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[quote user="Dave Vollmer"]Okay, okay...  I know other people have already discussed this, but I have to toss in my hat![bow]Pelle Soeborg continues to be one of my biggest MR heroes.Consider for a moment that: 1. I don't heap slobbering praise very often and 2. my modeling interests couldn't be farther from Pelle's.  I model Pennsylvania in the steam/diesel transition era in N scale.  He models the western US in the modern era in HO.  So why I am I starting a thread about him?Pelle embodies everything I respect both in a modeler and as a plausible layout.  His article this month was dead-on.  It's not the "amount" of details that makes or breaks the layout, but the right details in the right places.  I'm an East Coast guy, but I've traveled all over the beautiful American West, and no modeler in my opinion has absolutely nailed the Western scene like Pelle.  Add to that praise that Pelle lives in Denmark and not souteastern California, and it's all the more impressive.He's a scenery craftsman extraordinaire.  Moreover, those modern restaurants and motels on his layout are scracthbuilt.  Not everybody realizes this, but he runs his own model structure company making these same modern structure kits to fill an obvious gap in the model market.Everything on his layout works together to create an incredibly realistic, plausible theme.  There are no distracting odd-ball models with a detailed backstory stretching plausibility.  Everything is so normal, everyday, mundane that the effect is jaw-droppingly spectacular.I'll tell you what, every time I see his work I get the urge to abandon my beloved 1950s Pennsy and switch to modeling the modern big-diesel era.  My wife would kill me if I did, though!In summary, even this dyed-in-the-wool steam-era Pennsy N scaler is in love with Pelle's modern UP/BNSF HO desert layout.  He sets an amazing standard I couldn't hope to meet.  Good job!!![/quote]Well said! I agree completly! Maybe that's one of the reasons I model the modern era, although it's on the East coast. If I modeled the west it would be easier though.....I'm already sick of planting trees....[swg]I haven't gotten the mag yet, can't wait for another excellent piece![tup]
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