12-22-2022, 04:45 AM
Thanks for the compliment Charlie, but I don't know about the talent part. I try a lot of things and try to repeat the things that work and discard what doesn't. To me, that's not really talent. I'm also trying to replicate (or a better word for that is mimic) something that already exists. In my mind, I guess I like to show what can be done by a guy who doesn't consider himself to be "artistic". I'm simply playing around with a bunch of different materials and trying to combine them in different ways to achieve an end goal. Most of the techniques I've hijacked from others - I'd be at a complete loss without Dave Frary's "Model Railroad Scenery" for instance. If anything, I just hope my success spurs others to experiment. I almost wrote "Be brave!", but it's more like "Don't be afraid to try something." I think that's what makes our hobby great.
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