Summer has finally arrived in Canada. It's been a very cold Spring, which is good for modeling, but not good for hiking or gardening. The nights are still very cold (3c brrr). At least the temperatures are in the double digits during the day. The weather has been really weird this year.
I managed to finish up my trees for the club's layout. I took a picture of the trees after I spray painted and sprinkled on the woodland scenic powder. I have to say that the powder does make the trees more realistic. However, I didn't cut into the air filter fibers enough as Hans and Al had advised. As a consequence, my trees looked too conical in shape. I'll have to do better next year. You can see them in the top picture of the club's layout, which was taken at the SuperTrain show. The show was in April. I apologize for the lateness of my blogging. Work has been getting in the way. I love how the catenaries looked on the club's layout. It gave the layout a whole new dimension. Pictures don't do it justice. I'm still debating whether to include catenaries in my layout. I ordered a Sommerfeldt catenary just to see how it looked. Unfortunately HobbyTech doesn't carry that brand so I had to order it from Eurorail Hobbies. Other manufacturers' make catenaries, but Sommerfeldt offered more realistic and better quality and are constructed of metal.
The organization of this year's train show was much better than the previous year. The show was quite successful in terms of attendance and the club's layout was well received by the public. Brian kept telling people that our layout straddled the border between Germany and Austria. The train took passengers to Germany for bier and Austria for streudel, which was the reason that the train didn't loop in a circular fashion. I think there is a desire to expand the layout in the future so that it will loop around.
There were lots of exhibitors at the show this year.
One of the exhibitors was Black Forest Wood Products and they had a selection of Proxxon tools for hobbyists. I picked up a table vise from them. I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but I definitely like the quality better than the previous vise I purchased, which I returned. I'm seriously thinking of buying the miniature bandsaw, but that will have to wait until I get back into modeling this Fall. Hopefully Fall comes late this year. I really need to get to the mountains to work off those Winter calories!
I managed to finish up my trees for the club's layout. I took a picture of the trees after I spray painted and sprinkled on the woodland scenic powder. I have to say that the powder does make the trees more realistic. However, I didn't cut into the air filter fibers enough as Hans and Al had advised. As a consequence, my trees looked too conical in shape. I'll have to do better next year. You can see them in the top picture of the club's layout, which was taken at the SuperTrain show. The show was in April. I apologize for the lateness of my blogging. Work has been getting in the way. I love how the catenaries looked on the club's layout. It gave the layout a whole new dimension. Pictures don't do it justice. I'm still debating whether to include catenaries in my layout. I ordered a Sommerfeldt catenary just to see how it looked. Unfortunately HobbyTech doesn't carry that brand so I had to order it from Eurorail Hobbies. Other manufacturers' make catenaries, but Sommerfeldt offered more realistic and better quality and are constructed of metal.The organization of this year's train show was much better than the previous year. The show was quite successful in terms of attendance and the club's layout was well received by the public. Brian kept telling people that our layout straddled the border between Germany and Austria. The train took passengers to Germany for bier and Austria for streudel, which was the reason that the train didn't loop in a circular fashion. I think there is a desire to expand the layout in the future so that it will loop around.
There were lots of exhibitors at the show this year.
One of the exhibitors was Black Forest Wood Products and they had a selection of Proxxon tools for hobbyists. I picked up a table vise from them. I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but I definitely like the quality better than the previous vise I purchased, which I returned. I'm seriously thinking of buying the miniature bandsaw, but that will have to wait until I get back into modeling this Fall. Hopefully Fall comes late this year. I really need to get to the mountains to work off those Winter calories!
