Greg Wright

On October 14 at the Olympia Clinic Chuck Ricketts will be presenting: Using Computers to Build Paper Structures.

Chuck received an American Flyer electric train on his first birthday. He was running it himself by age three and received a Lionel train at the end of WWII. A few years later, he switched to HO scale. Over the years, he modeled in HO, N and HOn3. Since 2006, he has been in On30 and started his current home layout in Washington in 2007. He recently achieved the NMRA Master Model Railroader status (MMR number 562). His railroad, the Sherwood, Shelton and Sarazen, has been viewed by people from all over the world who attended the National Narrow Gauge Convention in 2012.

(Editor’s note: A photo of the wharf scene on Chuck’s layout is the first layout image on the 4D web site. Click here to see a previous Grab Iron post about operating on the Sherwood, Shelton and Sarazen.)

Chuck has worked in various fields during his life. He has worked in the family grocery as a kid, owned a photo studio, served in military intelligence, worked in finance and taught technical theater for years in college. He has managed theatrical supply sales, been a general contractor and finally a tax preparer and teacher in semi-retirement. Now he mostly just enjoys retirement, travelling and his railroading.

Chuck’s clinic will include using photos, images, and commercial software to make structures, backgrounds and parts for buildings as used on his model railroad. There will be samples and a PowerPoint presentation showing some of the techniques and results.

Join us at 7:00 pm on October 14, 2016. Bring a model to show and share.

We are at the Thurston County Court House, 2000 Lakeridge Drive SW. Building 1, Room 152. Click here for additional information, including a map.