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There goes the rest of my afternoon...

There I was making great progress on the layout and I happened to check the TMTV site to see if the new show segment was posted.

Not only is the new show posted, but 2 more Mike Confalone videos are up! (from the Modeling outside the box series)

oh well!

I just watched the first backdrop painting episode. Very enjoyable!

Lionel Strang is, to say the least, unconventional as a video host. But he is absolutely outstanding in that role! His rather droll sense of humor jumps out of the screen at the viewer (at least, at this viewer) and adds tremendously to the watchability of The Backshop episodes.

I've seen the earlier episodes of The Backshop, and each is better than the last.

Great job, Lionel!

We had hoped to have the Mike Confalone interview video come to TrainMasters on or about the 20th of Jan, but unfortunately, that's not going to happen as planned. It will be delayed by at least a week.

Mike's layout room has areas of darker and lighter lighting, and the video used room lighting rather than special lights. That meant we had to do a number of special tricks to get the shadow area details to show reasonably well without blowing out the whites like the melting snow piles.