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Design Your Thinking Part Six: What Now?

by mike | Jan 29, 2023 | The Art of The Craft, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience

As you can see, I have a clean slate again. The Mill Road cameo is in temporary storage until I decide its fate and the other sections have been dismantled for the materials. Although I was and still am happy with Mill Road, I’ve taken it as far as it wants to...

Design Your Thinking Part Four: Time To Let Go of The Box?

by mike | Jan 16, 2023 | OST Believes, The Art of The Craft, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience | 5 comments

As much as I’ve sung the praises of shadowbox construction, my tastes are moving toward simpler forms. Even though there is a lot to love about the shadowbox format, looking at Mill Road today the eight-foot long x 24 inch high modules seem clunky and overbuilt...

Design Your Thinking Part Three: Borrowed Space

by mike | Jan 8, 2023 | The Art of The Craft, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience

Our kitchen is small by any standard but it works for our needs. It’s just the two of us and our cooking and food prep are modest. We wanted more counter space but there wasn’t room to add any in the kitchen itself without creating an awkward bottleneck at...

Design Your Thinking Part Two: Frameworks

by mike | Jan 3, 2023 | OST Believes, Storytelling, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience | 1 comment

One framework of contemporary railroading is the idea of MASSIVE . Gigantic locomotives and freight cars; huge facilities and heart pounding, in your face action. That’s not the whole story though. As seen in the following images, the modern scene also includes...

What Can Art Teach Us As Modelers?

by mike | Dec 14, 2021 | The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience | 6 comments

Starting in the mid-1970s I spent the better part of twenty years developing my skills as a watercolorist. Most of that work focused on the landscape and later, railroad subjects. I also painted in oils and created finished works in both pencil and pen & ink. I...
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