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Let me start by saying that there is nothing wrong in creating a vintage layout, using old materials and making it up in the fashion of the 1950´s and 1960´s. I have seen layouts which certainly deserve my admiration. In a way, we all are "freelancing", whether we closely follow a specific prototype, do some "proto-lancing" or are complete freelancers. With the exception of maybe very few, none of us to completely make a scale copy of any stretch of the road we favor - space, time and many force us to make concessions. So most layouts appear to be proto-lanced, due to the modeler´s licence we have to apply. As for complete freelancing - why not? as long as we follow 1:1 practice, our "could have been" road is quite OK. As for my own layout, it´ll be freelance all the way, but with a story behind that makes sense. A true, "well it really could have been" layout. Does that me a "(you fill in the #)"
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