by mike | Jun 22, 2021 | The Art of The Craft, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience
A while back I wrote about a different way to construct foam bench work. (Post is linked below.) There’s a lot of potential in that design I want to explore in the future but for the extension to Mill Road, I stayed with the original form and materials. I want the new...
by mike | May 17, 2021 | The Art of The Craft |
Staging has become such a given of layout design that often times the volume of staging track exceeds the amount of visible track on a layout. With a cameo design like Mill Road, where operations focus only on a handful of car movements, I don’t need a ton of staging...
by mike | Sep 1, 2020 | The Art of The Craft, The Modeling Conversation |
Designing a layout is hard. We’re not civil engineers or traffic managers. Layout design articles tend to focus on arranging the maximum amount of track in a space, while leaving everything else to chance. I’m of the opinion the mindset, beliefs, even the language we...
by mike | Sep 12, 2018 | The P48 Experience |
When you understand the true size of the real world, it’s obvious how little one can actually include in model form. Just to nail the point again: in 1:48, my 15-inch wide by 96-inch long cameo is only 60 x 384 scale feet and that’s just fine by me. With this project...
by mike | Mar 30, 2018 | Storytelling, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience |
How do you choose between two or more equally compelling options? That’s the situation a number of us will face at some point in this work. Two of my friends are dealing with this now and a third will soon. This post was prompted by Craig’s comment on my What Do You...
