A matter of perspective: Winchester man creates town that never was

By adamg on Thu, 11/14/2013 - 7:44am

Meet Michael Paul Smith, who, for 25 years, has been using model cars, actual buildings in Winchester and a technique called "forced perspective" to create photos of a mythical town called Elgin Park.

His Flickr feed has more photos.

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The dude is a genius , maybe

By kvn on Thu, 11/14/2013 - 9:29am.

The dude is a genius , maybe he can re-create this scenario, except add a few railcars..... , sweet .

http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/homenewshere.com/content/tnc...

That's Awesome

By GoBruins on Thu, 11/14/2013 - 9:51am.

I love stuff like this. I'd love to see that whole collection of model cars,too. He's got some real beauties there.

Try here

By Stevil on Thu, 11/14/2013 - 10:47am.

If you like models - please visit us in December

www.bsmrm.org

As someone who does this kind of modeling at a pretty high level - that stuff is amazing and even more difficult than most people realize. That picture of the tow truck pulling the car out of the snow is genius - modeling realistic snow is tough enough - but getting that "trodden" look is masterpiece level work.

I tip every hat I own to this guy.

Thanks-but bad link

By GoBruins on Thu, 11/14/2013 - 12:03pm.

The link to the site has a universal hub address that's no good. Typing in the link,however,worked and the Holiday Open House looks fun. Thanks.

Link fixed.

By adamg on Thu, 11/14/2013 - 2:14pm.

Needed "http://"

Thanks Adam

By Stevil on Thu, 11/14/2013 - 2:19pm.

I went out and tried to fix it - but the little linky and other formatting icons didn't come up on the edit post page that I could see. I'll keep that in mind for next time!

What dates?

By Michael Kerpan on Thu, 11/14/2013 - 1:47pm.

Couldn't see the dates anywhwere....

December 7-8

By Stevil on Thu, 11/14/2013 - 2:28pm.

11 am - 3 pm.

Across from Roslindale Village commuter rail station - enter via brown door between Dandelion's florist and the gift shop on the corner.

Santa only there Sunday I believe from about noon.

Bring lots of kids ages 1 to 101 (note - lots of stairs - not handicapped accessible - but we'll get someone up the stairs if needed - strollers have to stay at bottom of stairs) - be prepared for the little kids to want to stay with us - we usually end up having to adopt 2-3 after every show! :-)

Uhubbers - please stop by and say hi - I will most likely be at the door about an hour each day or in the "tower" over the mountains on the HO layout if I'm running trains.