The Bluebells are coming!

Sorry this is so late, but I've been incredibly busy! Anyhoo here's my thoughts on Bluebells of England and Stepney's Special!  Let's start at the beginning shall we?

If you couldn't tell, I took a lot of inspiration for this episode from Rusty to the Rescue. I was fortunate enough to find a decent instrumental of Stepeny's escape theme. I'm also really proud of my Other Railway scenes! I love the way the fog and diesels turned out! Did anyone notice that the station on the Bluebell Railway was Sheffield Park? That's my little Easter Egg! If you haven't already, check it out!

Now two weeks later comes the next chapter, Stepney's Special.

Once again, absolutely loving how this episode came! Once again, the scrapyard scenes turned out really well! Once again lots of inspiration coming from Rusty to the Rescue! The one thing I did have to change in this episode was I had to edit the original text to avoid using names of other Bluebells that I couldn't make appear. Also this episode has cameos galore! Oliver, Gordon, James, Percy, and Toby (not to mention Flying Scotsman, Wilbert, and Fergus as Bluebell engines, and 199, The Diesel, Spatter, and Derek as Other Railway Diesels, and Bertram as a scraped engine). So all and all, I'm super please with it! Watch it below!

Now I don't think I'll be able to get Train Stops Play out this weekend. I know, I know, I've been really behind lately, but I've had school, Cross Country meets, and now it's my church's annual carnival and I'm working all weekend. Who knows, maybe I'll be able to film Sunday. Thanks so much for all of your patience! I really appreciated no one demanding new episodes!

Another late post

I know this is really late, but here's the wrap up to Tramway Engines!

We'll appropritoly start with Mavis. This was fairly easy to film (for the most part) and feature the return of two locations that once again, hadn't been seen since Season 2 during Branchline Engines. These of course being Anaphona Quarry and the Quarry Tramroad. The place where Mavis gets stuck proved very tricky to film on because of the slope. More than once I had to completely rebuild the set because the supports below the snow fell out. You'll also notice a lot of footage in this episode is sneakily reversed. A big thanks to my cousin who helped me with this episode! Watch the episode here: 

Now time for Toby's Tightrope! 

I was surprised at how easy this was to film! The bridge scenes worked out in one or two takes almost every time! This was really really nice! But I did get a little peeved when the Runaway Theme wasn't long enough to span the whole runaway. Ah well! I did get a lot of deleted scenes out of this episode too! Watch out for them in music videos in the future! But get watching!

The Wooden Railway Series will return by Saturday with Bluebells of England!

Tramway Engines underway!

Sorry this took so long to publish! I'm having issues with uploading pictures!

I kicked Tramway Engines off with Ghost Train almost two weeks ago!

You probably noticed that I used a lot of steam effects in this episode. More so than I usually do! This was completely intentional to give it a similar look to that seen back in Season 2 of the television series. While I wanted the look to be similar to that of the TV series,  I wanted the overall atmosphere to be darker separating me from the TV Series version. To achieve this I used music mostly from Season 5's Haunted Henry  and Duncan Gets Spooked. I think that the music combined with the excessive steam effects gave the episode a darker feel despite it only being a prank. Imagine if I did a really dark story... Anyway the lyme was of course flour stuck on by soaking Percy in water (Poor Percy's had a rough couple of weeks!). We also got to see a location we hadn't seen since Season 2! This being Ffarquhar Yards. This last being seen in Percy's Predicament.  All and all, I think this is one of my best episodes to date! Watch it below!

Next up in Tramway Engines is Woolly Bear!

What a stick mess this was! Not in a bad way mind! The treacle was really maple syrup and the hay dead grass. The syrup turned put to be much clearer than I anticipated but it was sticky enough! The grass was stuck to Percy with nothing but the syrup! This also marks the return of Knapford Harbor, a location that has had very few appearances, the most recent being in Percy and Harold, but has been mentioned several times since then. This was easier to film than Ghost Train and less extravagent, but I'm incredibly pleased with the result none the less! Watch it now!

Now I'm going to be away for a week and a half starting tomorrow so you can expect Mavis around the 28th of this month. As the Thin Controller said, "Patience is a virtue!" I'm doing that story next Season! 

Bad Lookout Released

Here's the end of my Mountain Engines adaptation! Please enjoy Bad Lookout!

This episode was just as tricky as Mountain Engine before it! The hills are as hard to film as ever and Godred's crash was hard to get right. But I won't bore you with the same stuff from the last blog!

Next week we go back to the Ffarquhar Branch (trust me, you'll be seeing a lot of them this season!) to kick off Tramway Engines! Until then!

Mountain Engine

Here's the second episode of Season 4, Mountain Engine!

This was by no means an easy episode to film! The Culdee Fell sets were difficult to assemble and very delicate to work on. Also because they were raised the camera could not meet the track the way I would have liked. If your wondering why there are trees inconsistently, it's because trees would only have enough air to grow near the bottom of Culdee Fell. I hope you enjoy the episode and keep a good lookout for Bad Lookout next week!

Here's a Howdy Do...

Well here's a howdy do... I can't release Mountain Engine his weekend because I don't have a second Culdee yet. I've bought it, but it's not here yet. Bear with me, I'll get it out soon!

Thomas and the Hurricane Storms In!

Here we are again! Time to kick off Season 4 with Thomas and the Hurricane!

This episode took a really long time to film, but that's not why it aired one day late. I was having complications uploading to YouTube, but now these have been resolved and I can give you the (if I do say so) amazing Season 4 pilot!

I should probably get around to vacuuming up all those pesky leaves now... Stay tuned for Mountain Engine next week! I hope I can find another Culdee in time!