This post has been trimmed to better fit with MRH's blog style and to get more to the point for readers.  If you'd like to read the full article on my blog you are welcome to do so here.

Operations up Little Creek

Rather than posting a link to my full review I've decided this topic is of enough interest for people looking to get into photographing or filming their model trains that I've decided to repost the whole thing, but edited to stay within a reasonable length for the MRH website.

If you'd like to see the full length review you are welcome to view it on my website's blog.

I've been sitting on this project now for a couple of months trying to figure out what to do with it.  The project actually started with building the bench work seen above out of scrap pieces of wood laying around in storage.  I'll get into the details of it later, but for the moment the bench work is a self-contained box designed to be a portable exhibition layout. 

I've spent the past year learning how to write better, working, and improving other areas of life (including finishing up my education).  So all my hobbies had to take a back seat for a while.  Anyways, I recently decided to build a full-on movie camera out of my Sony a6100 for upcoming projects.

One problem with Sony cameras is that their normal battery, the NP-FW50 battery does not last very long when recording video.

For the last several days I've been printing like a mad lad for an upcoming large product, but there was some filament at the end of my first 1kg roll that needed to be used up. Rather than waste it or save a bunch of scrap filament, I decided to test out some new part files designed on Fusion 360.  Honestly, I'm quite happy with the results of this testing!

The full blog post can be read on my website here.  What follows is a summary:

My packages have finally arrived!

Guess what I'm doing this evening?

I was recently out of town on a scouting trip to find hunting and fishing locations in eastern Montana.  While I was out on the eastern side, I decided to take a couple hours one day and detour to the extreme western edge of the Soo Line at Whitetail, MT.  Other photos exist of this line, but I haven't seen any taken during the last few years so I was interested in seeing what the track conditions were like.  While the line is not abandoned, there is very little, if any, traffic west of the MT/ND border.  Even so, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the track was

After being out of town for a few days and having thought over my options for 3D printers, I've finally got a printer in the mail and should be delivered any day now.  That printer is the Creality3D Ender 3 V2.  It's the best printer that seems to meet my requirements and offers a balanced set of features that will be useful for printing a variety of different objects, at least on paper.