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Somewhere in all of that (I'm not gonna bother to actually dig out the quote) someone said that there is nothing to be learned from a Furlow article, since he models fantasy. I would beg SO MUCH to differ with this; if you find that there is truly nothing to learn from his layouts, then you have reached the stub-end of your journey through this marvelous hobby, and you better hope there's a turntable so that you can get back to the mainline. The pictures of his layouts are wonderful compositions, because he plans them that way; how many "serious" prototype modellers conceptualize their layout plan, scenery, and details so that they work together as a powerful visual composition? Isn't this a useful critical vantage point, even if one is a dedicated prototype modeler? Sure, for some the lessons to be learned (in this case visual composition) might not matter that much, because of their particular hobby interests. But I can assure you that the photos that get printed in MR are judged on their compositional quality, as well as other critieria, and so it follows that if one wants to see more "serious" model railroads published, then those layout builders better learn some of these lessons that Furlow has to teach us. <br /> <br />Iain Rice is one of the current contributors I can point to who has learned from Furlow, and it was the stunning photos of his shelf layout that got me to read the whole article about Proto-87 standards... even though I model in N-scale and have "nothing to learn" from it.
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