Steve, At the Northwest Narrow Gaugers meeting yesterday, several of the guys that had attended the Sn3 Symposium were raving about your layout. You were even compared to George Selios! One of them sent me pictures and videos of your CB&Q, and from the looks of them, I'd have to agree. Thanks for showing the narrow minded, er narrow gaugers, that great modeling can be done in S standard gauge!
Roger Nulton Tacoma, WA ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 6:40 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} FNF on the Q The past couple of weeks has seen a flurry (or is it slurry) of activity on the CB&Q, as the Pines and Prairies brethren helped me prepare and then host two layout tours of the Sn3 Symposium recently. Although they take many, many more hours of preparation, tours are actually a good thing for the progress of my layout. Hadn't hosted a tour since the 2010 National Convention, and I think some things that got misplaced on the layout shortly after that were abandoned in place until the big cleanup for this one last weekend. The Sn3 guys are top modelers and nice guys to boot, and were very complimentary of the urban and rural scenery they saw on my Chicago/Illinois layout. While I received it too late to include in the Sn3 layout tours, I spent this past weekend assembling one of two Monster Model Works 3-story building kits from Jimmy Simmons. I've placed two pictures of the nearly completed structure named Sears & Roebuck in the Photos section under "Doyle." The kit went together really well, and the laser-cut brick walls have a lot of texture which takes weathering really well. All in all, a breeze to assemble. Figuring out what colors to use usually takes longer than the actual assembly. I had to foreshorten the structure by an inch and a half to fit the space, but that was easily done. Did some signage and graphics inside the front windows and still need to add a downspout on the front right side to hide the seam. It'll then receive some vintage signage. The third photo in the album is Sears/Rt66 as it winds through the village of Wataga. I've been experimenting with downloading old neons and signs from Flickr and Google images, and using Corel Paint, reversing the images so I can construct authentic 2-side signs so ubiquitous to small-town America in the '50s. I like the effect so far, but have a lot more to do before I weather Rt 66 and add telephone wires. Not much time before the next two days of layout tours in a week and a half for the Thousand Lakes Region of the NMRA which is here in the Twin Cities. That'll be fun to see and meet guys from scales other than S. After that, maybe some hibernation time as we enjoy our traditional 5 days of summer! Steve Doyle
