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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Big_Boy_4005 Maybe part of the problem comes from the society in which we live. We have become so accustomed to everything happening so fast, instant gratification, that we have forgotten how to be patient. The question you have to ask yourself is:<h1>DID I HAVE FUN???</h1> That's supposed to be why we take up hobbies in the first place. [/quote] Truer words have never been spoken. When I got back into the hobby 15 years ago,I joined an established club. We read magazines and books, and rolled up our sleeves and dug into some real messes. Then we read some more, and made more messes. [:p]Some of it looked like crap.[xx(] Some of it had more promise[:I]. We learned what worked for us and what didn't. Everytime we found something that worked, we made it ours, and moved on from there. Back in the early days, there was some talk about "someday getting our Railroad in MR would be cool". But we knew that was still a way off. Years later, we are about to be published [:D](GMR 2005) Most folks (laymen) who see our layout make comments like " you guys are so talented" or " I could never do that". That's a bunch of Bull! [:(!] Get out of that armchair, get your hands dirty and see what you CAN do! I cannot tell you the amount of folks I have met over the years who started in this hobby with a simple loop around the Christmas tree, and SLOWLY moved into the hobby. Now they are doing exquisite modeling and have beautiful layouts of thier own. Don't think everything you do will turn out as it does in the pages of MR. Nothing I ever did turned out exactly that way either! Use MR as a guide, like a flashlight in the night. Don't think for a second that MR just runs in and shoots a few snapshots for those articles either. It took DAYS of preparations for our photo shoot, hours for the actual shoot itself, and then a return visit for some reshoots. A lot of the effort goes into getting perfect pictures. Not to make it seem that they are unattainable goals, but to inspire the reader to reach higher in thier own efforts. The really amazing part of it is, for every layout Kalmbach features in any of its pages, they were all built by former "newbies".[:0] Folks just like you and me, who through trial and error[banghead], and with advice from friends, got out of an armchair and worked at a result.[^]
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