What dont you like about this hobby

[tomustang]

Fantasy modeling occurs when the modeler first has to make up his own rules, and then follow them. For example, I once designed a model ATV for four-armed humanoid life-forms, complete with interior. There are no prototypical models for that sort of thing. This was part of a large diorama featuring five different "layers" of alien cultures, all different, and each based on a different premise.

A thought just popped into my head... Has anyone ever seen a layout where someone attempted to model the future? Most of us model the past, in some cases an alternate past. Some model the present, but I can't think of a single model railroader who attempted to model what they think trains will be like 5, 10, or 100 years from now. Other model hobbies have future modelers. Plenty of people are building futuristic car, aircraft, or space ship models. But, other than a few whimsical trains with rocket engines attached, I can't think of ever seeing a future-based layout.

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“This guy wanted to combine trains with slot cars,” he says. “Because of the difference in scale there was no way we could do past or then-current [2002] Baltimore, so we had to be creative and imagine the city’s future. We built some current landmark buildings, but we also got to visualize fun new ones. Plus we took pieces of all these Star Wars toys and stuck pieces to the side of trains and other stuff to make it look all futuristic.”

I like the star wars part lol



I'm looking for more info...

Edited: Found it


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