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Top notch! I could see myself shrinking down and having a stroll around the area.

Why, thank you, Shamus. Truthfully, I never finished that WS bar. I need to one day bring it up to better standards. (I did it over 16 years ago).

One of my all-time favorite set of books is Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California which came in 2 volumes. I used to sit and read these in the public library ad infinitum (instead of doing my homework). I eventually found one in a used bookstore years later. A wealth of historical info on...

Here's my modification to an HO DPM 103 structure, built as a backdrop flat. Eddie Landreth and Rock Island Mike have displayed their fine handywork previously - so I thought I'd wean a few sighs as well. I apologize for the real background being out of scale and too high in proportion. It was...

Another replication of a prototype grafitti mural, this time on a MDC HO Railbox car. I went beyond the call of duty and faded out the lettering while I was aging the paint.

An HS repatch of a Milwaukee Road covered hopper, modeled with an HO Athearn kit, using a prototype photo I took.

Here's a Walther's enclosed autorack that I used to replicate an actual CNW car (except for the road number, that is). Liking to put grafitti on my contemporary kits, I found the prototype art to be one of the longest I've seen. So I had to do it in HO.

As this - and the other 3 in my folder below - were my first attempts at HO weathering, I used whatever I had laying around. I won't go into the step-by-step process... but I faded the lettering and logo out first, and then put a very weak black wash over the whole car. The now-infamous rust...

What they don't tell you about an ALPS printing in white, is that it is used as either a spot color - or - a background color only. The top of the line MD-5000 is rated at 2400dpi which is awesome, but that is for the CMYK primary inks only. White, being a spot or background color will only...

Guess I better enter this while I am still officially the owner (and artist). Unfortunately it's up for sale this week. Sorry about the cheesy foreground detracting from the overall realism. It's HO scale, by the way. Mike

I buy from eBay all the time. Not the collectibles as much as the bargains. I collect N-scale, and while I love my local hobby shop, sometimes you can get a better deal on a multiple purchase through an eBay seller. Especially when the seller is liquidating stuff and uses a low Buy It Now...