Modelling activity this week was very much non-existent. On Tuesday we all gathered at Arthur’s place and ogled his new Amby West layout. This is a 12mm QR layout that he has been making buildings for and laying track on for quite some time. We believe it may make a showing in September as a local Brisbane Model Railway exhibition, but it will also be available for viewing before and after the NMRA Convention in August this year. Arthur got two voluntolds to do some shunting on the layout on Tuesday night. I think they made a couple of mistakes but they thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
On Thursday I had Shelton rock up and showed him my version of ‘Shelton the Photographer’. I ran a train through the gunzel section and the flash photographers were going off at the loco and train in the section. I believe Shelton will be making a debut in the National NMRA magazine in the next month or two. The real Shelton thought the implementation was great and he was taking photos of the model scene. I think he will be making his own version as I gave him a copy of the electronics diagram to make it work and also the Arduino code for the flashes.
I was inspired after viewing Arthur’s layout on Tuesday Night. He had a bin chicken sitting above a 44 gallon drum on his new exhibition layout. Some modelling that I did do was the go through my 3D printed animal draw and see what I had. I found three bin chickens and a bush turkey. I was sure I had more, but I could not find them. So I painted the bin chickens white and then used Grimy Black on their legs, tails and heads. They turned out quite good. I used the grimy black also on the bush turkey and then used some red paint on its head. I was most impressed how that turned out as well. I understand that Platform Printing will also be exhibiting at the NMRA Convention in August and they produce excellent models of these subjects. I think I will be acquiring quite a few more so I can distribute them around the layout.
This weekend was a modelling trip to Toowoomba with a visit to 6 local layout owners on Saturday and Saturday dinner and then a Sunday trip to the Toowoomba Model Railway Club’s clubrooms at the Toowoomba Showgrounds for our usual monthly get together. This was where we held our normal Saturday meeting but this month on the Sunday. What a great weekend. My travel buddies with motel buddies as well. We were in the same travelling group to the 6 layouts and we all were inspired by something at each of the 6 layout locations. I won’t say 6 layouts because Aaron had more than 6 layouts on display at his own home. Inspirational! It was good to talk to different people from our NMRA division on the weekend.
I’m ready to do some more modelling this coming week. Hopefully I will find my missing packet of bush turkeys and bin chickens.
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