How Time Flies

It's interesting how one image can look really complicated, but gets completed five times faster than something more basic looking.  I have learned that anything to do with machinery or large buildings takes FOREVER!  For example:

I did three difference trains for a show earlier this year.  None of them sold - and it was a model train show...

Nevertheless, I'm glad to still have them on display at other events, and you never know when you'll come across a train fanatic.

Now, shading is one thing - accurately depicting all of those stinking little moving parts is another.  Whoever came up with the design for a steam engine had far too many spare parts on their hands and seemed determined to use them all on one engine!  And I only show the left side of it!

Now, for something that looks complicated, but didn't take nearly as much time...

Not that feathers are necessarily easy to do, but I prefer them over machinery any day.

Currently I'm working on one of a castle, the Neuschwanstein Castle.  There are so many obnoxious little windows and towers...  it's proving to have the same proficiency for time-sucking as the trains!