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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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