By Ted Becker
Topic for April is the finale of Ron Hopkins’ excellent series on scratch building, Part III: Parts and Details. Part III will describe creating a wide range of elements (such as ladders, pallets, chimneys, doors, windows, corbels, roof vents, etc), a few larger bits (like pipe racks, cabinets, and benches), and conclude with some thoughts about interior detailing with examples.
Coming up on April 30 is the Mount Vernon Gabfest and Swapmeet 10am to 3pm at the MV Senior Center. A ton of great items for sale. Most of it HO but other scales represented to. Watch the Grab Iron for a list of merchandise available and final details of the meet. Email me if you have questions: rail.bird@att.net.
The May clinic topic will be The Northern Pacific in Sedro Woolley presented by Kent Sullivan. Kent is an expert on Northern Pacific history. The amount of railroading done by the NP in Sedro Woolley was a surprise to me and Kent does an excellent job of presenting the material with lots of photos and maps.
Beyond May I expect to take the usual summer break and look forward to resuming clinics in September. Keep your fingers crossed that the rumblings about a new uprising of the virus are not true and we can resume in person clinics. For those of you who wish for the Zoom clinics to continue I ask for your help to twist the arm of a volunteer to assist with doing a hybrid presentation. I can do one or the other but not both without help.
4dpnrOrganizer MountVernon is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Mount Vernon Clinic, April 2022
Time: Apr 18, 2022 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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