jwhitten I can handle criticism just fine-- justified or not.
Good. I am glad you don't get defensive at all.
However, if what you wanted to discuss was how to create realistic looking scenes, you have not done an awful lot of that yet.
Feel free to post more about that subject, and less about the subject of the "unjustified criticism" of your original post in this thread. You have gotten the point about focus and brevity. Maybe time for you to stop responding blow-by-blow to everyone who reiterates criticism already made?
That people sometimes get hurt feelings when others misunderstand their good intensions I already know, and it is of little use to me as a model railroading technique.
Tips on how to create realistic looking MR scenes, on the other hand ....
Smile, Stein
I am going to exercise some discretion at this point and lock this thread. I feel that several good points have been made, perhaps taken, and that we can look forward to a modified approach to a topic with less breadth? In John's defense, he can't be faulted for remaining active and helping to further the discussion. I will agree that the first post was considerably too long, clearly, judging by feedback, and to broad. I think John probably regrets the choice of title, but he wouldn't be the first to find that he could have done better...been there. Several times.
You have to admit...it generated a lot of discussion, some of it topical in the way he had hoped, some more directed to the responder's irritation with the execution at the outset.
There's always next Friday...
-Crandell
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