I want advice on building mountain scenery. Got any?
Step away from the keyboard and run your trains.[;)]
utilize PATIENCE!!!
STEP AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD. Stop posting stupid, meaningless threads and go do your homework.
About time someone said something.
He has been here two days and has almost more posts then me.
Use the search engine and READ the messages that already exist instead of posting. Learn how to spell, use proper capitalization, and proper punctuation.
My advice -
Ignore the rudeness of some of these guys, kid. If you have a question, go ahead and post it. Anyone that doesn’t want to read it doesn’t have to.
One real bit of advice:
You’ve been asking a lot of “personal preference” type questions, and that’s fine, but give yourself some time to develop your own preferences. Listening to those of others may help you get started in the hobby, but give yourself the lattitude to follow your own preferences as they develop (and they will develop), and don’t be afraid to tear something out and try it another way if you get the inclination.
This hobby is very personal, at its core - it’s whatever YOU want to make of it. For me personally these days, it’s a rose-colored-glasses trip to the 1930s and 40s (my parents’ childhood years), along the rails where I grew up. It wasn’t always - in years past it was, variously, modern era heavy freight trains in the west, high-Rockies narrow gauge, and conquering the Cascades with Jim Hill and the Great Northern. For you it might become exact-scale modeling, Thomas the Tank Engine chasing his tail around a loop of track, or anything in between or off in a totally different direction.
From my perspective, there’s only one way to model railroad wrong, and that’s to model the way others tell you you should, rather than the way you want to.
For whatever it’s worth.
Brush and floss daily.
Start an IRA (Individual Retirement Account, not Irish Republican Army) and convince your parents and relatives to add to it. They will praise your financial acumen. Spend your own money on trains.
Don’t take any wooden nickels.
Look both ways before crossing the street.
Go back an re-read Mark Brunton’s post. That’s some of the best advice I’ve seen in a while.
Thanks, Mark. I’ve got my prefernces, like no steam, just diesels. I want to get advice from guys who have been in the hobby for a while, and if some new guy to the hobby clicks on this, he will already know this stuff from reading the posts.
This is the best thing I’ve read in a long while. There are to many people, both on these forums and life in general who will tell you how YOU should enjoy the hobby. Do as you please, enjoy the trains.
Magnus
More advice - DON’T change your original post to make it completely different from the original. Your original post said you were looking for advice, any advice - NOT advice on how to make a mountain. Nothing liking re-writing history to make it look good for you.
This I have to agree with. It sends the wrong message. It do not make you look serious.
Magnus
My advice would be to ask specific questions. Something that you are apparently heeding by changing the original post. Even that question is a bit broad.
This is a great place to get excellent modelling advice. People will put time and effort into composing detailed answers if the questions are well composed and sincere.
Also use the search engine. On your subject of mountains you will find many threads detailing methods like foam, cardboard strips etc.
Jeese guys:
I posed something sarcastic last week and got my hand slapped by the moderator.
That is not a complaint. I deserved it. I was having a bad morning and hit the send button without thinking it through.
But I think this thread is beneath us. If somebody asks a dumb question, ignor it, and it will be on page 3 in a day.
Consider that perhaps, he is just trying to participate in the conversation, rather than actually seeking advise.
Mark has given some very good advice. I know the rest are just joking around. You are young and eager for knowledge of this hobby.
Scenery is so much more of an art form. People will percieve their scenery, area, colors etc differently than the next guy. Yes there are some basic methods. I use all sorts of methods pending what it is I am doing and also what I feel at the time. There is no set way to accomplish scenery— Only guidelines.
Check out Dave Frary’s website. He offers some great tips on all forms of scenery construction. The lastest book as well as his DVDs are helpful to even some of us well worn and “maybe experienced” guys. For some reason I can’t paste the link. Check out Blue Ribbon Models.
Here is the Dave Frary link. You can ususally get the book for less on Amazon. It is an excellent primer with all sorts of techniques. Well worth the money spent IMO.
Well-said, PV, and thanks for saying it with a personal realization and conviction. There is too much vicarious living going on in some ways on this forum, and perhaps a couple of us could take something from your post. If the poster seems to need some guidance, and one is willing to make it a positive contribution, do so; otherwise, treat him like an annoying poster and just pass his threads by. He gets the message or he doesn’t.
It’s all a matter of how we want to invest in our own culture here. Do we want to encourage problem posters until we feel we are legitimate in our approach to slamming him, or could we take the higher road and do some off-line coaching? Do we want to be the surly and arrogant guys we seem to like to complain are encountered at train shows, or do we try to be friendly and shape some of the newcomers so that they get the benefit of a good experience?
You know how I do it.
-Crandell
Yep…I can think of a few X members in the past that did stuff like that…Hmmmm…
Thank you Phoebe Vet.
JK check your PM