Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

[TMo]

Thanks Charlie! Still not sure about the talent part - if I have a recommendation on scenery, I'd say try something and try to improve on it, but never give up the notion of saying "Why don't I just remove it all and start over!" and knowing the second time will be better because you would have learned from mistakes. Maybe the talent comes more from seeing a blank canvas and visualizing the way I want it (eventually) to look. For Mud Run, it was seeing the aerial photos and tagging things I wanted to include in the scene. Since I had a prototype scene, I had a basic premise of where everything goes and where I needed to place scenic emphasis. For freelanced railroads, I think placement and emphasis might be tougher, and I might fall back on finding some real-life scenes to mimic.

As far as time goes, it's really only done in spurts of a few hours, and (just as in any project), breaking the thing down into logical and manageable chunks. It is cool though to go back and time and see the progress. Mud Run's been cool because I get to share progress with people other than my wife and my father-in-law who are typically the only ones that visit more than occasionally. I get charged to finish this project and move on to new stuff similar to what other Big Blue members are focused on. As much as I have pooh-poohed the internet over the years, there are occasionally good things you run into that make the nuisances worthwhile.