Blimey but I'm good! He said modestly,,,
Ariel came by with two of my old journals from the house of my brother in law Joe where Tam and I used to live. Wow! Talk about paydirt
One of them is autographed by Neil Gamin - author - who we met at a bookshop and all I had was a new journal I had just bought.
Remember Pat? The guy who makes steel elevated subway structures for Lionel? He used to be a denizen of the AOL group and I went to work with him eventually persuading him to build a prototype station canopy I designed?
The MTH fan boys gave him a real hard time online though I never found out why, I liked him, he'd turned his row house basement into a well equipped industrial strength machine shop and he taught me a lot.
Well the second journal is full of various designs, patterns, stencils and detail constructions of my canopy designs and damn good they look too.
I know one shouldn't blow ones own horn but I'm surprised at the quality of my drawings, they could be framed and hung on the wall, they look so crisp and beautifully water coloured.
At college I used to have a tech drawing instructor who went ballistic because I coloured in my blueprints even though doing so made them much easier to understand and obscured nothing.
I did them his way first and then added an extra version of the best ones done my way with meticulous adherence to the rules about line width and lettering but just embellished to make good portfolio versions in case I got an opportunity to be hired by a special effects group.
Just flicking quickly through these old journals has perked my spirits up considerably because it makes me proud to have left such a legacy. Funny thing too is that these last few days I have been toying with the notion of making some paper models
and maybe completing some unfinished design ideas like - PLAYPLAX - a tile based playmat that can include railroads, roads, rivers and contour levels.
There was a time when I hoped Pat and I might go into partnership and rent a proper workshop to increase our range of products starting with my terminus canopy but it was not to be, lack of funds plus effing New York refusing to countenance manufacturing by making it impossibly expensive to conform to bullshit regulations.
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