Holland Southwest Building 4

[doctorwayne]

I just think it's a shame to model beautifully detailed locomotives and rolling stock and set them against a background of generic box buildings with no character. Then again, the trains of today are as generic as the buildings.

Then shame on me. :oops: I hate it when that happens.

A lot of this depends on one's individual interests. Some folks like to model that which they see, or what they remember from an earlier time in their own life. Others prefer times longer past - the '50s are popular with many because diesels and steam can be modelled on the same layout, and many of our older Members have fond memories of that time. Others choose times even further back, usually necessitating some research (and in some cases, that becomes the prime interest, ahead of a layout. None, of course, is the only correct path to take, nor is any one of them wrong, although, once we choose the one "right" for us, all the others become somewhat "less right". That may mean that we still are interested in them somewhat, or it may mean that we're totally bored with them. What someone else thinks of another's choice, though, should be immaterial to both the chooser and to the person with the dissenting opinion. Different strokes and all that.
For me, well-done modelling can make even the most mundane subject interesting.

Wayne