Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Evolution of the iNdoor design, part 2

›
At the same time that I was using CAD to draft the detailed layout design I also maintained a written description of the purpose of each sec...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Evolution of the iNdoor design, part 1

›
Previously I talked about the high-level design and the decision to use CAD for the detailed design. After I'd been using the CAD tool f...
Saturday, February 13, 2010

Egad, what a CAD

›
This post is about Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools for model layout planning. The title actually comes from an obscure, one-act melodrama ...
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Design influences: 2003-2005

›
This is my final posting under the “design influences” theme. I have covered pretty much my life story from a railroad perspective, starting...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

More about Curves

›
As an addendum to my post on curves and radii , I took a few pictures of the Kato Zephyr around various curves to demonstrate how the degree...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

A Degree in Curves

›
What has to be out of scale in even the most spacious layouts? The curves! – John Armstrong, The Classic Layout Designs of John Armstron...
2 comments:
Saturday, January 23, 2010

Design influences: 4th layout (my first N scale experiment)

›
I mentioned that in 2002 we revived the Märklin layout in the garage. This was definitely fun, especially for the kids, as the layout had pl...

Design influences: through the eyes of a child

›
I mentioned before that my third layout was put into storage after I had to give up the space due to the arrival of our second child. Even ...
Monday, April 6, 2009

Outdoor model train scales

›
In the earlier post on gauge and scale I mentioned that the "large", outdoor scales range in size from 1:20.3 to 1:32. While the...
Sunday, April 5, 2009

Design influences: third layout

›
I started my 3rd layout late in 1989, almost 9 years after my second layout was built and dismantled. I was newly married, and my wife, not...