tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4293175883157636914.post8792117789440793452..comments2024-03-22T20:28:42.517+00:00Comments on Wood End and Beyond: Decluttering the mindChris Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17126638769396595508noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4293175883157636914.post-73738524518846948732020-06-02T14:22:18.772+01:002020-06-02T14:22:18.772+01:00I think there are strong crossovers between approa...I think there are strong crossovers between approaches to railway modelling and approaches in other creative arts and crafts. Some want to endlessly create much the same thing in much the same way because their pleasure is in The Making of something they think beautiful or worthy. Others want to dedicate their lives to one Great Project. Yet others want to explore new worlds and new...<br /><br />Sorry, got a bit distracted. I mean new subjects, new compositions, new techniques. <br /><br />If I were to ever get back into modelling I would be torn between the Talyllyn circa 1910, a French roadside metre gauge tramway, 3' gauge in Nevada, and a 42" gauge Chilean nitrate hauler with overhead electric boxcabs, and in the mdelling I'd try to incorporate as much as I could from my 12 years as a professional architectural modeller rather than go back to my adolescent hobby skills.<br /><br />The modelling motivation I find most alien is that of the nostalgic who only ever wants model their boyhood railway experience.Colinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04690742272982191327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4293175883157636914.post-36128328557175442172020-06-02T13:45:03.714+01:002020-06-02T13:45:03.714+01:00It is interesting that people have different appro...It is interesting that people have different approacches, and the factors involved. I can, and once did, imagine a life where a railway eveovled with me, preferably in the garden. Now i have a suitable garden but doubt I have enough active life left to see it evolve. I sort of get returning to a theme in an attemptto capture somethign different with each iteration.<br /><br />What I've never really understood is the fun in retaining a simple layout beyond its sell by date. That is whether you calculate the best before in terms of quality of modelling or a play factor.<br />James Finisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16351798531269786632noreply@blogger.com