by mike | Oct 4, 2016 | Storytelling, The Art of The Craft, The Missing Conversation, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience |
In business speak it’s called the paradox of expertise. That mindset where a leader or company stops being curious, stops exploring new ideas, stops asking hard questions because we know everything there is to know about how this market works or how things are done...
by mike | Sep 27, 2016 | Pieces of The Puzzle, Storytelling, The Art of The Craft, The Missing Conversation, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience
If there is any agenda behind this blog, it’s to offer a counterpoint to the mainstream view. However, I don’t sit here week after week thinking of ways to be contrary, I simply write about how I see and approach the work. I’ve been active in this craft since...
by mike | Sep 20, 2016 | Modeling Techniques, Pieces of The Puzzle, The Missing Conversation, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience |
Many of the layout design conventions we take for granted were developed in HO scale. As the most popular modeling scale, HO receives the bulk of press coverage and therefore, these design conventions are well entrenched in our thinking. For HO and N scales, the...
by mike | Sep 6, 2016 | General News, Storytelling, The Art of The Craft, The Modeling Conversation |
I don’t focus on the business or overly promote the books on the blog, because who wants to read constant self-promotions all the time? I wouldn’t so why put you guys through that? Instead I want to share a bit about what this work means to me. What I strive to do is...
by mike | Aug 30, 2016 | Storytelling, The Art of The Craft, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience |
Words and images are powerful things. An image not only conveys the appearance of an object, it can also evoke an emotion. Looking at the image above, do you really need to know what kind of benchwork or scenery material underlies that scene? Does it make a difference...