Clinic Notes and Information
November 17, 2008
Jim Spice's Joy of Backdrop Painting hands on clinic. Click here for a PDF download of his clinic handout.
December 17,
2006
This month's clinics featured
"mini-clinics" from the membership.
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Tim Kleimeyer demonstrates his photo image sizing stick. Take a picture with the stick in it and then you can size the images in the picture by using the 1 foot scale marks of the stick. |
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David Leider shows us how to make model roofing paper from tissue paper. Stretch the paper on a board, paint it the desired color, cut the strips and then glue the paper to the model. You must use "Canopy Glue" to avoid getting wrinkles in the paper. The glue is used on RC model airplanes and available at RC plane hobby shops. |
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Leif Hansen devised a clever way to get lighting power to his model houses and still keep them movable between his work bench and the layout. He uses a Molex type electric connector on the bottom of the structure. Male on the structure and female on the layout board. Any similar type connector will work. |
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David shows how a simple template can be used to make a complex structure. In this case it is a loading ramp with lots of stringer and rib supports underneath. His surface template defines the size, and also has spaced plastic strips added to make the various stringer and support assemblies. |
October 15,
2006
We were honored
to have David Popp, Senior Editor of Model Railroader
magazine, as October's clinic leader discussing operations on
his "New Haven Naugatuck Valley Line" N-Scale model
railroad. David made all of his operations forms available to our
division. Just select the desired form from the
table below to download any
of the PDF or MS Word files listed below for your own use.
(Depending on your browser, you may
require the latest version of the Adobe Reader
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Adobe Reader Download to
obtain a free-ware copy. Note: Download files sizes are listed in parentheses
after the edition link.)
David
wanted to
mention that he just finished shooting a new video on the
"Naugatuck" titled: “How to operate your model railroad."
The video will cover many of the things he did in his clinic and
show a more in-depth look at what dispatchers, yardmasters, and
other train crew personnel do during an operating session. The video
is produced by TN Marketing, the same people doing the “Dream, Plan,
Build” series for "Model Railroader". It should be available in
December or January.