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It really depends what you call freelance ... .... the majority of modellers I've met or spoken with over the yeras don't atempt to model a specific place. As they are not actually modelling a bit of a prototype this is freelancing. Its actually very very rare for someone to try and model a bit of a specific place with any kind of accuracy, for the simple reason you need an awful lotta space!!! Both my layout at home and the layout of the club I belong to (Alton Model Railway Group [url]http://www.altonmrg.co.uk[/url]) fit into this type of freelancing. My home layout is a fictional bit of the Maine Central although I run prototype 50s era MEC rolling stock, nowhere on my layout itself is prototypical - I just hope to catch a flavour of the area the MEC ran through - one day when its finished! You can check out progress on my web page if you feel curious enough. The club layout ([url]http://www.altonmrg.co.uk/PineBluffs/default.htm[/url]) is even more freelance its a completely fictious Colorado short line, it has its own road name The Pine Bluffs & Ceda Falls Railroad and paint scheme (when any of us actually get round to painting anything), the towns it runs through are completely invented, but the diesels are stock units and the steamers based on photographs of real engines that worked out in the west. Whilst many of us will invent model buildings (with or without a quantity of research before launching into it) inventing freelance rolling stock and engines is a different matter altogether, as orsonroy says its not much done these days. To get a "freelance" engine to look believable is much more difficult than it first looks. The only real preserve of this type of freelancing is among narrow gauge modellers, probably because so much weird and wacky stuff did actaully exist in real life on the narrow gauges! Bitish narrow guagers seem to be at it most, some models look believable - others don't.
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