As I build the trackside industries I want to be open to the possibility that I may want to work a small camera or video camera in at some point and photograph the back side of the structures. That means detailing said back sides. I continue to chip away at the 4300 District Blvd. structure. […]
Author: Lmind1
Two “Must Have” Industries
For those planning a steam to diesel era layout, I wrote a blog on my business site on two industries that should appear in almost every instance. You can read it HERE.
4300 District Blvd. 4/3/17
Work begins on what will, in all likelihood, be the final structure on the LAJ. In this case, it’s this art deco beauty at 4300 District Blvd. Since all photographs are facing north (and therefore taken looking into the sun) the lack of photo contrast makes the photo laminate method a no go. Other than […]
HELP!
Problem solved! Thanks so much to my blog readers. You guys are great! The pub. in question was the December 1976 issue of “Railroad Modeler” magazine. Never in a million years would I have found that on my own. _________________________________ In the late 1970’s an excellent article on the Los Angeles Junction Ry. appeared in […]
Threading the Eye of the Needle
In his must-read piece, “11 Lessons Learned” in the April issue of MR, Tony Koester writes “One huge lesson gleaned from even a cursory review of the V&O was to model the ordinary. It’s all too easy to compile a list of eye-catching prototypes to model, and the inevitable result is that everything competes to […]