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Title: Help request, looking for an article
Post by: SandiaPaul on December 23, 2022, 04:42:09 AM
Greetings,

I'm looking for an article that had some ideas about building a layout as separate discrete but connected dioramas. I thought it was in one of the model building annuals but I can't find it. Also tried the other annuals but then got to thinking maybe it was here on the forum. All I know is I'm certain it was a Westlake thing! Searching here for diorama and shadowbox brings a good many results...just not the ones I'm looking for!

Does this ring any bells?

Thanks,
Paul
Title: Re: Help request, looking for an article
Post by: Bill Gill on December 23, 2022, 07:34:21 AM
Hi Paul, Do you recall what the layout looked like at all? Scenery? Time frame?
 Tha might help fire a few of my remaining memory cells.
Title: Re: Help request, looking for an article
Post by: SandiaPaul on December 23, 2022, 09:03:29 AM
So...not really except for one weird detail I do recall. There was one picture that had a water heater in it. And I thought what a neat way to deal with it. That since the whole thing was sections with "blank" spaces between them it didn't matter the water heater was there.

I ask this because I am in the initial stages of planning something and I always thought is was a cool idea. I don't really need to find it as I kinda know what I want to do...but it's always helpful to see someone take on it. Thanks!

PS...it is very possible I took this issue and put it somewhere "safe", that being the reason I can't find it now!
Title: Re: Help request, looking for an article
Post by: finescalerr on December 23, 2022, 10:28:43 AM
I think I remember what you're looking for. I will try to dig it up and, if possible, extract it as a PDF for you. If I'm successful, it will be your Christmas present. -- Russ
Title: Re: Help request, looking for an article
Post by: Ray Dunakin on December 23, 2022, 10:01:36 PM
Quote from: SandiaPaul on December 23, 2022, 09:03:29 AMPS...it is very possible I took this issue and put it somewhere "safe", that being the reason I can't find it now!

I've lost so much stuff that way! I put it somewhere "so I won't lose it" and that's the last I see of it. The surest way to find it is the buy a replacement. Then the lost item will turn up right away.
Title: Re: Help request, looking for an article
Post by: SandiaPaul on December 24, 2022, 04:46:44 AM
Yeah...but why do I keep doing that?!?
And you maybe said to get a replacement in jest...but I have done that more than once. And a couple times I do find the original eventually!!

Ray...someone was asking about you on the On30 FB group the other day and wondering what happened to your layout.


I've lost so much stuff that way! I put it somewhere "so I won't lose it" and that's the last I see of it. The surest way to find it is the buy a replacement. Then the lost item will turn up right away.
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Title: Re: Help request, looking for an article
Post by: finescalerr on December 24, 2022, 01:47:20 PM
Paul, I e-mailed the article. Did you receive it? -- Russ
Title: Re: Help request, looking for an article
Post by: Barney on December 24, 2022, 02:16:32 PM
Squirrels Hide there Nuts and they say its just by chance they find them again !! Myself I always know where my nuts are !!
Barney
Title: Re: Help request, looking for an article
Post by: SandiaPaul on December 24, 2022, 06:09:05 PM
Hey wow that's the one!! It wound up in spam folder. Yes thanks for the effort. I can stop looking for the issue now!

Merry Christmas to you too!
Title: Re: Help request, looking for an article
Post by: Lawton Maner on December 25, 2022, 11:11:21 AM
Barney:

This is a family forum.  Keep it clean! 
Title: Re: Help request, looking for an article
Post by: finescalerr on December 25, 2022, 12:28:23 PM
Lawton, please seek therapy. -- Russ
Title: Re: Help request, looking for an article
Post by: shropshire lad on December 25, 2022, 03:38:20 PM
Quote from: Lawton Maner on December 25, 2022, 11:11:21 AMBarney:

This is a family forum.  Keep it clean! 

Absolutely. This place is awash with impressionable young children and delicate females who know nothing of the male form .

  So Barney , keep your nuts to yourself and don't display them again .
Title: Re: Help request, looking for an article
Post by: Hauk on December 26, 2022, 08:51:18 AM
Just out of curiosity, could anyone post a few pictures of the layout?
Title: Re: Help request, looking for an article
Post by: TRAINS1941 on December 26, 2022, 09:45:04 AM
Quote from: Hauk on December 26, 2022, 08:51:18 AMJust out of curiosity, could anyone post a few pictures of the layout?

Russ would probably want your nuts to do something like that!!  ;D

Jerry
Title: Re: Help request, looking for an article
Post by: finescalerr on December 26, 2022, 12:04:56 PM
I have attached the entire article. -- Russ

Shadow Box - 2010 NG Annual.pdf
Title: Re: Help request, looking for an article
Post by: Hauk on December 29, 2022, 04:16:47 AM
Thanks a lot, Russ! Very inspiring. If I ever build a layout I will most likely use this concept.
Title: Re: Help request, looking for an article
Post by: finescalerr on December 29, 2022, 12:16:51 PM
You already seem to be using that concept, even without a layout. Your enginehouse diorama is a terrific example. -- Russ