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The animations alone would be a whole series of articles, and then there are the details like the flower pots and lily pads that most modelers never get to, not to mention you methods of mounting and lighting structures. The latter would be useful no matter the type of kit used to make the buildings.
Quote from: wm3798 on March 30, 2021, 10:10:06 PMQuote from: Point353 on March 30, 2021, 02:08:21 AMOne suggestion would be to do some investigation into what currently available building kits could be substituted for the out-of-production kits you used, in case any readers of the article might want to build a similar layout.Perhaps, also consider providing a list of readily available track pieces from Kato, Atlas and/or Bachmann that could be used to duplicate your track plan.That flies in the face of the layout's concept. The whole point is to have a layout featuring vintage favorites, but using them as the basis of some outstanding modeling. Apart from stroking the hand of the advertisers, I don't know why such references would be necessary at all. Especially since there a still gobs of these kits offered on the aftermarket, and the techniques used transcend what's available.LeeWow.No discredit to the high quality of the modeling was implied or intended.Evidently, everyone else has available to them a vast stockpile of half-century old unassembled building kits (and track) from which to draw upon and/or has no difficulty whatsoever locating such items in the aftermarket.I don't have such an inventory on hand and my attempts to source out-of-production items rarely meet with any success.My suggestion was intended to aid someone who might want build a similar layout, but using readily available off-the-shelf items without the need to scour secondary sources.Apparently, I was way off-base.Nevertheless, perhaps the magazine's publisher would like to see included a list of contemporary alternatives that are more likely to be procurable from their advertisers.It would be interesting to know their position in that regard.
Quote from: Point353 on March 30, 2021, 02:08:21 AMOne suggestion would be to do some investigation into what currently available building kits could be substituted for the out-of-production kits you used, in case any readers of the article might want to build a similar layout.Perhaps, also consider providing a list of readily available track pieces from Kato, Atlas and/or Bachmann that could be used to duplicate your track plan.That flies in the face of the layout's concept. The whole point is to have a layout featuring vintage favorites, but using them as the basis of some outstanding modeling. Apart from stroking the hand of the advertisers, I don't know why such references would be necessary at all. Especially since there a still gobs of these kits offered on the aftermarket, and the techniques used transcend what's available.Lee
One suggestion would be to do some investigation into what currently available building kits could be substituted for the out-of-production kits you used, in case any readers of the article might want to build a similar layout.Perhaps, also consider providing a list of readily available track pieces from Kato, Atlas and/or Bachmann that could be used to duplicate your track plan.
@DKS, One of the aspects of your talent that I find intriguing is your ability to take anything and give it a new "look". It is your creative approach and ability to look at the mundane offerings in this scale and find new ways to make them fit your vision, improve them and give them more life than was originally intended. IMHO, this "out of the box" creative process will inspire many more modelers than an article on any one of the technical aspects of this layout, all of which would be helpful to a percentage of readers. The concept of the retro layout is very cool. To see it through to the end is inspiring. The modeling skills and multiple scene details speak for themselves and make me want to aspire to improve. But for me, capturing this creative process and demonstrating it to the rest of us is part of the genius of this layout thread.Didn't want to throw my opinion out here to distract the thread but couldn't resist. FWIW.
Of course, another alternative for the article would be to present it using a typical layout presentation - not covering the construction or kits used, but covering just the (finished ) layout. Several close-up shots of the mini-scenes, overall bird's-eye photo, control panel, possibly the underside of the layout, and maybe a track plan. Nice and simple. The title could also be simple: Newport & Rock Falls: A Retro Micro-Layout
Article is done. Photography will commence shortly.
Did you enjoy writing it? I hope you did.
Try Continental Modeller? https://peco-uk.com/pages/continental-modeller#CM-1Has it got any Peco products in it?
Yes, and it came together quite quickly. 1,500 words.No Peco products. It's already been accepted by Pamela Clapp for N Scale magazine.
I think if one looked hard enough, one could perhaps find plenty of examples of overtly European architecture here in America—Princeton, NJ, comes to mind—
One of the first things I did after getting back into it was retrofit the passenger cars with flicker-free lighting circuits. They're a very simple design consisting of four components: a full-wave bridge rectifier, a 1,000 mfd 16 volt capacitor, a 1k-ohm resistor, and a 3mm warm white LED. No matter how dirty the track and/or wheels may be, and regardless of track polarity, the LEDs glow consistently; in fact, after removing the power, they continue to glow for several seconds. For an authentic retro look, I positioned the LEDs right where the light bulbs were originally located. Hard to tell the difference.
Aside from the much greater life of the LEDs (and perhaps excluding the 1K resistor and changing the value of the capacitor to account for any increase in power consumption), would that circuit work as well for the original light bulbs?
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