AI Image Manipulation

[icairns]

It's interesting that it's followed your instructions to the letter - the surrounding areas including the train are virtually untouched.

Yes, I noticed that myself.  I plan to keep experimenting with this photo to see what enhancements can be made.

Ian

[Malc-c]

Now this is a very good use of AI.  Granted there are AI artefacts such as 5 legged horses if you look closely, but what a wonderful way to bring drawings to life

[LASteve]

The chap on One Tree Hill in Greenwich changed his stockings before the close-up. Maybe he got the white ones muddy

[Greygreaser]

  "Unfortunately it looked like two tower cranes were growing out of the dome so I cropped those out. The latest version of Photoshop has what they call "Generative Fill" which does the same thing with AI, just a whole lot quicker."
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I did the same with a whole batch of photos having discovered too late! a thumb print on the lens here's a doctored one

[EtchedPixels]

Thanks to AI, I have been able to colourise this photo to remind me what the prototype looked like

Although I'd point out it's redesigned parts of the locomotive like the safety valves. Not something you can trust versus using re-colouring tools.

It's a nice little loco though - I have a couple of old white metal kit ones of it. Nice to know Dapol will be making another tender motorising kit with throw away body though 

[icairns]

It's a nice little loco though - I have a couple of old white metal kit ones of it.

@EtchedPixels

I am not aware that anyone made a white metal kit of an LNER J72.  Do you have any more details?

Ian

[Newportnobby]

I had a pic of my Kawasaki and just gave the instruction "Set the motorcycle in a country winter scene" and got a pretty decent response from Google Gemini. Then opened it with 'Paint' and set a textbox to create a seasonal card for the Club forum. Pretty pleased with it.

[EtchedPixels]

It's a nice little loco though - I have a couple of old white metal kit ones of it.

@EtchedPixels

I am not aware that anyone made a white metal kit of an LNER J72.  Do you have any more details?

Ian

Had a dig - the kit was it seems an ABS J63 originally on a minitrix chassis and someone has converted it a bit (safety valves, no cylinders, box at front. It's a very old (and hardly fine scale) kit in either form

So apparently there was no J72 kit. My error.

[icairns]

Had a dig - the kit was it seems an ABS J63 originally on a minitrix chassis and someone has converted it a bit (safety valves, no cylinders, box at front. It's a very old (and hardly fine scale) kit in either form

So apparently there was no J72 kit. My error.

@EtchedPixels

For those interested in the early history of British N gauge, two manufacturers made white metal kits of the somewhat obscure Great Central Class 5A that became LNER Class J63.  The class consisted of only seven locos and all had been withdrawn by 1957. The availability of an outside cylinder chassis may have been one reason these kits were developed.

In 1967, Minitrix produced a kit to fit on their German T-3 0-6-0T chassis.  This was a stop-gap until the RTR Minitrix dock tank became available.  (This was also the first N gauge loco I ever bought and the first white metal kit I ever attempted). 

To allow the motor to fit, the kit has an overscale cab and the general features were more freelance than prototypical in appearance. 

In the 1970s, Beaver made a more prototypical white metal kit.  This was designed to fit the Minitrix dock tank chassis (which had a smaller motor than the German 0-6-0T chassis).  This kit was acquired by Adrian Swain and became part of the ABS range. 

The photo below shows my Minitrix version on the left and the ABS/Beaver version on the right. 

Ian