Al Babinsky / Photos by Chip Van Gilder
MMR Gene Swanson opened the first clinic for this season with an attendance of 36 modelers. Gene announced that we would be getting new badges and turned to Wain Miller to explain the process. Wain explained that he would pass a clipboard around for the next three clinics to get as many names as possible to make up a roster and to issue new photo badges. Walt Huston gave a special 4D president’s award to Jim Sabol and a president’s special service award to Gene Swanson.
George Bourcier from Tacoma Trains presented what’s new at the hobby shop and had a collection of items from the last few months. Woodland scenic with ready to use structures in O and HO scale, Roundhouse with short passenger cars, Athearn with trailer cars, lighted caboose, Freightliner, Texaco, Oscar Mayer trucks, Microtrains with Milwaukee Road passenger cars and log cars.
Bring and Brag (model of the month) had a number of entrants: Chris Clancey with a U18B formerly CSX diesel and a wood deck flat car both heavily weathered; Dale Kraus with gondola converted into open passenger car, named by its former owner a Buffalo hunting car, and a kit bashed depot for his narrow gauge railroad; Walt Huston with a set of Microtrains log cars, one in its out-of-the-box appearance and the rest weathered and decaled; Scott Groft with a Bachmann On30 Porter kit bashed into a Forney with car display case; Paul Vaughn with rebuilt gondola; John Bunten with an 1829 Stevensen Rocket of the Manchester Railroad built from a kit; and Al Babinsky with a ME-321 Gigant (Giant) cargo glider capable of carrying 24 tons and an IHC 4-4-0 belonging to Gene Swanson in which he installed a Tsunami micro decoder and speaker and a micro LED in the headlight.
We had two winners for our contest: Chris Clancey and John Bunten.
Model of the Month Winner
The clinic for this month was by Chip Van Gilder on his five steps to better photography. This is a very interesting PowerPoint presentation on how to make a good photo better by showing the before and after pictures and how it was done to get the result. He explained that a lot of photo programs can do some of the things but to get the best results you need a very good program such as the CS5 program that he uses. A well done and excellent clinic, thanks Chip.
The clinic for October is the making of a Rail Fan DVD; it will be given by Jim Sabol. We will be at our usual place, the Pierce County Library Admin. Bldg. at 112th Street and Waller Road at 7:30 PM on October 10. Hope to see you there. Bring a friend, a modeler and/or your better half. Until then, happy railroading.
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