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A forum to showcase my work-in-progress, pose some questions and most importantly for everything to be critiqued

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Railway modelers – ‘Atmosphere modelers?’

Railway modelers – ‘Atmosphere modelers?’ I have been thinking recently about what makes the practice of railway modeling special and undoubtedly like many others I think ‘atmosphere’ is perhaps one of the most important elements to railway modeling certainly many of my interviewees have said so and is something that railway modellers’ think about a lot, both designing and experiencing them. For instance, to quote Barry Norman in his book ‘Designing a layout’ (1997, p.1) ‘(w)hen I modelled Lyd
Robert MacKinnon

Robert MacKinnon

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Taking project forward (Rob M, Aber Uni)

Many thanks for the considerable amount of comment this first blog and post got, if you are reading from the blog and from ‘modelling musings and miscellaneous’ I will be talking here to commentators on both my blog and modelling. Another post later will deal with some critical thoughts on some of the conceptual issues that posters have highlighted, i.e what is modelling, but this post discusses in particular what I am going to be doing from here although I want to start this post with some issu
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Robert MacKinnon

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First post: Model Railway Research Project

Introducing myself I would like to introduce myself, my name is Robert MacKinnon and I am a PhD Researcher from the Institute of Geography & Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, undertaking a three year Aberystwyth University funded research project that includes taking a look at model railways. I have to say first off I have not been a practicing modeller for about a decade or so, my object of being with RMweb is to engage with the hobbyist community about my research work and I would l
Robert MacKinnon

Robert MacKinnon

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