Category: Eastside Get-Together (Redmond) Clinic

By Alex Brikoff

The March 2019 Eastside Get Together Clinic will meet on March 21, 2019.

The Clinic will meet at the:
Redmond Community Center at Marymoor Village
6505 176TH AVE NE, Rm. 202
REDMOND WA 98052-4930

Doors open at 7:00 PM and meeting starts promptly at 7:15 PM

We will begin by mentioning any noteworthy, upcoming model railroad and railfan events in the area.  We will also have our Model of the Month and Rail Photo of the Month contest.    

Bob Rorabaugh will also have the “Buy ‘n Sell” table available during the evening.   So if you’ve got anything model railroad related you’d like to find a new home for, contact Bob and he’ll help you do that.

This month’s Clinic topic will be our much anticipated: “Eastside Get Together Mini Clinic Event”.  There will be four of us presenting six mini clinics on various model railroading topics.  These mini clinics are designed to give you a glimpse into some of our favorite modeling techniques.  Although they may be just quick techniques, it is still something that is useful to share with our fellow modelers.

Syd Schofield	Wheels and Rails at the Interface	A close-up explanation of how rail and wheels interact with each other at point of contact.
Syd Schofield	Rock Casting Tools and Materials	Tools and materials needed for creating rock castings.
Syd Schofield	Track Guard Rails	Turnouts and Crossings Bridges, Tunnels and Trestles
Russ Segner	Layout Design	Designing layouts for operation
JJ Johnston	Easy Roof Shingling	Overview, tools and technique
CJ Turner	Using Acrylic Paint	Overview, preparation and use

We will have door prizes, refreshments and snacks available as always. 

Alex Brikoff

By Syd Schofield

East Side Get Together Clinic Report, February 21, 2019

The February gathering of the East Side Get Together Clinic at the Redmond Community Center was started promptly at 7:10 PM Thursday evening by Alex Brikoff.  VIPs in attendance (4D PNR Officers and Master Model Railroaders and new attendees) were introduced.   

Some of the significant gatherings and conventions coming up this spring and summer are:

28th Annual United Northwest Washington State Train Show (Monroe Show) – February 23 & 24, 2019

Sn3 Symposium, April 4 – 6, 2019 at Bellevue Sheraton, Bellevue, WA

Kootenay Express, PNR Regional Convention, May 29 – June 2, 2019 in Cranbrook, BC

4^th Division Annual Spring Meet, June 22 at TCC Science Building (Tacoma Community College) from 9 AM to 4 PM

NMRA National Convention, July 7 – 13, 2019 in Salt Lake City, UT

National Narrow Gauge Convention, September 4-7, 2019 in Sacramento, CA

Russ Segner brought several copies of a local early railroad publication assembled by the Northwest Railroad Archives staff.  Copies of the very professionally done book was for sale at $20 and contained very detailed descriptions and illustrations of the Seattle and southeast King County area’s formative years of railroad activity.  Bob Rorabaugh brought several estate sale model railroad items for adoption.  He also noted the application of desktop computer keyboard boxes as storage containers for HO-size rolling stock.  He passed out some free samples of these as well.

The evening’s clinic was a given by local model railroad craftsman, Paul Vaughn, on scratch building a Gauntlet Track.  Paul bestowed his acquired knowledge of scratch building these very unique turnouts without using Fast Track jigs.  He presented slides as well as several colorful large teaching aids to demonstrate the more critical aspects of the necessary turnout construction accuracy based on NMRA Standards.

Model of the Month was awarded to William Alexander for his two “A” F-unit Spokane, Portland and Seattle HO scale diesel locomotives.   

The next meeting will be on March 21, 2019.  Don’t forget that our next clinic will be the much publicized Mini Clinic Event!  Stay tuned for more details!  

Syd

By Alex Brikoff

February 2019 Eastside Get Together Clinic – Redmond
The February 2019 Eastside Get Together Clinic will meet on February 21, 2019.

The Clinic will meet at the:
Redmond Community Center at Marymoor Village
6505 176TH AVE NE, Rm. 202
REDMOND WA 98052-4930

Doors open at 7:00 PM and meeting starts promptly at 7:15 PM

We will begin by mentioning any noteworthy, upcoming model railroad and railfan events in the area. We will also have our Model of the Month and Rail Photo of the Month contest. The sign-up sheet for our “Mini Clinic Event” in March is full. We have six people signed up, so all the slots are gone. Don’t pass up this opportunity to learn modeling techniques from your fellow modelers.

