Finding a Purpose
Whenever I begin a new project I try to find someone who has done it before. Someone who has built the same kit or fixed the same engine or figured out the right paint color for stainless steel. It always helps to learn from others’ experiences. But many times I fail to find a good reference. Either my interests are so weird that no one else is building what I build, or they aren’t writing about their projects publicly. And so this blog is born. If I am looking for this kind of information, I bet others are too. My goal in creating this is to share interesting projects and modeling techniques in the hope that I can help out anyone who is working on something similar. My modeling interests heavily slant towards steam engines and first generation diesels, and just about all of my work is HO scale. However, I believe that most modeling techniques are relevant across scales and eras. One of my “hobbies” within this hobby is finding beat...