Yearly Archives: 2018


This morning I decided to take Playa Desnuda outside into the morning sun. I even orientated the layout to the proper east/west direction….I took these pictures with my tablet since my Nikon battery was not charged…  

Playa Desnuda in the sun…



Playa Desnuda is that beach city that happens to be on the wrong side of the tracks. It really needs a dive bar, and I an going to help out the town. I am thinking about naming it Vardi’s, in honor of Chandler’s Phillip Marlowe. In Marlowe’s debut novel, The […]

About to open up a bar…





Early in the month, I took pictures and measurements of the Casa Grande Southern Pacific speeder shed. I had a fresh sheet of 0.040″ styrene, some leftovers of metal roofing from the D’Amato Lumber project, and a small piece of freight car siding. The three sides are plain styrene, the […]

Working on the Casa Grande speeder shed