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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #195 on: June 01, 2013, 09:43:56 AM »
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OR...the monochromatic side could be Kansas in the 30's....and the Technicolor side could be an imaginary land with flying monkeys!!!....The ballast there would be bright yellow!!

There's no possible way David could ever do that.

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #196 on: June 01, 2013, 11:56:53 AM »
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Yeah...  David modeling Kansas.  Unthinkable...
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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #197 on: June 02, 2013, 12:11:44 AM »
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DKS couldn't possibly accomplish that!
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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #198 on: June 03, 2013, 09:25:22 AM »
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Yikes, I hope I can live up to your expectations! Especially when being compared to the likes of John Allen...

You already have, multiple times.  :D
Speaking for myself, you are the John Allen of my generation.


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« Reply #199 on: June 03, 2013, 01:13:21 PM »
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You already have, multiple times.  :D
Speaking for myself, you are the John Allen of my generation.

Gotta say +1 on this one.  I always really enjoy your stuff (though I did live in Jersey, so that could explain it...).  :D

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #200 on: June 03, 2013, 05:40:08 PM »
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Wrestling with architectural style: http://1-160.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-challenge.html

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #201 on: June 03, 2013, 10:40:37 PM »
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Do the boring thing. Seriously, let the execution be the outstanding feature and model the mundane.

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #202 on: June 04, 2013, 06:48:23 AM »
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+1.  I like the juxtaposition.  Architectural beauty is in the execution, not necessarily the design.

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #203 on: June 04, 2013, 08:57:46 AM »
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Do the boring thing. Seriously, let the execution be the outstanding feature and model the mundane.

I second that motion.



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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #204 on: June 04, 2013, 09:27:52 AM »
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+1.  I like the juxtaposition.  Architectural beauty is in the execution, not necessarily the design.

Great point.

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #205 on: June 04, 2013, 09:36:41 AM »
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I love mundane.  The more mundane the better.  Honestly, the world around us is mundane.

Case in point, if you were modeling present day you'd score a lot more points with a Walmart than with some whackadoodle ramshackle board-built industry that looks like it belongs on the set of the Popeye movie.

I should think a DPM city done with DKS' usual talent for exquisitely nailing the mundane would quickly look less like DPM and more like the real thing.

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #206 on: June 04, 2013, 10:17:01 AM »
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I love mundane.  The more mundane the better.  Honestly, the world around us is mundane.

Case in point, if you were modeling present day you'd score a lot more points with a Walmart than with some whackadoodle ramshackle board-built industry that looks like it belongs on the set of the Popeye movie.

I should think a DPM city done with DKS' usual talent for exquisitely nailing the mundane would quickly look less like DPM and more like the real thing.

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #207 on: June 04, 2013, 01:29:10 PM »
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I love mundane.  The more mundane the better.  Honestly, the world around us is mundane.

Case in point, if you were modeling present day you'd score a lot more points with a Walmart than with some whackadoodle ramshackle board-built industry that looks like it belongs on the set of the Popeye movie.

I should think a DPM city done with DKS' usual talent for exquisitely nailing the mundane would quickly look less like DPM and more like the real thing.

I second the above motion.


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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #208 on: June 04, 2013, 01:38:43 PM »
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Yes.  If you're striving for the flavor of the prototype, and that flavor is plain vanilla, then you'd be foolish to add a bunch of butter pecan.  Although, a bit of Tin Roof might be appropriate in this case...

Dammit.  Now I'm hungry.

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #209 on: June 09, 2013, 09:39:14 AM »
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Just read the blog post Re: the corner buildings, why not model them abandoned? dirt is the same regardless of era.
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