Quote from: Fred Klein on June 01, 2025, 04:09:51 PMP51, with the quality of modeling I've seen in your articles, all I can say is that I hope your hands stay steady and your eyesight clear because I've been inspired by your work and look forward to lots more inspiration.Thanks very much, Fred.
Quote from: Fred Klein on June 02, 2025, 01:31:01 PMI'm really not too much into scenery but since I'm modeling a portion of the FEC Kissimmee Valley Extension which happened to run just a couple of miles from where I live (long before my time - the right-of-way was abandoned in 1947) and this is part of Florida's prairie, I don't have to worry about mountains and all that.That sounds really interesting, as I have not even heard of many people modeling any lines in Florida.
I grew up along the old Seaboard mainline through North Florida (a very uninspiring place to grow up as a train buff) and I have never heard of anyone modelling that. Piney scrub flats would be really tough to model for scenery anyway, I'd bet.