Work continues on Filito’s Market on 12th Avenue. Since the last update, the roof awning was finished as were the banks of security bars along the front. The steel awning was made from Evergreen #4544 Board and Batten siding. There are angled support brackets underneath made from .060″ styrene. For coloring, I very lightly dusted […]
Over the years, I’ve received many requests from my readers to put out a book on my Miami layouts. It took a while, but that day has arrived. The book is now live and available on Amazon. While heavily slanted towards being a photo album, I also cover the thoughts behind the layouts and their […]
Having wrapped up its work for the day, Y320 passes milepost 37 and Antillean Marine on the way back to Hialeah Yard. The Spur is three and a half miles long, and all of the mileposts are still in place.
With practice and more experience with cameras, editors, and lighting I feel I can do a better job photographically than I did ten or fifteen years ago. I’ve gone back to re-shoot some of my older images. The one above is looking westward up N River Drive on The Downtown Spur layout. One thing I’ll […]
Watching the crews over the past few op. sessions I could see how the operational fusees (Logic Rail Technologies) added realism without coming across too much like a gimmicky gameboard token. Since they played an integral role in the session, I went on the hunt for a cleaner, more streamlined on/off switch to trigger them. […]