Dan, if you’d care to share your e-mail address in a PM, I can send you a bunch of GERN Industries advertising idiocy…it usually takes five e-mails, due to the attachments. After that, when my brother creates new stuff, it gets sent out to all the other GERNies, too.
I can read the PMs I receive, but a cannot reply to them - this situation has been ongoing for a couple of years.
Wayne
Doug said:
“Non fine detailed layouts are great. I think the eye sees consistency and is fine with that. When I place a finely detailed model amonsgt non finely detailed models, my eye longs for more of the fine details. Can’t go back, so to speak. But that’s me.”
I agree with that, consistancy is more important than fine detail. Quality has to be there though.
I personally like depth. I totally get your point about operating, making the trains the focus. But I will always spend far more time building than operating, so the layout beyond the moving trains is more important to me than the op session. I even have some track areas that aren’t powered, and some that even if they are, the cars posed there will seldom, if ever move. Like dioramas among the live scenes. That’s just me, though. Dan
Firstly, thanks for coming up with a Filosophy Phiday topic, Brent.
I’m not sure whether I’m addressing the topic properly or just ramblin’ on, Bear fashion, but I tend to think that with in dealing with “the margins” all model railroaders’ practice, knowingly or not, “the suspension of disbelief”.
Now, as the replies show, the methods and degrees of suspending disbelief are not only varied but are very much down to individual choice, and rightly so. Problems can and do arise when a viewer, especially another model railroader with a differing or lesser Suspension of Disbelief. As, my Grandma said, “If you have nothing good to say, say nothing!”
I rather suspect that the Bear is lucky (?) having an almost childlike suspension of disbelief because while skill sets and abilities certain
Yep, that’s in my nature and I love to instigate complex conversations around the dinner table and at hockey night when the friends are all over. Rum or Scotch makes us have all the solutions in the end.[(-D]
Sorry for abandoning you all and not responding sooner. Friends had a family emergency and a few families (close friends) had to leave town in a hurry to say unexpected goodbye to their Grandpa before he passes. He is 400KM away so I am watching the farm(s) literally.
Thanks for all your contributions.
No worries Brent, the responses so far quickly show how this matters a lot to some, and not at all to others, which I expected right away.
Well, this comes back to the idea of fine details.
You can finely detail the ROW. Look at Lance Mindheims shelf layout blogs and you’ll see all sorts of little details I would never think to add on a layout. It would take a lot of time, IMO.
To me, they look like dioramas where much of the time is spent building and detailing rather than operating trains. So the diorama concept doesn’t have a minimum size.
Detail is not the same as depth. I probably do neither. But I’ll do more when I’m retired and have more time. Like OP, I’ll probably focus on detailing the structures.
Maybe its about how much time you enjoy building and detailing the nonrailroady parts of t