--- In [email protected], "Michael Eldridge" <meldridge@...> wrote:
>
> Good idea. You guys come up with a name that somebody outside our fraternity
> would search for.
>
> It will be an SP flavored but mostly freelanced layout built in a garage. I
> will include some locally recognizable structures from the San Jose area, but
> generally not in the right places. I am more of a model builder than a layout
> builder, so the blog will include modeling stuff (putting together a BTS
> structure, rebuilding an AM Pacific to match an SP prototype,
> scratch-building one car from each of the Thompson SP books.. all on the
> to-do list). My goal is to show people who don't know what we do, what we do.
> What words do you think someone would type in a search engine and that we
> would like to point them to a blog of a guy building an S Scale layout?
I think there's no single group of people that might be interested in your
project. model railroaders will be attracted by one thing and prospective
modelers by another thing. Non modelers need to be hooked on the concept of
modeling in general before the fact that your layout is S scale matters to
them. Existing modelers in other scales need to be hooked by something
interesting about your project before they take the time to look into the
possibilities of S scale.
If you are modeling the older era you probably want to put "Santa Clara
Valley" somewhere in the name, or if modeling the later era
"Silicon Valley" ,these terms let folks know where it's at and gives them a
preview of what you are trying to do. I'd also include S scale or 1:64 modeling
or some such identification in the name or description. I'd also suggest
looking for photos of what was typical in the valley and building models that
are appropriate instead of just buying products to build. There was enough
interesting local structures and scenery to fill a garage and it would be
easier to build than generic models as you can still go see many examples to
study the details.
Do you have a era and area of interests, such as fruit packing, canneries,
commuter passenger trains, etc.? Once you know what you want to model then a
track plan becomes a lot easier to develop. Since he range of S scale models is
limited you might have to work backwards from what rolling stock you can obtain
to how it can be realistically incorporated into a layout, but that can be an
interesting exercise. ...Dave Branum
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