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Tony T Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Sad about the rail layout. Good advice to pre-plan for removal at a later date. Your Backyard Flyer is looking great...I love the layers of detail you have incorporated, including the leaves. Wonderful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnReid Posted July 8, 2011 Author Share Posted July 8, 2011 More on modules. A few posts ago I mentioned something about building layouts and large dioramas using modules. I was back in the same hobby store yesterday and made some more inquiries .Evidently,they had two scales on display there "N" (very small scale) and "H" (larger).Someone had the foresight to do the "N" scale in modules and they moved it out in a single morning.Unfortunately the "H" scale will have to be busted up.They are going to try to preserve portions of it if they can. With all the modern electrical fixtures ,quick dis-connects etc... there should be no excuse for this in the future.With a little planning in the beginning this hassle could have been avoided . On a more personal level I am sure that a lot of families would love to be spared the agony of putting Uncle Joe's or Grandpa Jim's layout in the garbage because it is just too big and difficult to move.A lot of these decisions have to be made quickly at a very bad time in people's lives and some very fine work and in some cases real artwork is lost forever. Modules could be built as separate dioramas each with its own little story and complete scene that when put together makes for an even bigger story. Take nice overall pics of the huge layout as it once was and then create a picture book for your each modular section that could go with it to its new home.Even museums could make a very nice display of your work and put it in context for the viewer without have to find space for the whole thing. Maybe it is because I am going on 71 now and these things have become more important to me.We all get old some day and faster than you think,believe me.This may not be important to you now but maybe someday it will.Do your family a favor and plan ahead. Someday layouts will be as rare as old baseball cards are today and probably just as valuable.Lets face it we are in the golden age of modeling when old farts like me are realizing their boyhood dreams and have the money to do so.What I could buy with my allowance as a kid is history now.Times change rapidly today and a lot of stuff competes for our attention and money. Personally I don't do large layouts but I do large aircraft dioramas in modular form and donate them to Canada Aviation Museum.Even if there comes a time that that they no longer want them chances are the airplane models themselves will survive as historical examples or maybe in a future collectors home.I feel good to at least have given my stuff a survival plan. Nothing is forever but humans have since ancient times loved models of all kinds and probably will continue to do so.Kids never change and future imaginations will thank you for it and so will the memories of future older folk too . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JohnReid Posted July 11, 2011 Author Share Posted July 11, 2011 I have started a new thread over on The Aerodrome.com on building basic wood structures for dioramas.It is intended to be for modelers of all kinds who are not familiar with working with wood. I will in the future also put it up here as well ,when I get all the bugs worked out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnReid Posted July 11, 2011 Author Share Posted July 11, 2011 http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/models/53240-basic-wood-structures-dioramas.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JohnReid Posted July 24, 2011 Author Share Posted July 24, 2011 The following excerpt is from "The Road Not Taken" a poem by Robert Frost I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood,and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost. Courtesy of WSP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 That looks great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gasser59 Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 (edited) Man oh man is this a great visual story and such precision in scale building. Just found this thread and couldn't agree more on using modules. Future generations of modelers will be thankful. Great techniques and I can see myself doing dioramas as a hobby. Edited September 9, 2011 by gasser59 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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