Showing posts with label 1984. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1984. Show all posts

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Decisions, Decisions ...

Thanks to Am_Fet over at NZ120.org, I now have a 1995 schematic of the HIL. Studying this I see the loop should be placed first on the layout and then the United Empire Box Co. siding. No big shakes in the overall scheme of things.



A decision has been made regarding the layout's timeframe and I have opted for a bleak, grey winter's day in 1984. Of course, George Orwell writes of a bleak and grey world in his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty Four, and this can be mirrored in the industrial grunge of a narrow, concrete/rusting tin rail corridor. The only splash of real colour will come from a series of (first generation) tags/bombings on those vast, grey canvases. I would also like to play around with creating puddles and the judicious use of a gloss finish to achieve a particular "wet look".

And there we have it, the model railway as Art modelling social commentary (he says, tounge firmly in cheek).