Do any of you folks out there attempt to make your models match a particular prototype? I caught on to this concept several years ago and since then I'm hooked. It seems the more I seek out information to make these models the more interested I am in them. Now each model has a history, almost a life of its own.
I started out taking some photos of the grain elevators in my family's home town of Bottineau, North Dakota thinking maybe, someday, I'd make models of them. Once I ran through a roll of film, I sat down to sketch the remaining elements of the scene. Later, a train came along and for some reason, I began taking notes of the car numbers, paint scheme, some rudimentary comments on the type of car, etc. I bought another roll of film and began taking more photos. I finally ended up shooting two rolls of film that week and the photos have remained inspiring all these years.
Anyway, without getting too long winded, I finally created a web site to show what I've been working on in my spare time for the past 13 years. Admittedly, it's not much and in fact, it only represents maybe a quarter of my modeling efforts in that time.
Let me know what you think about the site, the concept of modeling a place in a week worth of time and the concept of modeling from the prototype in general.
Here's the link to my site: http://www.geocities.com/norfolksouthernhinose/Botno.html
I started out taking some photos of the grain elevators in my family's home town of Bottineau, North Dakota thinking maybe, someday, I'd make models of them. Once I ran through a roll of film, I sat down to sketch the remaining elements of the scene. Later, a train came along and for some reason, I began taking notes of the car numbers, paint scheme, some rudimentary comments on the type of car, etc. I bought another roll of film and began taking more photos. I finally ended up shooting two rolls of film that week and the photos have remained inspiring all these years.
Anyway, without getting too long winded, I finally created a web site to show what I've been working on in my spare time for the past 13 years. Admittedly, it's not much and in fact, it only represents maybe a quarter of my modeling efforts in that time.
Let me know what you think about the site, the concept of modeling a place in a week worth of time and the concept of modeling from the prototype in general.
Here's the link to my site: http://www.geocities.com/norfolksouthernhinose/Botno.html