Rod Stewart's layout.

Oldun · March 05, 2014, 09:50:57 AM

Re 'Bealman's post:

The February 2014 Model Railroader mag with Rod Stewart's layout turned up at the newsagents yesterday, so I bought it.

This is on 'youtube':

Rod Stewart returns to Model Railroader in February 2014

Roger

Agrippa · March 05, 2014, 10:00:43 AM

Rod's layout must be awesome. If that Liberty ship is
built to scale it would be about 6 ft long !

Newportnobby · March 05, 2014, 08:38:12 PM

No need to add that - he just happens to have a very well paid job he worked his (

) socks off to get the necessary 'promotion'
Not that his music since The Faces does anything for me

Bealman · March 05, 2014, 10:31:34 PM

Yeah... you might be right there, though I didn't mind his first 'solo' effort Atlantic Crossing, and the album from 1990 (which I can't remember the name of, so it could hardly have been a classic) with 'Downtown Train' on it wasn't too bad.

What WAS that album called?

ngauger · March 06, 2014, 08:17:35 AM

Quote from: newportnobby on March 05, 2014, 08:38:12 PM
No need to add that - he just happens to have a very well paid job he worked his () socks off to get the necessary 'promotion'
Not that his music since The Faces does anything for me

you misunderstand me, I wasn't referring to Mr Stewart, just the quote from Ben A;

Quote: "a man will be content if he has a wife, a job and a hobby - though I am not sure if it's in that order!" unquote

Andy

D1042 Western Princess · March 09, 2014, 10:49:56 AM

Personally (whoever built it) I think it's very impressive and just shows what (compared to an ordinary "Joe" doing an ordinary job) relatively unlimited money and space can achieve. Also it's great that people like him, and Pete Waterman are ready to admit to railway modelling as a hobby. The more often famous people admit to such things the less "nerdy" the hobby becomes in the eyes of the general public and the less derision we railway modellers attract as a group.

Bealman · March 09, 2014, 11:02:53 AM

Well said, buddy!

I've had a guitar (and try to play it) for about the same time as him, but (in his words, so they say), he did all right out of it.

I'm still tryin'

One of these days.

Agrippa · March 09, 2014, 11:15:00 AM

Regarding derision aimed at rail modellers, I think Frank Sinatra was a modeller. If anyone derided
him they'd probably get a cement overcoat.

. Mention rail modelling and a lot of the public
visualise someone like Roy in Coronation Street rather than a blonde chasing rock star.

I am a keen amateur photographer and amateur photographers have often been seen as nerdy
and slightly suspicious whereas pro photographers are often portrayed as glamorous showbiz
type characters. A curious situation. Years ago few people carried a camera unless they were on
holiday or at a wedding. Now with the advent of smartphones etc everyone is a photographer
and you often see young people lugging state of the art Nikons and Canons about.

Personally I regard Stobart spotters and chess players as weird, but if that's their bag so be it.

Bealman · March 09, 2014, 10:57:04 PM

Quote from: Agrippa on March 09, 2014, 11:15:00 AM
Regarding derision aimed at rail modellers, I think Frank Sinatra was a modeller. If anyone derided
him they'd probably get a cement overcoat. . Mention rail modelling and a lot of the public
visualise someone like Roy in Coronation Street rather than a blonde chasing rock star.

I am a keen amateur photographer and amateur photographers have often been seen as nerdy
and slightly suspicious whereas pro photographers are often portrayed as glamorous showbiz
type characters. A curious situation. Years ago few people carried a camera unless they were on
holiday or at a wedding. Now with the advent of smartphones etc everyone is a photographer
and you often see young people lugging state of the art Nikons and Canons about.

Personally I regard Stobart spotters and chess players as weird, but if that's their bag so be it.

You have made an interesting observation there, though, about young people being into large SLRs. Both my oldest daughters and their boyfriends all have Canons, as do I. However... I seem to be going the other way.... on my UK and European adventures last year, I was, quite frankly getting tired of lugging the thing around after two months. On a trip to Tasmania in January this year, although I took it with me, it stayed in the hotel room the whole time!! I took all my pictures on the phone.

In some ways, it dismays me a little, as in my younger days I was quite a keen photographer and have owned various SLRs since I was in my late teens, but now they just seem cumbersome. I realise, of course that to the serious photographer, SLRs are an essential tool - it's just I'm not that serious any more, I guess.

I don't even use the Canon for layout shots, any more. I get up close and dirty with the phone camera!