I am a new member. I am hoping to come here and learn and share what I know. I enjoy model railroading and model in a couple of scales. My out door layout is a collection of 1:29 and 1:20.3 stuff and will make my buildings 1:20.3. Indoors I am modeling in 1:24 very loosely. It is a very compressed version but I am working to highly detail the scenes in this scale like the guys in HO and N do.
I am also geeting back into modelling airplanes. This is my first love and what got me into modeling when I was a kid. However this go around it is all about the details. I am currently working on my first diorama. A small scene of a F4U Corsair on a island in the pacific somewhere.
I model everything I can get my hand’s on. Plane’s, car’s, ship’s, but model RR stuff is what I do best.
Bad paint on a boxcar is just “weathering”. Bad paint on a “Hot rod” well… that’s just my poor painting abillity. ( Although, I have quite a few people who can “Identify” my work… because I alway’s manage to get my Thumbprint on it !)
Bad paint on a boxcar is just “weathering”. Bad paint on a “Hot rod” well… that’s just my poor painting abillity. ( Although, I have quite a few people who can “Identify” my work… because I alway’s manage to get my Thumbprint on it !)
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Lol, I somehow got a big thumb print on the side of the Corsair and was tying to figure out how I could right that of as weathering. I sanded and repainted.
Hi Devon, yeah, I’m an addict, too! I should point out to others reading this that Devon and I are friends on another train forum and so I think he already knows a lot of what I am going to share here.
I started modeling when I was quite young, building mostly model cars. Now I am pretty much into trains and structures. My outdoor large scale layout is loosely based on my adopted home town of Martinez, California around the turn of the twentieth century.
I also enjoy history. I chose this time period purposely in order to take advantage of the transitional period between such things as horses and automobiles, wood and concrete, outhouses and indoor plumbing, and so many other similar innovations and techniques. I also have plans to build a 1914 Model T fire truck, various wagons and carriages, a Fairbanks warehouse scale for the freight depot, among other things.
What I find exciting to me on this forum is that I can get a different perspective on modeling techniques. I do not model military or planes and quite frankly probably never will but I can learn from those who do and apply it to my own interests.
Welcome to the forums . Yes , I am going to start the trouble here . You are from Idaho . Is it potato or potahto ? LOL.LOL. I am sure you get tired of potato jokes don’t you ? Anyway welcome to this bunch of Miniature Crazies and Just Good Folks here .
Uh-Oh , I am the Vice President of Modeling and Miniatures at the New Braunfels Rail Museum . I like passenger equipment mostly , but I do run a lot of freights . Always dirty and weathered . I keep the Passenger consists clean though .
Personally I run the Southern Pacific " Daylight " a twelve car consist and the International and Great Northern " Empire Builder " a sixteen car consist .Those two , are to me , the prettiest passenger equipment on rails ! Tanker - Builder
Catch me on messages . I used to live in the Bethel Island area and manage Carol’s Harbor and Marina at 4850 Sandmound Blvd . I’m the guy that went to the Martinez V.A. every week and taught model building to the Vet’s there . That’s where A vet that " Graduated " From their Programs on amputees put the Gold Medal around my neck for the national Veterans Creative Arts Contest . Another " Graduate " bestowed the Silver and then the Bronze . Silver and Gold in Aircraft and Bronze in cars .
Can you say embarrassed ? Boy ,did I blush too . My students , giving their old teacher the highest awards for the California Division in Models ? WOW . We may have some mutual friends there . I bought all my supplies from Rara Avis trains ( Changed to Just Trains ) From Joan , in Concord . If she still has the pieces , I did some vessels for her train layout .
I hope you will accept my abject apology for Hi-Jacking this thread momentarily . It seems we may , All three of us , have a connection ! Tanker Builder
Welcome aboard. It is great to see another new modeler join us. Be sure to show us what you are working on as time progresses. Being an addict…I have to see more models.
Greetings Doc! Small world! Bethel Island is not far at all. My in-laws used to have their boat tied up under the Antioch Bridge. Forget the name of the place but I’ll find out. I live just down the street from the Martinez VA on Pine Street heading towards downtown. My father-in-law is ex-Air Force and also worked at the Concord Naval Weapons Station goes to the VA here (and over on Mare Island), and a friend of mine used to be a chaplain there.
I haven’t posted much of anything here about my Martinez projects but I’ll put something together soon. And watch out for that Devon. He’s a great guy and all, but I think he’s serious about stirring up a bit of trouble with all them airplanes AND trains …[:D]
It would be real neat . To have lunch in My Museum’s dining Car . A restored 1930-1940 wreck we redid after the pattern of Pullman conversions from a coach ! Just had it re-painted . OOps Forgot there’s no choo-choos here !
Whattya mean by that comment " a passenger car Guy " Indeed .! Well I also do a consist of styrene bulk cars from CSX all twelve of them ! . Now what kind of planes and ships are we going to talk about ? I just got two ships and one plane .The plane is called the Boat . One of the few Multi media kits of a favorite plane in 1/72 .The ships are the Box scale U.S.S. Long Beach ,Nuclear Cruiser and the post war U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt . ( The last , thanks to E.J. Hammer)
As far as scale in planes I prefer 1/48 but , some just don’t come that way . Ships I prefer 1/350 or 1/200 and bigger . Trains , well H.O.and " N " are my faves . Cars 1/24-1/25 . Armor 1/35 or 1/48 when I can get it .
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