BigGRacing
Aka. Gary Russell
The detail is just amazing! The guys carrying lumber for rebuilding that building is a brilliant little detail!
Hey Gary, apologies for being so late with the thanks for the comment, but thanks. I do try to make scenes that reflect life as I see it. Figures are to me, one of the best ways to make a layout come to life, especially when they denote some action. Not all mine do, but I try to get some action into most viewing angles.The detail is just amazing! The guys carrying lumber for rebuilding that building is a brilliant little detail!
MOWboss - Thank you very much for your comment. I don't remember who said it, maybe it was me, but to me the layout is a stage, the trains are just actors passing through. I actually enjoy switching as much as building scenes, but it seems that I just haven't gotten to too many areas where there is industry yet in this thread!Willie
It's refreshing to see a layout with infrastructure; highways, parking lots, sidewalks with pedestrians,
alleyways and all those little things that bring a model rr to life.
Many, many years ago a respected modeler explained to me that a "great model RR layout" is one
where the scenes will entertain you WITHOUT any moving trains supplying a distraction. As testimony
to that standard you have not displayed one video of a moving train. And yet I'm sure that hundreds of
hours have been spent examining your photos (most without any train traffic).
I applaud you on an excellent job of presenting real life standards in miniature. You are proof that you can have
entertaining scenes and operational train traffic.
the layout is a stage, the trains are just actors passing through.
While his voice can be a bit grating at times, I like Rush quite a bit. Remember that I have quoted them before..."if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"Sorry Willie, I know you are not a fan of Geddy Lee's voice, but I couldn't resist!
I do too, and I'm not an enthusiastic fan of progressive rock, whatever that is.I like Rush quite a bit.
They are great lyricists!Remember that I have quoted them before..."if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"
Well, Merry Christmas there Internet elves and those who celebrate any holiday that sounds fun!
It's Troy again.
Here's one of my main characters, Punkin, the snarky talking cat, trying to be good until someone gives him a present.
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Health update: Still sleeping in the recliner. Whatever the virus going around, it's mostly a cold for me, but in a weird order of symptoms, I normally get runny nose, then sore throat, then chest congestion. On Day 4 I finally got the runny nose. Between trying to hack up both lungs to clear the chest yesterday, I ran through half a box of tissues.
Yesterday I felt run-down and slept a lot. About 8pm, I finally started to get some energy, and could slow down on the mucus pills.
Wife had it a month ago, but we're still limiting time together to just meals.
Heard from the daughter down in Indy that she's got the virus too. She's trying to keep her live-in boyfriend from getting it. This coming Saturday is wife's family get-together, and this would be the big debut of the boyfriend to the cousins and such. We'll see if that happens.
No gifts exchanged here. We agreed to stop doing the gift thing a few years ago. Daughter gets cash, and we pay her car insurance since she's still driving the hand-me-down Honda we gave her 10 years ago. She's thirty, so she's not too bad off on the gift thing.
I did get the wife a party-sized bag of M&Ms though. I know better than to not get a little something for her. With luck, she'll reciprocate with filled stocking later
For those of you worried about your churches combusting or falling in... Don't worry about it. I'm slightly pagan, mostly heathen, very unreligious (and a card-carrying Dudeist priest, as well as an ordained Pastafarian). I spent 20 years as a wedding photographer and attended wedding services in churches at least 200 times. No churches were harmed in all of my excursions. However, there was one priest that I expected to grow horns and breathe fire. But, that's a story for another day.
Aren’t they both your threads? It's all goodWas this intended for the Coffee Shop??
fixed it. ThanksWas this intended for the Coffee Shop??