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| Y170 pushes a rake of GH hoppers to the Garden City Mill at Ballarat North on the flour mill pilot. The Winfield billboard can been seen positioned against the window frame at the rear of the layout. The baseboard is only 30cm wide as it is strategically placed above the workbench (desk) and below the window. |
Two large billboards of different designs use to exist between the railway line and Ararat St to the west of Ballarat station. I had always wondered what was being advertised on these billboards in 1983 which is when the layout is set. Warren Banfield recently posted a picture on Facebook of S315 and S300 on the Royal train at Ballarat included billboard in the background with Winfield cigarette advertising. This photograph inspired me to produce a representation of this billboard on the layout.
For this project I produced a the frame and backboard from thick cardboard. I then mixed acrylic paints to produce the colour of the frame.
I couldn't find an image of the Winfield advertising that had the wording and the yellow circle in the same position as the billboard. My daughter did all the hardwork using Adobe Photoshop to re-position the wording, create the missing part of 25's text and match the background colour.
The cigarette advertising helps place the era of the layout as the early 1980s when tobacco advertising was widespread. Like diesel hauled passenger trains included with the billboard in the image below they both disappeared from the Ballarat landscape approximately 20 years ago.
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