Category: Eastside Get-Together (Redmond) Clinic

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

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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.

Clinic introduction by Alex Brikoff

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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By Alex Brikoff

The October 2018 Eastside Get Together Clinic will meet on October 18, 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.

This month’s clinic “Weathering Fleets of Cars” will be presented by Kevin Klettke. We’ve all seen and heard of many techniques that modelers use to weather their locomotives and cars, but Kevin uses his methods and techniques to weather many rolling stock and locomotives at once in a relatively short amount of time. Kevin’s own Washington Northern Railroad in Tacoma is a great example of his outstanding modeling skills where he puts an incredible amount of realism in a smaller layout.

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 Brikoff

By Syd Schofield, photo by Anton Faulk

East Side Get Together, September 20, 2018

After the summer break, the East Side Get Together Clinic got together at the Redmond Community Center.  Alex Brikoff called the group of interested railroad enthusiasts to a low murmur around 7:15 Thursday evening.  VIPs in attendance were introduced and upcoming events of interest were announced.  See the Grab Iron for those details.
 
The evening’s presentations were on summer railroad-related activities.  Robin Peel presented a summary of his trip to the 2018 Sn3 Symposium in Minneapolis this past summer. Robin then announced that the 2019 Sn3 Symposium will be held in Bellevue, WA next April 4-6, 2019. He also announced that the 2022 National Narrow Gauge Convention will be held in the Puget Sound area, location and details are still TBD. Two European railroads, in Norway and Spain, were presented with slide shows and narrations as well as a collection of pictures and videos of western US.  Photos from a trip through the Panama Canal were presented, showing the unique locomotives used to pull various vessels through the locks at the canal. A recap of the NMRA National Convention in Kansas City, MO was given by Alex.
 
Model of the Month was won by Ted Becker with his two-story frame house, nicely built and weathered.  Anton Faulk showed a picture he took of a railroad tunnel-bridge-tunnel across a shear canyon walled abyss (complete with train) in Spain.  Equally spectacular was his vantage point for the photo on a suspended walkway “trail” on the cliff wall.

Photo of the month winner. A Renfe Avant train through El Chorro gorge in Spain.

By Alex Brikoff

Welcome back everyone!

The September 2018 Eastside Get Together Clinic will meet on September 20, 2018.
As always, the Clinic is 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.

This month’s clinic will be “What I did on my Summer Vacation, Railroad-wise” and moderated by Alex Brikoff. This will be a round robin where everyone in the room will have a few minutes to tell the rest of the group what they did over the summer months in terms of model building, railfanning or anything else that has to do with railroading. I encourage everyone to bring photos on a flash drive to go along with your talk since we will have a projector there. Participation is optional but encouraged! I will talk first about our trip last month to the NMRA National Convention in Kansas City, MO.

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.

See you there!

by Alex Brikoff

The June 2018 Eastside Get Together Clinic will meet on June 21, 2018. This will be our last clinic before summer break! We will start up again in September.

As always, the Clinic is at the: Redmond Community Center at Marymoor Village, 6505 176^th 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 summer months ahead. We will also have our 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.

This month’s clinic will be “Railways in Brisbane” and presented by John Morrison. In his clinic, he will be discussing Australia’s three primary gauge railway problem, the history of this, and what’s being done to alleviate it. He will also describe the Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane commuter rail systems, including some of their history and how dual gauge is handled in Melbourne and Brisbane’s main terminals. This promises to be a very interesting clinic.

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.

Have a great summer and see you here again in September!

by Alex Brikoff

The May 2018 Eastside Get Together Clinic will meet on May 17, 2018.
Don’t forget that the Clinic is 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 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.

This month’s clinic will be “Modeling Prototype Scenes” and presented by Max Maginness. In his clinic, Max will show how he models scenes on his layout based on a prototype gauge in New Zealand. It works out to be a metric gauge where just about everything must be scratch built as there is very little if any commercially available products in this scale. Max is an MMR and an outstanding model builder. This promises to be a very interesting clinic.

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.

See you there!

by Alex Brikoff

The February 2018 Eastside Get Together Clinic will meet on February 15, 2018.
Don’t forget our NEW LOCATION at:
Lake Washington Institute of Technology, Redmond Campus
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 contest and Rail Photo of the Month contest. So, please bring your best models and photos for the contests!

Our clinic this month will be “Milwaukee Operations Near Bellingham and Whatcom County” by Jonathan Fischer. This clinic will be a historical slide show that will take us on a trip back to the 1970’s to tour Milwaukee Road operations in and around Bellingham, WA and Whatcom County. Jonathan is involved with the Milwaukee Historical Society and has shown this and other Milwaukee themed presentations at their meetings.

We will have refreshments and snacks available. We’ll also have a great selection of Door Prizes to give away at the end of the clinic. See you there!!