09-30-2011, 09:50 AM
By the way, GEC, have you looked at Peter Feigenbaum's work? You can find some of it at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.vestaldesign.com/projects/modelrr/">http://www.vestaldesign.com/projects/modelrr/</a><!-- m --> and <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://sweet-station.com/blog/2008/07/peter-feigenbaum/">http://sweet-station.com/blog/2008/07/peter-feigenbaum/</a><!-- m -->
I think there's some similarity here in what both of you are (or in Peter's case, were) trying to accomplish. He built a layout in his parents' basement while still in high school that showed enormous talent, as you can see in the links. Then he went off to Yale (and model trains in the Ivy League is sort of the-thing-which-is-not) and studied architecture, and now works at an architectural firm and has a rock n roll band. The problem is that he decided (he told me in an e-mail) that basically those things didn't mix with model trains, so he's more or less left the hobby. I think when I e-mailed him earlier this year, it reminded him that he had a web site for his teenage layout, and he took it down. But you can still find his stuff on the web.
He took structures off his layout and assembled them into art "installations" which he displayed in New York galleries. Not every modeler is going to do this, but it's certainly an example of how layout components built when you're living at home can be re-used later. It's also an example of how smaller layout components can be taken outdoors for photography, which is much easier there.
Come to think of it, here's a scene on my layout that was directly inspired by Peter Feigenbaum's work:
[albumimg]4088[/albumimg]
I still need to add graffiti to the building.
I think there's some similarity here in what both of you are (or in Peter's case, were) trying to accomplish. He built a layout in his parents' basement while still in high school that showed enormous talent, as you can see in the links. Then he went off to Yale (and model trains in the Ivy League is sort of the-thing-which-is-not) and studied architecture, and now works at an architectural firm and has a rock n roll band. The problem is that he decided (he told me in an e-mail) that basically those things didn't mix with model trains, so he's more or less left the hobby. I think when I e-mailed him earlier this year, it reminded him that he had a web site for his teenage layout, and he took it down. But you can still find his stuff on the web.
He took structures off his layout and assembled them into art "installations" which he displayed in New York galleries. Not every modeler is going to do this, but it's certainly an example of how layout components built when you're living at home can be re-used later. It's also an example of how smaller layout components can be taken outdoors for photography, which is much easier there.
Come to think of it, here's a scene on my layout that was directly inspired by Peter Feigenbaum's work:
[albumimg]4088[/albumimg]
I still need to add graffiti to the building.