Trees are Prototypes-2: American Sycamore

My favorite tree in the landscape has to be the American sycamore, with its massive trunk, branching structure and distinctive mottled bark. With common names like the planetree, buttonwood and buttonball-tree and reaching to heights of one hundred feet, the American...

Trees are prototypes too

Most of us wouldn’t think of scratchbuilding a locomotive without learning about the prototype first. Usually a modeler will want to have as much detailed info about a specific engine as possible, same with a freight car or structure. For a lot of modelers now,...