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Posted on 10/06/11 09:21:28 AM
Steve Caplin
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Challenge 355: The model village
This week's Challenge comes courtesy of Nick Curtain, with a picture he took on a recent visit to Bekonscot Model Village in Buckinghamshire, England.

Nick suggests that Forum members might like to turn this into a night scene - and I wish you luck with the conservatory. Personally, I can never look at a house like this without thinking of murdered baronets, shifty butlers and tell-tale footprints in the shrubbery. Perhaps you could combine both requirements?

A bonus for anyone who manages to tell me what the man with the jug is going to do to the dog that's just crapped on his shoe. Or at least, that's the way it looks to me.

High res is here.



Posted on 10/06/11 10:55:29 AM
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Re: Challenge 355: The model village
high five!!!I'm from Bucks.(...but whose is the owner of this house that you shrunk gypsy? )
Ok, my answer is.

Man with the Jug: "Do not fear me, gypsy. All I want from you is your tears. Pleas give them to me, or I will take them."
Woman at Yardsale: "I'm not a gypsy. I'm a midland farmer's daughter and this is my dog Gator."

Posted on 10/06/11 11:09:57 AM
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Re: Challenge 355: The model village
I love Bekonscot!

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Posted on 10/06/11 8:21:56 PM
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Re: Challenge 355: The model village
Thanks a bundle Nick! Hope I have some time this week.

As for the action in the right corner, I reckon the woman's going to receive the content of the jug while at the same time the dog feels an unexpected pain in its chest and a sensation of sailing backwards through the air towards an unknown destination outside the frame!

PS: I love dogs...and cats!


Posted on 11/06/11 04:52:00 AM
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Challenge 355: The model village
Nobody craps on the caretaker's shoe and gets away with it...especially not the dog...





Posted on 11/06/11 1:19:29 PM
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Larger image: http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s93/GKBphoto/Bekonscotatnightv2.jpg



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Posted on 11/06/11 1:20:44 PM
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That looks great although scarily like those creepy Thomas Kinkaide pictures

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Posted on 11/06/11 1:21:10 PM
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Bjansen ...

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Posted on 11/06/11 11:47:18 PM
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josephine harvatt wrote:
That looks great although scarily like those creepy Thomas Kinkaide pictures


....and I thought I was the only one who thinks T. K.'s pictures are creepy!
Joey

Posted on 12/06/11 08:31:06 AM
Nick Curtain
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Re: Challenge 355: The model village
Wouldn't want their electric bill Gordon!




Posted on 12/06/11 11:56:33 AM
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http://vimeo.com/24984537



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Posted on 12/06/11 8:11:47 PM
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Wonderful Anna! Now how did you come to have that soundtrack in your collection?

Posted on 12/06/11 8:18:40 PM
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Re: Challenge 355: The model village
Nick Curtain wrote:
Wouldn't want their electric bill Gordon!


So sensible Nick! Profligacy, waste, tut tut! Great work both of you.

Posted on 12/06/11 9:13:47 PM
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Re: Challenge 355: The model village
Thought I would try a variation



much better here:

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s93/GKBphoto/Bekonscotmoon.jpg



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Posted on 12/06/11 9:15:32 PM
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Re: Challenge 355: The model village
Sophie wrote:
Nick Curtain wrote:
Wouldn't want their electric bill Gordon!


So sensible Nick! Profligacy, waste, tut tut! Great work both of you.


Probably owned by some City banker that couldn't care less


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Posted on 12/06/11 10:13:53 PM
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Posted on 12/06/11 11:26:55 PM
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Re: Challenge 355: The model village
NATO forces attack wedding party. Faulty GPS blamed.



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Posted on 13/06/11 01:44:04 AM
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Re: Challenge 355: The model village
Made better use of the book for this one, including pinching the night sky! Thanks, Steve.



Posted on 13/06/11 12:04:25 PM
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Re: Challenge 355: The model village
Here's mine. The Elopement. Ahhh!

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Posted on 13/06/11 2:47:55 PM
Ben Mills
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Re: Challenge 355: The model village
There's a contract out on the dog.


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