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modelrailroader ca n scale dystopia modelrailroader ca home projects union project n scale dystopia windsor gypsum railroad niagara escarpment system pete s pumpkins unfinished undecided railroad gallery blood sweat tears railroad contact home projects union project n scale dystopia windsor gypsum railroad niagara escarpment system pete s pumpkins unfinished undecided railroad gallery blood sweat tears railroad contact the joy of doing in the age of instant models september 8 2025 the joy of doing in the age of instant models september 8 2025 no comments unauthorized transmission one of the fun things about these little audio segments i ve been recording is that they feel more like a journal than a podcast they re immediate unpolished and kind of important to me because they sit between the public side of the hobby the modeling the youtube videos and the private side which is just me thinking things through recording them makes me more mindful and when i look back they trace this journey of where my thoughts are at lately a theme keeps coming up i catch myself waxing poetic about the way things used to be and i ll be honest that feels a little frightening like a marker of getting old but what i m really circling is this idea that joy often comes from the act of doing from sitting down at your workbench or kitchen table and getting lost in a project that feeling when time just disappears and you re immersed that s one of the best parts of the hobby now youtube has become part of that hobby for me too it s not about money it s just another way of engaging making videos keeps me honest gives me deadlines and helps me actually get things done but at its core what i love most is still that sense of working through a challenge and coming out the other side and here s where i get stuck everything around us keeps getting more efficient in life in work in medicine in hobbies tools and software make things faster and easier which is great time is money and if you can save time you either make more or you free up hours for yourself and in model railroading it s no different look back to the 1950s issues of model railroader and you ll see people with full machine shops in their basements turning their own drivers on a lathe today you can buy just about anything online or 3d print it in an afternoon that brings me to last week i tried out one of those ai programs that turns a single photo into a 3d model the process was simple take a photo upload it download the stl tweak it a bit and print i took a shot of a little electrical building down at the rail yard within an hour and fifteen minutes i was holding a miniature version in my hand if i d scratchbuilt it it would have taken a couple of hours if i d modeled it from scratch in cad same thing but this way practically instant and i m not sure how i feel about it on the one hand it s amazing futuristic even on the other it makes me uneasy because there was a time when to do that you needed to know photography cad modeling and a whole lot of craft now all those steps collapse into one click it doesn t cheapen my background exactly but it makes my own long journey feel less unique that s a hard feeling to shake it reminds me of how people look at track some use kato unitrack because it s fast and reliable others insist on flextrack and hand laid rail because it feels real there s always this spectrum efficiency on one end deep craft on the other neither is wrong but they each shape the experience and i guess what i m wrestling with is this when technology removes the struggle it risks removing the joy for me some of the deepest satisfaction has come from the challenge itself the slog the hours the overcoming at the same time i don t want to sound like i m against new tools i love experimenting just last week i also scrap bashed some beer can toppers into ventilation shafts for my underground station that s the complete opposite of ai 3d scanning and yet both were fun in different ways so maybe that s the balance for me technology is great and i m absolutely going to keep using it but the real joy the part that sticks is still in the doing and that s not me being prescriptive that s just how i feel about my own journey recent posts the joy of doing in the age of instant models read more september 8 2025 making something from scraps read more august 13 2025 from perfection to done what theatrical backdrops taught me about modeling read more july 27 2025 rethinking the scarcity mindset in a pre order hobby read more july 19 2025 getting past the blank canvas read more july 7 2025 reopening this channel read more july 1 2025 exploring 18 unique stub end stations across north america read more october 30 2024 exploring 5 must see model railroad layouts from the hamilton district tour read more october 7 2024 exploring west harbour station from accidental stop to layout design read more october 7 2024 no plan no problem my august layout update read more september 6 2024 the appeal of stub end stations a new direction for my model railroad read more august 26 2024 tearing down and rebuilding why my layout needs a fresh start read more august 15 2024 farewell to the dystopia project lessons learned and new beginnings read more may 24 2024 building gundam ruins diorama challenge read more september 10 2022 sabotage in dystopia building an n scale explosion diorama read more july 22 2022 dystopia update the dystopia lives a new project announcement read more july 9 2022 building a dystopian chicago l line diorama in n scale read more april 26 2022 building a zombie infested parking garage read more march 15 2022 special request stardew valley community center diorama read more february 14 2022 sinkhole city creating an apocalyptic city block with 3d printed building facades read more february 8 2022 building a resident evil diorama micro layout read more january 28 2022 scratch building the church of transfiguration in n scale johnny mnemonic read more december 3 2021 ghostbusters firehall and stay puft marshmallow man in n scale read more october 30 2021 scratch building a war of the worlds diorama in n scale read more october 23 2021 previous next past projects copyright 2020 modelrailraoder ca all rights reserved