Bob Rorabaugh will also have the “Buy ‘n Sell” table available during the evening. So if you’ve got anything model railroad related you’d like to find a new home for, contact Bob and he’ll help you do that.

This month’s Clinic Topic will be: “Building Stub Turnouts and Other Unique Trackwork”. Paul Vaughn will be here to show us some of his techniques for scratch building turnouts and other unique trackwork such as crossovers, gauntlets and other unique and out of the ordinary track arrangements.

We will have door prizes, refreshments and snacks available as always.

Alex Brikoff

By Syd Schofield

The January gathering of the East Side Get Together Clinic at the Redmond Community Center was started promptly at 7:15 Thursday evening by Alex Brikoff.  VIPs in attendance (4D PNR Officers and Master Model Railroaders) were introduced.   

The March 2019 East Side Get Together Clinic will be our Mini-clinic Event titled “How I do Stuff on my Layout”.  It will be a series of ten-minute presentations of favorite modeling methods presented by six members and attendees of the Eastside Clinic.  All six of the Mini-Clinic slots are already filled.

Model of the Month was awarded to George Chambers for his Kemtron kit-built On3 Shay painted in the Shasta Logging Company of California colors.  Syd took photo honors for several recent pictures of historically significant central Colorado locomotives.

Russ Segner brought several copies of a local early railroad publication assembled by the Northwest Railroad Archives staff.  Copies of the very professionally-done book was for sale at $20.00.  It contains very detailed descriptions and illustrations of the Seattle area early years of railroad activity.

The evening’s program was a given by local craftsmanship authority, Ted Becker.  Ted came down from the Mt. Vernon area to share his knowledge of crafting tools and materials.   Ted’s storage container called “Ted’s Tub” contained many interesting items.  As he picked each item to describe in some detail the use and source, we all learned something of value for the hobby.  Our thanks to Ted for coming to share his knowledge with us. 

The next meeting of the Eastside Get Together Clinic will be on February 21, 2019 at the same location.  Our clinician will be Paul Vaughn.  Paul will be presenting “Building Stub Turnouts and Other Unique Trackwork”.  

Later in February, the South End Group will return to their fourth Thursday of the Month meetings.  Their meeting in February will be Thursday, 2/28/19 in Burien.  It will be at the Northwest Railroad Archives storefront adjacent to the Boeing Model Railroaders’ layout on 153^rd street, a couple blocks from the Electric Train Shop.

Syd Schofield

By Alex Brikoff

The January 2019 Eastside Get Together Clinic will meet on January 17, 2019.  

The Clinic will meet at the:
Redmond Community Center at Marymoor Village
6505 176TH AVE NE, Rm. 202
REDMOND WA 98052-4930

Doors open at 7:00 PM and meeting starts promptly at 7:15 PM

We will begin by mentioning any noteworthy, upcoming model railroad and railfan events in the area.  We will also have our Model of the Month and Rail Photo of the Month contest.  The sign-up sheet for our “Mini Clinic Event” in March will be available once again.  We only have enough time for six clinicians, so the sign up is going to be first come, first serve.  We already have four people signed up, so slots are going fast.  Don’t pass up this opportunity to share your favorite modeling techniques with your fellow modelers.  Meanwhile, be thinking about any favorite modeling techniques that you’d like to share with the group. 

This month’s Clinic Topic will be: “Ted’s Tub of Tips, Tricks & Tools”. Ted Becker will be here from Mt. Vernon to show us some very interesting stuff with his handy tub, bag and tool box full of useful tricks and techniques to make your modeling go a lot easier.  He guarantees that everyone will find at least one thing that will be useful to them in their model work!    

We will have refreshments and snacks available as always. 

Alex

By Syd Schofield

The December gathering of the East Side Get Together Clinic at the Redmond Community Center was started promptly at 7:15 Thursday evening by Alex Brikoff.  VIPs in attendance (4D PNR Officers and Master Model Railroaders) were introduced.   

The Pacific Science Center Train Show is at the Seattle Center during Martin Luther King Day weekend on January 18 through 21.  Volunteers are NEEDED and are asked to contact David Yadock for more information and scheduling.  More details will appear in the Grab Iron as they become available.

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 the clinic through February.

The winning Model of the Month was a tie between an early Japanese brass On3 narrow gauge K-28, the prototype of which is currently on the Durango and Silverton and a HO Union Pacific steam turbine, a retired prototype on display at the Ogden, Utah museum. 

