bells and more trains

I have finally installed my Christmas present -- a duck doorbell.






I went to another railway exhibition with a friend last Saturday. These were large models for garden railways at a scale of 16mm to 1 foot or about 1:19 of full size. The exhibition was nearby at Stonleigh Park near Coventry. It was a very pleasant day out. There were many very detailed locomotives and rolling stock with many models of Irish narrow-gauge railways. It seemed strange to me, however, that the models of buildings and people were more like caricatures in contrast to the fine detail in the train models. In particular the stonework on many buildings was much too deeply grooved. When you look at a real stone or brick building, including those that are a couple of hundred years old (there are plenty of examples around here) the surface is almost smooth between the stones or bricks, and if you reduced everything to 1/19th of its size it would be perfectly well modelled by a flat printed surface. Unfortunately I didn't take any photos to illustrate the point.