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Well, I will give you a report here. I took a lot of pics and they will take a while for me to post. I hope they came out good. A lot are from Mike Rabitt's layout and are steel mill related,so they will appear in the blast furnace thread. Check them out.
Friday night, I attended 2 LV clinics. One was given by Steve Stewart on the LV,CNJ,LNE, and LHR between Easton and Bethlehem. After that, I attended Jim Dahlberg's 4 LV model railroad clinic of which I was one of the four. He did a good job of explaining what I am doing. At least no one laughed.
Saturday, I got to meet Steel mill modeler and "king of drawings" Mike Rabitt. He was kind enough to extend a private invite to see his layout and to show me some of his blast furnace scratchbuilding techniques. A friend of mine, noted freight car modeler Bobb Losse and his brother George were attending the convention. I asked them if they wanted to join me. They did. Well all three of us were wowed!.Mike is one very nice person and a very talented modeler. We learned a lot.
Next I sat in on a weathering clinic by Todd Sullivan. It was about weathering reefers. If I had known that I would have attended a different clinic. Not that I don't like Todd's work, I love it. But in my modeling era, reefers are not very common. This was the biggest convention problem, in that the clinic content was not well described, and many modelers attended clinics that were not what they thought.
Next I got to meet a young gentleman from the Railroad.net LV forum Ralph Heiss. He is known there as the other Ralph, but then so am I. A very personable and knowledgeable fellow. He gave a clinic on LV marine ops to the Bronx, and some pics of his layout that he is modeling based on that.
Next was a nice buffet dinner and then Tony Koester's clinic on his NKP. There was some good info on lighting the lower deck, which I am working with right now.
Finally a clinic by Mike Rose on modeling Pa bridges and abutements many of which were former LV.
I hope you enjoy these.
Friday night, I attended 2 LV clinics. One was given by Steve Stewart on the LV,CNJ,LNE, and LHR between Easton and Bethlehem. After that, I attended Jim Dahlberg's 4 LV model railroad clinic of which I was one of the four. He did a good job of explaining what I am doing. At least no one laughed.
Saturday, I got to meet Steel mill modeler and "king of drawings" Mike Rabitt. He was kind enough to extend a private invite to see his layout and to show me some of his blast furnace scratchbuilding techniques. A friend of mine, noted freight car modeler Bobb Losse and his brother George were attending the convention. I asked them if they wanted to join me. They did. Well all three of us were wowed!.Mike is one very nice person and a very talented modeler. We learned a lot.
Next I sat in on a weathering clinic by Todd Sullivan. It was about weathering reefers. If I had known that I would have attended a different clinic. Not that I don't like Todd's work, I love it. But in my modeling era, reefers are not very common. This was the biggest convention problem, in that the clinic content was not well described, and many modelers attended clinics that were not what they thought.
Next I got to meet a young gentleman from the Railroad.net LV forum Ralph Heiss. He is known there as the other Ralph, but then so am I. A very personable and knowledgeable fellow. He gave a clinic on LV marine ops to the Bronx, and some pics of his layout that he is modeling based on that.
Next was a nice buffet dinner and then Tony Koester's clinic on his NKP. There was some good info on lighting the lower deck, which I am working with right now.
Finally a clinic by Mike Rose on modeling Pa bridges and abutements many of which were former LV.
I hope you enjoy these.
I take it that it is well attended and worth while going to?
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