07-08-2010, 11:25 AM
The discussion from the past with which I take umbrage is the "Unless you model a specific prototype, you are not a serious model railroader."
It seems to me that if you study 1:1 scale railroads to the point where you've developed a ficticious road that is so convincing in name, color scheme, locomotive and revenue rolling stock classifications and numbering systems, geographic route(s) traveled, geography/terrain modeled, cities/towns/villages represented, and then taken the time to study the weathering patterns and colors of the 1:1 scale world and taken the trouble to paint your models accordingly, you are, in fact a serious model railroader!
In my book, if you run pristine models of a specific prototype railroad, "brand new right out of the paint shop" models behind beautifully detailed, rivit-counted prototypes that resemble builder's photographs, you are a serious collector of scale models of "Whatever" Railroad's equipment, that you happen to run on rails through a representation of an unrealistically clean and manicured real world!
There!
TAKE THAT!
It seems to me that if you study 1:1 scale railroads to the point where you've developed a ficticious road that is so convincing in name, color scheme, locomotive and revenue rolling stock classifications and numbering systems, geographic route(s) traveled, geography/terrain modeled, cities/towns/villages represented, and then taken the time to study the weathering patterns and colors of the 1:1 scale world and taken the trouble to paint your models accordingly, you are, in fact a serious model railroader!
In my book, if you run pristine models of a specific prototype railroad, "brand new right out of the paint shop" models behind beautifully detailed, rivit-counted prototypes that resemble builder's photographs, you are a serious collector of scale models of "Whatever" Railroad's equipment, that you happen to run on rails through a representation of an unrealistically clean and manicured real world!
There!
TAKE THAT!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln