I’m away from home all week for business, so to keep myself occupied I had a great idea - take a few of my backlog of kits and my toolbox and work on those. I figured 3 kits would be enough. Or not - I already finished one.
–Randy
Any hobby shops nearby wherever you’re at on business?
Detail them. Weather them. Stick little outdoor sockets on them------
Either that --or—hope for a good Not So LHS nearby.
Then again–you can go on a 2 day Lent----[:D][:-^]
Press hard onto the next two, Randy. That way, you’ll learn a good lesson…AND…you’ll be that much keener at the bit when you return home.
[:P]
Go to a Rod Stewart concert and work on one there, when the audience raises their Bics lit raise your kit instead.
Rod will see that instantly
John Page, a 1940s-1950s editor of Model Railroader magazine, told of being visited in his office by a mister Vaughn Monroe, a crooner and bandleader of some note of that era. Mr Monroe was also a model railroader and he carried with him when his band was on tour a briefcase which contained a workbench on which Mr Monroe assembled models in his hotel room after the evenings performance.
Now this was before the days of shake-the-box plastic kits. In those days when you assembled a kit . . . . . . . . . . you assembled a kit! Mr Monroe reflected that he tried to take with him enough kits to last for the tour but sometimes he misjudged that and had to purchase one while on the road. It was, he reflected, a great way to visit hobby shops which he had done in about forty states. Most of the locomotives and rolling stock running on his home layout–which was somewhere in the Boston, Mass area I understand–had been built while Mr. Monroe was on the road touring with his band.
I recall a geologist when sitting wells in far Northern Alberta would take locomotive kits and build them when on deep wells, sometimes 3 - 4 weeks at a shift. Nice that an oil company helped pay for someones hobby, beats sitting in a trailer with a bottle of rum eh?
Actually, I did find one that seems to have a HUGE train collection. Bad news, it’s at elast a half hour away and they close at 6pm - I’m not done a work until 5.
–Randy
Precisely the story I remembered that made me think of taking a few kits along on this trip.
–Randy
What I SHOULD have done is brought some slightly more difficult kits. Since I just grabbed my entire model building toolbox rather than pick and choose specific tools, I have everything I’d need to build somethign a bit harder than a Branchline Yardmaster. Say, one of my P2K tank cars.
My next real challenge, I picked up a couple of F&C resin kits last weekend. The Reading gons will be a stretch to have on my era layout, although some were converted to tie cars for MOW trains, which is probably what I’ll do. The LNE covered cement hopper will fit right in, but it’s the older flat kit version, not the nice new ones with the covered hopper body cast in one piece. Should be interesting, if not time consuming, cleaning off all that flash.
–Randy
Do you have time (lunch, coffee break) to give them a call and see if they will stay open a little later for you?
Tom