The evening’s program was our annual Christmas Dirty Santa “Gift Exchange”.  Model of the Month winner gets first pick.  Subsequent “pickers” names are drawn one at a time from the door prize name jar.  The interesting twist is that people can “steal” previously picked gifts up to two times whereby the “stealee” gets to pick another gift from the remaining gifts.  A fun time was had by all and some very interesting gifts were exchanged.

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By Alex Brikoff

The December 2018 Eastside Get Together Clinic will meet on December 20, 2018.  

The Clinic will meet at the:
Redmond Community Center at Marymoor Village
6505 176TH AVE NE, Rm. 202
REDMOND WA 98052-4930

Doors open at 7:00 PM and the meeting starts promptly at 7:15 PM.

We will begin by mentioning any noteworthy, upcoming model railroad and railfan events in the area.  We will also have our Model of the Month and Rail Photo of the Month contest.  The sign-up sheet for our “Mini Clinic Event” next March will be available once again.  We only have enough time for six clinicians, so the sign up is going to be first come, first serve.  We already have three people signed up, so slots are going fast.  Don’t pass up this opportunity to share your favorite modeling techniques with your fellow modelers.  Meanwhile, be thinking about any favorite modeling techniques that you’d like to share with the group. 

We will be having our annual Christmas “Dirty Santa Gift Exchange” this month.  Everyone is asked to bring a small gift to participate.  It is requested that the gift be inexpensive (less than $10 – $15 value) and gift wrapped with ONLY the scale marked on it if necessary (no names).

We will have refreshments and snacks available as always.  The winners of the contests will have first choice of gifts from the “Dirty Santa Gift Table”.

Alex Brikoff

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.

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.  

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By Alex Brikoff

The November 2018 Eastside Get Together Clinic will meet on November 15, 2018.

As always, the Clinic will be at the:
Redmond Community Center at Marymoor Village
6505 176TH AVE NE, Rm. 202

REDMOND WA 98052-4930

Doors open at 7:00 PM and meeting starts promptly at 7:15 PM

We will begin by mentioning any noteworthy, upcoming model railroad and railfan events in the area for the fall months ahead. We will also have a Model of the Month contest and Rail Photo of the Month contest. So, please bring your best models and photos for the contests! Winners will have first choice of many fine items from our Door Prize table.

Please note that we will also have a sign-up sheet for our “Mini Clinic Event” next March. We will only have enough time for six clinicians, so the sign up is going to be first come, first serve. Meanwhile, be thinking about any favorite modeling techniques that you’d like to share with the group.

This month’s clinic “Create Scale Detail from Online Images” will be presented by Bob Rorabaugh. Bob will show us how to add a lot of detail to our layouts, dioramas and models. He researches photos of the details online, printing them to the correct scale and then incorporates them into his model work. The result will add an incredible amount of interesting detail to anyone’s modeling. Bob has presented this clinic last spring at the PNR Regional Convention in Portland to a very well receiving audience. He is also a very detail-oriented model builder that has won several model of the month contests in recent times.

We will have refreshments and snacks available as always. We’ll also have a great selection of Door Prizes to give away at the end of the clinic.
Alex

By Syd Schofield

The October gathering of the East Side Get Together at the Redmond Community Center commenced by Alex Brikoff promptly at 7:10 Thursday evening. VIPs in attendance were introduced and upcoming events of interest were announced. Alex also solicited the audience for possible nominees for the Golden Grab Iron Award. This is an annual award to be given to an exemplary 4th Division member at every year’s Spring Meet. Nominees and their bios are to be submitted to Ted Becker at rail.bird@att.net. See the Grab Iron for further details.

Alex also announced plans for an evening of Mini-Clinics, or “How I do Stuff on my Layout” for the March 2019 clinic. Here is a great opportunity, for everyone that wants, to share with us how you do something on your layout or in your model building. Although participation is optional, but if you do participate, these Mini-Clinics are to be no longer than 10 minutes each. We will only have time for five or six mini-clinics. They can be either a short demonstration or short PowerPoint presentation. They can be on any aspect of model railroading that you would like to share with us and tell how you accomplish a certain task or process during your model building, or, just a status report on how your layout is progressing. I will have a sign-up sheet for the Mini-Clinics at the next few clinics.

The evening’s presentation was by Kevin Klettke on “Fleet Weathering” of model railroad rolling stock. The emphasis was to make a production line process to more efficiently and artistically treat the many pieces of equipment we have on our model railroads. In addition to the talk, Kevin showed slides and actual models with the weathering (with rust, dirt and graffiti treatment). He handed out a sheet of helpful hints for those of us not able to take good notes.

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