by mike | Sep 29, 2019 | Detailing Track, The Art of The Craft, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience |
With a lifting fog, thanks to Photoshop, it’s easy to look at an image like this and think there is some magic secret to it, or that the modeling is so far beyond your skills, there is no point in trying. What you don’t see in photos like this are the...
by mike | Sep 18, 2019 | Detailing Track, The P48 Experience |
It seems I didn’t learn the lesson about how easy it is to overcrowd a scene with track. Last weekend I repeated the exercise from the old Indiana and Whitewater on my new Mill Road cameo layout. On the old layout I had three tracks on one end that crowded things from...
by mike | Oct 2, 2018 | Detailing Track, Storytelling, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience |
The discussion about detailing track tends to focus on tieplates and four spikes per tie. While the myriad details are important, so is the right of way itself. A mistake I made on the old layout was making everything flat. I did raise the track up a bit, but could...
by mike | May 21, 2018 | Detailing Track, Modeling Techniques, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience |
Over the last week I stripped off the top layer of foam core and applied a thin layer of premixed drywall compound, a process I’ve used many times. While it was good to explore different materials, I don’t have time for shortcuts anymore. Let me explain. I...
by mike | May 15, 2018 | Detailing Track, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience |
With more work on the sample, this is what I came up with. Some things worked and many others didn’t and I’ll say from the start I’m not happy with this outcome. The foam board is lightweight, which is a plus, however, I don’t like the way it carves. The cracks are...
by mike | May 8, 2018 | Detailing Track, Modeling Techniques, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience
Chris Mears posed a question on his blog about motivation. He wonders what motivates us to do what we do? What draws us to the workbench and our subject matter? As he suggested there is no single answer as we’re all unique individuals with equally unique motivations....
