Hi, I understand Andy's predicament. Many of the PVMR crew is alumni of NTTM in Strasburg, where everything is behind Lexan that can be. The biggest problems we ( PVMR ) had the first yrs were children grabbing and knocking trains, trees, crossing gates, you name it over or down. Sometimes parents corrected them, sometimes they looked to see if we saw them, sometimes they just walked away. As quickly as we could afford to, we bought 4 X 8 sheets of 1/4 in. Lexan from a local glass contractor, who willingly split it into 3 --16" X 96" pieces. Took us a while but we now enclose 2-- 8 X 16 ft layouts PLUS our little THOMAS 4 X 7. NO more damage (normally, altho we have one patron who breaks or steals one little piece each yr ) no more smacked fingers and the resultant tears. Where the Lexan is open, the kids play with a '56 flyer Barrel Loader and well over 90 % of them request permission to reload the barrels. The Lexan is heavy, etc, but well worth every penny it cost ( and the trips up and down the stairs to move it ). Jim " building the NEW "S" world with PVMR " Lyle In a message dated 8/15/2013 1:16:23 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Hi All, I have accepted the fact that any shows we do that someone is most likely going to touch the resin water on the wetlands/swamp. Not to be sexist, but it is most often a female. It used to drive me nuts getting the finger prints off. I discovered that a cloth for cleaning eye glasses works beautifully. No scratches and the grease comes off well. I don't know if it got finger printed at the convention yet because I am cleaning the RR room before I set things up again. It may take a while because I am cataloging blueprints. That is part of being a public display. You have to deal with the public in all their shapes, forms and levels of respect for other people's property. A polite reminder with a smile can be given when someone is doing something unacceptable. Usually they back off. If they don't, set your phaser to stun and remember that Klingon phasers have no stun setting. cheers, Andy Malette ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
