What dont you like about this hobby

[MountainMan]

Some day, I want to build the "Disney version" of Verne's Nautilus, in 1:87 scale, in drydock!

It's been done, in larger scale than that.

The 1/60th model:


The Disney 1/10th model:

On the fantasy stuff, Malcolm Furlow had a large scale layout he named "Mexican Hat". It was featured in the September 2003 Model Railroader mag... kind of a wild west sort of thing. I searched the net and didn't find any photos of it. Anyone seen it?

I haven't seen the layout, but I have seen the article in the Sept. '03 MR. Trains, and towns, clinging to the faces of cliffs, with the trains in worse condition than the stone age relics laying all about.
I highly recommend studying Furlow, to see what too much weathering can produce. At the same time, however, there is a good degree of "art" there. Malcom has created a very interesting world , where, in this case, the "present/past" is the fantasy.[/quote]

Yes, he has, although some of it seemed overdone, as you pointed out. Still - it's his fantasy, so...?

There is another one that just made the NG&SLG, and which is currently housed at The Caboose in Denver and was displayed at the Modeler's convention in Denver dcently as well. Extremely well done.