Sights of Sodor - Dried Up River Bed

This week on the Island of Sodor, we journey up the line to see Dried Up River Bed! Watch a time lapse of the little narrow gauge engines doing their day's work by checking out the latest video!

In the TV series this set didn't get much air time, but I specifically remembered the scene where Rheneas is pulling one coach and a brake van over the bridge in the song "Gone Fishing" and I've really like the look of the set and how it was in contrast to the river bridge. So I decided to make the set because I thought it would make a fun addition to my series.

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Sights of Sodor - The Skarloey Railway Viaduct

This week on the Island of Sodor, we journey up the line to see the Skarloey Railway Viaduct! Watch from the sidelines as the engines go about their work on the viaduct by checking out the latest video!

 How well did I do at recreating this set from the TV series?

I've never had such a large and difficult set to work with until I had to film on this. The Skarloey Railway Viaduct has always been an iconic part of the Skarloey Railway, even reappearing recently in the TV series' 18th season. This bridge is huge! And very difficult to film with. If you can't tell, the bridge itself was taller than the sky background that I had so I had to make a special blue background poster that was big enough for the sky background to sit on. 

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What do you think of the Skarloey Railway Viaduct? Wanna see more episodes with the viaduct in it? Let us know by commenting down below or in the YouTube comments section. I always appreciate feedback from my fans.

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Sights of Sodor - River Bridge

This week on the Island of Sodor, we journey up the line to see the River Bridge! Watch the little narrow gauge engines journey up and down the line as they pass by this bridge by checking out the latest video!

Does my set look like the one in the TV series?

I said before that the first episode I ever saw was "Peter Sam and the Refreshment Lady" and I loved this scene as Peter Sam went over the bridge with the blue coaches. For this little sneak peak I wanted to be creative and show off one of the new ideas that I came up with after season 1 was completed. This idea was using a gray backdrop to represent an overcast or cloudy sky. This allowed me to have stormy scenes without it being nighttime like in "The Plumber's Express." I'm really happy with the way it turned out and it sparked a couple of other ideas that I've implemented into Season 2. I won't spoil anything. I'll just let you guys spot them later.

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What do you think of the gray sky? Wanna see more episodes with a storm going on? Let us know by commenting down below or in the YouTube comments section. I always appreciate feedback from my fans.

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