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| Posted: Tue Apr 19th, 2011 05:24 am |
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pipopak
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Take a look at this picture taken at a Cuban wharf in 1904.
There are hardly two wood pieces the same size !
http://www.shorpy.com/node/10326?size=_original
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20th, 2011 01:16 am |
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wclm
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Great shot.
What a mess.
Went into the Shorpy Site,
and there is some even greater stuff there.
Clif K
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20th, 2011 01:44 am |
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pipopak
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Love those pictures.
Detail is GREAT.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20th, 2011 02:49 pm |
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Herb Kephart
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You can spend hours at Shorpy !
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20th, 2011 03:10 pm |
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pipopak
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What I like most about the Site is that it shows you how things were THEN.
I personally find most (if not all) layouts set in that era, grossly OVER weathered !
If you are modeling, say, 1920s, everything built that year was NEW,
and everything else was maintained.
But you see any layout set in 1920, and trains are rolling wrecks,
structures are falling apart, and cars are junkyard rejects.
While the craftsmanship is superb,
I find it hardly realistic.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21st, 2011 12:10 am |
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wclm
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Jose
Got to agree with you on that one.
I myself fell into that trap.
I originally liked the weathering, and still do,
but now I look at it differently.
I do have things
that look as if no one cared what they looked liked
and never cleaned anything up.
I see great things done, and then you look closer,
and you see weathered wood inside buildings, in use,
with wood grain that looks like scenes from the Canyonlands.
Just my opinion,
and you know what they say about opinions and toilet paper.
Clif K
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21st, 2011 12:21 am |
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Rod Hutchinson
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Jose.
I have to agree also.
I am sometimes struck by the success of
heavily weathered & rundown models, in competitions.
Whilst the well cared for look in models,
is mostly overlooked as winners.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21st, 2011 01:02 am |
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W C Greene
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I don't really worry about weathering,
Mother Nature does that for me quite well.
As for junky & funky in the '20s,
I agree, things were relatively new then.
That's why I have "pushed" my layout into 1950 or so,
due to my love for that '49 Merc.
And I was given a nice model of a 1950 MGTD,
and being an MG nut, I had to put it on the layout also.
Now, when I find a nice '56 Chebby...
Woodie
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21st, 2011 01:59 am |
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Herb Kephart
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Got to agree with Jose, Clif and Rod.
Too much weathering is overdone, IMO.
Besides, the twenties were a time
when equipment was taken care of,
more than it is today.
Herb
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21st, 2011 11:59 am |
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Well, this is a pleasant change,
discussing modeling 'the norm'.
It seems that modeling too often leans toward
the gimmicky exaggerated worn out look.
Weathered, but maintained as in ordinary everyday use,
is (for me) more appealing.
Any railroad with the sort of broken down,
and downright dangerous equipment,
often seen on some model railroads,
would soon be out of business.
Logging is a classic example,
where the true condition of equipment is overlooked (or ignored)
in favour of the 'cute' caricture, of the shoe-string operation.
Companies then, as now, realised you can't turn a profit,
if your equipment keeps breaking all the time.
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