By Syd Schofield

East Side Get Together Clinic Report, November 15, 2018

The November gathering of the East Side Get Together Clinic at the Redmond Community Center commenced promptly at 7:13 Thursday evening by Alex Brikoff.  VIPs in attendance (4D PNR Officers and Master Model Railroaders) were introduced as well as some folks that we haven’t seen for a while. Some upcoming events of interest were announced.

Clinic introduction by Alex Brikoff

The first annual Seattle MOHAI Train Show at the MOHAI Museum (Museum of History and Industry) on south Lake Union will be held over Thanksgiving weekend. There will be three modular groups in attendance as well as a small number of single person displays, all from the 4th Division.
The show hours are: 


    Friday 11/23 –from 10 am until 5 pm.

    Saturday 11/24 – the show from 10 am until 8 pm.

    Sunday 11/25 the show from 10 am until 5 pm.

Volunteers are NEEDED and are asked call Ed Ives 425-391-3313 or e-mail Gresley7@gmail.com.

The Pacific Science Center Train Show is at the Seattle Center during Martin Luther King Day weekend on January 18 through 21. Volunteers are also NEEDED and are asked to contact David Yadock for more information and scheduling.

The March 2019 East Side Get Together Clinic will be our Mini-clinic Event called “How I do Stuff on my Layout”. It will be a series of ten-minute presentations of favorite modeling methods presented by members and attendees of the Eastside Clinic.  Three of six slots are already taken, so we need three more volunteers to round out the evening. The signup sheet will be at clinic through February.

The evening’s presentation was “Create Scale Detail from Online Images” by Bob Rorabaugh. Online photos of “real” materials and details are printed to scale and used to replicate those same details in a representative model scene.  Bob showed his techniques and shared his thoughts on portraying a scene of activity with considerations for viewer perspective with a diorama. Bob also showed and passed around some actual samples of the items he used in his model work.  

Bob’s models with scale detail

Bob giving his presentation

Model of the Month was won by George Chambers for his nicely done sawmill boiler buildings. 

Entries for model of the month


There were some nice model railroad items and artifacts were given out as door prizes. 

The South End Bunch will defer meetings for the next two months due to holiday conflicts.  Meetings will resume in Burien at the Northwest Railroad Archives storefront adjacent to the Boeing Model Railroaders’ layout on 153rd street, a couple blocks from the Electric Train Shop next January.
 
Syd Schofield