CNJ is spot on..The heavy hitters are on more specialized forums including one of the forums I moderate on..
No,I am not a heavy hitter but,just moderate on one they conjugate on by happenstance.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
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A number of our fellow posters have appeared in recent Trackside Photos spreads, just over the past few months.
Maybe if we'd spend less time in front of the computer and more time modeling, we'd be able to do that, too.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
CNJ is right on the mark. This forum tends to be too rapid fire, and very broad in its discussion. While it would be great to have some of the heavy hitters answer questions about which train set to buy for a beginner, or how to decal a locomotive, the fact is that they've typically moved on to more meaty topics such as the quality of motor armatures, micro-engineering an N scale climax, or operations topics related to their favorite prototypes.
More engaging topics that require more in depth discussion than can happen here, where topics can sink like a stone due to sheer volume.
That's not to say that this is a bad thing. A ton of really good information gets posted here, but sometimes you have to weed through the Diners and Beer Barns to find it...
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
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Keep looking in Trackside Photos and Boomer Trail. Every now and then I run across a name I recognize from the interwebs. It's fun when that happens. :)
One thing to remember is that a lot of us are using various Internet handles which aren't necessarily our real names. Another thing to remember is that this is a very big hobby, and any magazine or online forum will probably include a very small fraction of the total, just because that's how such things work, and the fractions won't tend to overlap a lot.
Getting published also has a lot to do with non-model-railroading skills. Most people who have appeared a lot in the magazines have been somewhat into photography. Photographing miniature scenes is tricky. This is getting easier, now that digital cameras are cheap.
I think a lot of people don't realize that the apparently perfect layouts in MR and RMC aren't so unusual. They're excellent layouts, to be sure, but I've seen plenty of work by posters here that is every bit as good, and often the builders only show it with all sorts of apologies, because they don't think it's "as good as the stuff in MR". Usually, though, it is.
The key is that the layouts in MR are photographed well. Take a good ordinary layout, set up a decent scene, light it well, and take a good clear photo that captures the best features of the scene, and you might find you've got a masterpiece after all.
Loco Maybe it's just me, I'm new to this whole thing.....after our train club meeting last night I was re-reading Great Model Layout 07 (they had a good feature article on deck height) and it occurred to me that since I've been subscribing to MRR and seeing all the outstanding layouts month after month after year and being apart of this forum I can only remember like one thread that was started from a guy who actually had his layout in the magazine. So what gives?!?! You get published and they ban you from posting?? Do the master train guys not have computers?? Are you all posting under secrecy?!?! How does MRR find all these top notch layouts?!?!? If you start getting really good at stuff does MRR contact ya and say, hey, no posting, we may want ya to do an article so we can sell it and your like giving away to much info..... HEY, wait a second! I bet they have their own super secret board!!!! YAH... that's got to be the deal. Their own Master Model Railroad forum .... The inner sanctum!
Maybe it's just me, I'm new to this whole thing.....after our train club meeting last night I was re-reading Great Model Layout 07 (they had a good feature article on deck height) and it occurred to me that since I've been subscribing to MRR and seeing all the outstanding layouts month after month after year and being apart of this forum I can only remember like one thread that was started from a guy who actually had his layout in the magazine.
So what gives?!?! You get published and they ban you from posting?? Do the master train guys not have computers?? Are you all posting under secrecy?!?! How does MRR find all these top notch layouts?!?!? If you start getting really good at stuff does MRR contact ya and say, hey, no posting, we may want ya to do an article so we can sell it and your like giving away to much info.....
HEY, wait a second! I bet they have their own super secret board!!!! YAH... that's got to be the deal. Their own Master Model Railroad forum .... The inner sanctum!
To be quite honest, you're not all that far off the mark with that comment. Only just a few of the folks who have had their layouts in the magazines seem to participate in any of the more general on-line forums. Most choose posting to more specialized venues, populated by others working at comparable skill levels.
CNJ831.
Guess I'm just a bit confused... and that's normal for me. So just to be on the safe side, from now on I'm not going to post any more updates/photos on my "New Train Room Started" thread or any or any cool ideas, tips, or suggestions cause some day I may actually be good enough be asked to be in a COOL MAGAZINE or SPECIAL EDITION and I don't want to ruin my chances by posting here! Or at least until I figure out this conspiracy...
Ah well... maybe some day I'll be asked to join..... but most likely not, as I tend to be, somewhat of a rabble rouser - an ain't establishment sort of guy.