I had seen Joe before at shows, but never knew who he is or what he modeled. I must say the man is an amazing modeler, extremely sharp, and knows a lot about the history of everything he models on his layout. It doesn't hurt that he used to be a former tower operator for many years.
I was very impressed. He was extremely generous with his time and his knowledge. I learned a lot and hope to incorporate some of the skills he said he used into some future projects. He is the first to make me think using brick paper is okay.
I had permission to take photos. He is very humble, not thinking his layout was magazine-worthy, but a magazine should definitely look into getting his story into print, to engrave his work into "stone".
Also something of interesting note...he likes it simple...so everything is straight DC.
I took a million photos. Blogger isn't great about how it orders the photos when it inserts them in a post...so I will just post them all...and they may be out of order thanks to Google Blogger. Not worth my time to fix it.
