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Hi Andy,

I just caught up with your build, and I am most impressed. It's always great to see a high rail layout so beautifully designed and realized. I love that it is so clean and spare. I know you have a lot of structures to add, but I hope you will preserve some of the openness- I think it really gives it a sense of space and distance. 

I especially like the simple light blue walls for the same reason. One's eye imagines the scenery extending on into infinity. Maybe that is why I've always enjoyed layouts in that stage where the track is laid but no scenery is done. Your eye fills in the rest.  It lets the engines and rolling stock be the stars of the show.

I have seen too many (99%?) modelers who make beautiful buildings and often pretty good 3D scenery and then paint the walls with foliage, mountains and clouds and the results are never up to the level of the built scenery- often glaringly so. Realistic painting is a different skill set and not as easy as it looks. Sometimes less is more.

Well, sorry, your beautiful layout inspired a little rant. I look forward to following your progress.

 

Added a few more details to the section house. I put some chairs with the table for the crew, some lockers, a work table on top of a couple of oil drums, a lamp and a few books on the desk, and a brass lamp and lantern courtesy of Andre from Riverleaf Models. Thank you Andre! I will add a coal bin for the stove. I already have the shovel. I will call Evan Designs on Monday to order the lighting.

Andy

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Andy,

This is some neat stuff. Even though I won't detail all of my buildings to this level, I feel like there should be some level of detail if a model is closer to the edge of your layout. If you're not going to do the inside then the structure itself should have it. When I watch all of these videos with HO and even N scalers doing this kind of detail, I say there is no excuse for me. 

Great work man, keep it coming.

Dave

I'm sorry you are having issues with the basement, Andy!  On the one hand, basements are ideal for layouts.  On the other hand, a lot of problems can happen in them.  I hope all is resolved soon with little cost.  Our older daughter and her husband have had a bad time with their 100+ year old basement, while the 1888 house I grew up in had relatively few problems even until we sold the house last winter.

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