A view westward down 22nd Street from 13th Avenue. Peaceful. Optimistic. Unique from an architectural, surface texture, and color standpoint. Numerous visits have given me a sense of its essence, what makes it what it is. If I could successfully capture that in model form, I’d feel like I was “there” whenever I walked into […]
I remember visiting the Miami rail scene for the first time as if it were yesterday. No photo, video, or television screen could match the all-encompassing sensory experience of seeing it in person. The heat, breeze, humidity, sounds, smell, and impossible-to-define energy completely transcended any previous ways I’d thought of it. It was the same […]
Latch Shoes at 2201 17th Avenue is the last major structure on my Downtown Spur layout. My model of it will be finished in a week or so. Reality is sinking in, the layout for the most part, is “finished”. “Finished” layouts, they can sneak up on you. It begs the question, what next? Do […]
In his classic 1951 piece, If I Had A Million, Linn Westcott outlines how the money could be applied to the hobby. Would you do the same? Those who have been around awhile likely remember Model Railroad editor Linn Westcott’s famous article “If I Had a Million”. The article posed the hypothetical possibility of becoming […]
Pierre Koenig’s Stahl House and Vermeer’s “Woman Holding a Balance” are both fairly small dimensionally. Even so they’re held up as the pinnacles of artistic excellence. The subtle psychology of semantics, word choice, can be fascinating. Often we slip into, and make very telling, word choice selections without even knowing it. Case in point, the […]