From My Workbench

 Here is a video of my latest diorama I entered in Houston last week. I am pretty happy with the final product hope you enjoy it. It took 1st place Dioramas, 1st place Automation at the convention.

From My Workbench

I have been conducting a series of basic Clinics for my NMRA division meetings here in Dallas. The subject this time is Introduction to Scratch-Building Structures. In it we have been building a small basic shack, it can be a news stand, a fireworks stand, fruit stand or whatever you want. My selection was a supply shack for logging. I hope that several of the clinic attendees will bring their versions in.

I am working on finishing up the base this week, it was a fun build, but it its a bit funny, it seems the smaller the build the harder the model. Until next time...

From My Workbench

this is a set of Photo's that of a FSM Kit I completed a few years back, I wanted to get some daylight shots of it for some time now. this diorama will be located in the urban location of my layout. the layout room is coming along, I had a sheetrock guy come out for a estimate the other day, but I have to pull up half of the floor to level it out. Anyway, here are the shots...

From My Workbench

Well it is a new year, and I thought I would share my latest creation, the sawmill complex. This one took about 8 months to complete. it comprises of several BTS kits and the master creations sawmill I had earlier in this blog. It is now installed at the RR club I am a member of.

Shot of the rear of the sawmill and fire tower

The mill pond, note the water lilies and cat tails in front of the pump house.

The plaster cloth is being used to rebuild the area that I demo'ed to introduce this module.

Just some night shots because they look cool...

Well off to the workbench to see what I can come up with on convention in June in Houston....