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Oh, the graffiti options......

Carlos, I was initially going to ask for permission to post this topic here, but I went ahead and I am glad I did. Thank you so much for what you wrote - and also what you wrote about using Gunze paints on your RAF Hurricane! I’m grateful to be associated with good company. I do hope we get to shake hands in person some day soon.

John, Were you a fan of the X-Files? I was also into reading wonderful paperbacks about Roswell UFOs, the Mothman Prophesies (a great, somewhat forgotten gem of a film was made as well). There was a local bookstore that had those books “used for a buck in a barrel.” This year I started getting spooky in August by reading “The Stand,” which is just about perfect to describe the events of late. Why not a government experiment to create a bio weapon gone wrong? Anyway that was the unofficial start of fall for me. Now this is the nadir of the season, and I am sitting with boxes of old brass trains and last night’s pumpkin contemplating the latest round of fires affecting California. Earlier I watched a local news show detailing “Ways to save money in Los Angeles.” The top tip was to “live with a relative and save on rent.” This came hard on the heels of an ad for housing in San Diego, which you may have seen, with a garden shed with no plumbing being offered as affordable housing... for $1500 a month. Wow! Talk about a world turned upside down inside out and sideways all at the same time!

Beam me up, Scotty.

Lyle, Thank you for letting me post this diorama. I breathed a sigh of relief because really I was not sure if this was the right thing to do, but what the heck, these are models, in a diorama setting. I was planning to model the PRR in the 1950s just like my Dad did. Mainly so I can use his rolling stock and both steam as well as diesel locomotives, so I need to research graffiti options, but I know there has been graffiti since those Lascaux cave days! Maybe “Kilroy was here” is an option.

DESIGN No 2

A super interesting project! It also has an emotional background, which I always like. I think your scratch building abilities will be challenged with this one, young Padawan.
Check out "Dioramasphere" on FB, he has some fantastic how-to's that might come handy!

Don’t forget a sawed off double barrel 12 gauge shotgun and a boomerang.

Don’t forget a V-8 Interceptor. “If you wanna get out of here, you talk to me.”

Cool project Bruce! Also a great story about the black bridge. It's the same here in rural Indiana don't do anything in threes

Clint, thank you so much for your words. I remember driving from Chicago to South Bend as darkness was falling, and the towns disappearing into some dizzying abstractions of yellow sodium vapor lighted highways punctuated by flickering gray strobes of TV sets, and the steel bridges sang beautifully under the tires as we shot into that secret heart of the Midwest. I remember standing on a highway beside a closed up Dairy Queen looking at a field of corn that led straight to the horizon. A place of ghosts, indeed—and a place where “deeds not words” meant something greater to those whom I met (I was there as part of a group art show at Purdue). Never in threes. That’s right.

I need to visit that part of the country one day. By a road trip of course...