One of the more challenging aspects of this project is realistically modeling the street track. Brooklyn still has a lot of the signature Belgian block in place so I drove up there, took some photos from as high as I could get, and cobbled together some images in photoshop to use as photo laminates. Doing […]
Author: Lmind1
Brooklyn Terminal Aug. 19
With the design book finished and submitted to Kalmbach, it’s back to your regularly scheduled programming. Next on the docket is finishing the Belgian block wallpaper overlays on the street trackage. This gets particularly dicey at the double turnouts. The first step is to photocopy one of the turnouts and cut the pieces out to […]
The Book is Done!
More re-assurance that I’m not floating in the Miami River as some have assumed given my lack of postings recently. For the past several months I’ve been working on wrapping up my new book for Kalmbach, How To Design A Model Railroad. I’ve finished and submitted it. After taking a bit of breather, your regularly […]
Brooklyn Terminal 5/31
Using photos from the Flagg books as a guide, I got the grass layer down this week.
Brooklyn Terminal May 12
Tom Flagg’s New York Harbor books are a virtual goldmine of ideas. It seems every time I go through them I notice something else. Helping the cause is the outstanding print quality Morning Sun Books brings to the effort. The images are so razor sharp they can be scanned and used for modeling. A few […]