One of the biggest advantages of modeling the present is that research information is so easily attainable. For example you can make site visits to measure and photograph structures, streets, or rolling stock. It also makes having all of your answers relatively easily answered in terms of how operations unfolded. Case in point, yesterday Tolga […]
Author: Lmind1
Model Railroading As Art
This week I finally finished and released my latest book, Model Railroading As Art. Of all the books I’ve done so far, this was by far, the most challenging. Articulating the subjective, artistic concepts in this case, is no easy task. About half way through the project I took a hiatus and went to night […]
Finally, Some Water!
I wanted to get one of the water scenes in as it takes away some of the guesswork as to what the overall composition is supposed to be. Aerials indicate the bay is essentially a teal hue which I created using a 50/50 mix of blue and green acrylic craft paints. When that dried, I […]
Code 40 Track and Turnouts
When adopting standards that are going to be fairly time intensive to implement, it’s always good to think through your motivation before investing significant amounts of time. There should be at least a rough correlation between the agony behind adopting said standards and the payoff. Ego or a manhood measuring stick doesn’t constitute a good […]
Track Planning Based on Op. Session Length
Certainly, there are many reasons to feature rail served industries on a layout beyond the operational aspect. If you’re modeling a section of a specific prototype, and the industry is there, you’d probably want to include it on your layout just to be accurate. You’d do so whether you care about operations or not. If […]