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Tom, You are expressing my thoughts on many a layout I have seen in my "career" of 53 years in this hobby. Quite often too much emphasize is put on the track plan and too little attention to the scenery and the setting of the layout. Scenery and structures are there to fill the gaps in between the tracks, giving the layout a rather "fabricated" than natural look. This goes for the scenery as well as for the structures placed on the layout. Whenever I see a layout my fellow German model railroaders have built, I seem to have a deja vu - I have seen it before. No, of course I have not, but I have seen all the buildings before on other layouts. Hardly a soul goes through the pain of creating a bespoke, scratchbuilt building for a particular scene. It´s all those Faller, Vollmer, Kibri, Auhagen buildings that make the layouts all look alike. The British show us how to do it!
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