Change modeling focus?
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I've always intended on creating a believable fictional railroad, not based to specifically on any particular towns or cities.  Why?  I feel if I try model an actual line, I will get caught up in rivet counting and inaccuracies will bug me enough that I won't get anything done.  Plus, nobody can point out how I did something wrong.  Thus, for many years I have settled on Southern Arizona mining railroads in the 1910-1930 time frame.  Generic towns based on real towns and generic equipment that has the same general feel as what was really used in the area.

I haven't done a whole lot of modeling for the past few years due to family commitments, but I also feel like I am losing my "itch".  Right now I feel more like just "running trains".  Of course, I no longer have a permanent layout, and joining a club is not something I want to do right now.  Another drawback of a fictional railroad is the custom lettering and painting of rolling stock vs just pulling something out of a box, adding a little weathering, and rolling it down the rails.  

Anyone else face this crossroads where you give up on the direction you have been going for years and go a different way?
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Change modeling focus? - by nachoman - 02-09-2021, 04:52 PM
RE: Change modeling focus? - by jim currie - 02-09-2021, 08:18 PM
RE: Change modeling focus? - by doctorwayne - 02-10-2021, 12:18 AM
RE: Change modeling focus? - by ezdays - 02-10-2021, 07:39 AM
RE: Change modeling focus? - by Tyson Rayles - 02-10-2021, 09:49 AM
RE: Change modeling focus? - by Charlie B - 02-10-2021, 11:17 AM
RE: Change modeling focus? - by nachoman - 02-10-2021, 12:26 PM
RE: Change modeling focus? - by Mountain Man - 02-10-2021, 01:34 PM
RE: Change modeling focus? - by Mountain Man - 03-12-2021, 04:09 PM

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