Northall

Hi Job, 
 
Sorry to hear that your eye problems are still troubling you. I admire your perseverance with the modelling, and as you say it is always important to have something like this to work with when things are troubling you.
 
I'm excited to see that the map of Northall is developing. It seems to be quite a unique project, I don't know much about the wider hobby of diorama modelling, but I haven't seen anyone attempt to plan a town before. I wonder what products the plastic moulders are making! :-)
 
I'm a big fan of the Penauts, they have a way of communicating that we are not alone with our troubles and adding a bit of humour to it all :-)

Thanks for your reply and the very true Charlie Brown strip picture. At night problems look mostly very different then by day light.

When you model a railway traject or a railway station every thing is clear. Trains are coming in and are departing. Freight traffic is more complex. But creating a believable story for road deliveries is even more complex. Individual freight parcels have to be delivered in a logical order through a city. That's why I create a city map. The Kelly Directories are helpfull with this. I think you can use them also for your Farthings project.

For my eyeproblems there is a good solution for reading and modeling: a Desktop Video Magnifier. I'm already testing a software program to help my to use the computer. But I have to see what is possible.

That's an interesting point about creating a plan for the logic of road deliveries. I wonder if you are the first person in the world to be doing that in model form?

 

I have had a look at the Kelly directories and as you say they look like great inspiration.

 

Good luck with the Video Magnifier, it would be great if that could help.