number one dead giveaway

[ngauger]

If we strike the right balance of stuff, the mind will fill in the gaps while it is distracted with the more spectacular aspects of a model or scene.

.. and THAT is exactly how I learned to model..

An example In NASCAR:

About 30 years ago, Junior Johnson brought a car out to Darlington Raceway. It had a different design to the front bumper. It was well within the lines of being legal. Richard Petty asked him what he was doing? Why the metal??

Junior simply replied: "You see how NASCAR and everyone else is concentrating on it? I don't want them looking at anything else!"

The same can be said for modeling. My layout has gimmicks and fun stuff and noone seems to notice that it only has a few engines (three) and about 10 structures on it. The scenery and the structures take up most of the 13 X 9 layout.

Now granted, the footprints of each of these is 1 ft square or larger so it does look crowded. But there is not much detail at all...