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Carrara looks very impressive. It has every feature I can think of in Bryce 4. Bryce 5 has a tree lab, where you can create dynamic trees, but that's the only thing that I can find Carrara doesn't have. Pretty amazing considering the extra features it has beyond what Bryce comes with. IIRC...

Drawn in AutoCAD. Actually, I used Land Development Desktop (the civil engineering version of AutoCAD, like Architectural Desktop is for architects), but it's essentially Release 15 with a bunch of whistles and bells. You say you guys use VizRender. That must be the next generation of...

Here are the buildings. They appear to float because the terrain model that should be underneath them is enormous and I didn't want to wait all day to export it from AutoCAD. Rendered in Bryce

I used a set of drawings published in a modeling magazine (can't remember which one). I scanned the drawings, imported it into AutoCAD, drew a line along the longest dimension line I could find from endpoint to endpoint, drew another line in space at the length shown on the dimension then...

Your high marks are a direct result of your enthusiasm and interest in your studies. Keep it up! It also sounds like you use some pretty cool software. When I took drafting in high school (1991), it was board drafting. With technical pens. Not a computer in sight. Count yourself fortunate...

It looks good. I take it Inventor is a solid modeling program? I've done loads of 3D work in AutoCAD, but the 3D commands are pretty limited. I have to break everything down to primitive objects that can be revolved or extruded, but a little Boolean magic works wonders... In fact, I got...

Finally got some images posted of what I did this weekend: http://www.geocities.com/norfolksouthernhinose/RCsCustomDiesels5.html http://www.geocities.com/norfolksouthernhinose/2175a.jpg http://www.geocities.com/norfolksouthernhinose/2175b.jpg...

I don't think it hurts to have the track run parallel with the edge of the benchwork, depending on the purpose your layout is serving. If you're creating a series of scenes, it might be appropriate to spend time composing each scene as you would a painting or a photograph. In this case...

I'd take your favorite locomotive, find a cheap boxcar that's about the same size, and roll (as in "tumble" not "push") it off the track toward layout edge (or where it will be). Wherever it stops rolling, add an inch or two for safety. You'd hate to have a sleeve or something catch on a brass...

Everyone got to bed by 10 o'clock last night, which is rare, so I took advantage of the opportunity. I grabbed my trusty airbrush, my raw and burnt siennas and umbers, flat black and "Radome Tan" (a Model Master military color - excellent for weathering) and started the compressor. I weathered...

Ray, even a dozen goats wouldn't be able to keep Willie's place in check with all the rain we've been having in this part of Texas lately. I've only got a half acre to mow, and it took nearly three hours (push mower) and half a gallon of water. This is usually the dry part of the year, so...

Sounds like a certain municipality needs to make some capital improvements to me! If the crew had violated the rules and been involved in some sort of accident, say hitting a gas tanker truck at that crossing or derailing an anhydrous tanker causing a serious problem, every single one of those...

They've had an open hopper announced for some time, but nothing ever became of it. I heard they were up for sale, I don't know, maybe a year ago? Their product line seems to be a bit more crisply molded and detailed than say, Athearn or MDC, but not much more complicated. I'm not sure their...

Athearn wasn't struggling with much of anything by the time Horizon came around. It might have been true when Mr. Athearn died in 1991, but that was a long time ago. The investors that bought Athearn back then managed to point the company in a new direction. The Genesis Line, RTR, the RPP...

In my neck of the woods, the trains came before the paved roads, so the roadway crosses over the railroad right-of-way. That leaves the railroad with seniority over the crossing and the highway with the right of ingress and egress (to go over and across). In fact, it's incumbent upon the...

I think we have a winner! Johnnie, tell him what he's won... That's exactly the attitude to have! I bought a pair of custom painted Mopac U Boats at a train show when I was a kid and they weren't cheap. I used months of saved money to buy them. After I had a chance to look at them for awhile...

A new equation for HO (Horizon buys MDC Roundhouse) Okay, Horizon + Athearn + MDC Roundhouse = ? Find the answer here: http://www.mdcroundhouse.com/general/announcement.htm

I have almost finished some models I've been working on for a few years. I got my NS GP38-2 (http://www.the-gauge.com/showpost.php?p=104101&postcount=20) and my Southern GP38-2 (http://www.the-gauge.com/showpost.php?p=104103&postcount=22) to about the same state. Both have had Cannon short...

And finally the newest addition to the fleet

another (the one that's 11 years old)