Modeling general discussion
Today's disaster in model railroad.
So I'm working on buildings for my TOMA project. I usually place my bottle of styrene glue in a roll of tape to prevent accidental knock overs. My bottle was only 1\3 full, so I had it in my left hand so I could tilt it to get glue on the brush. I also had the part I was gluing in my left hand.
3D pens
I was wondering if anyone has tried using one of the new 3D pens that are hitting the market. My thoughts have been towards using one to make some interesting trees for starters. The plastic filament seems to be fairly sturdy and the pen allows you to go vertical with strands of plastic fairly easily. I will give it a try and post some photos
Perhaps a reason young people don't come to events?
I encountered a person wanting to get into the hobby who’s in his 20s the other day and he looked at photos of my layout. I invited him to come by to look if he wanted. He asked about other layouts in the general area, but was specific about the owners being somewhere in my age range (I’m in my late 40s) or younger. I asked why, and he stated he’d tried to join two clubs (he wouldn’t say which ones as he admitted he didn’t want to offend me if I knew the people he was talking about) but changed his mind after being around the members.
Modelbuilder alternatives
Whenever cardstock modeling is discussed someone mentions modelbuilder -- which I have used for a number of years. It is a good program -- however it is very restrictive. One cannot export files -- they have an mb extension which nothing that I know of opens. Has anyone figured out a way around this? I would like to export so that I can use the print and cut function on my Cricut? Alternatively, is there another software package which will let me import textures, and photos of building parts, etc, and have alignment, "back to front, front to back func
Creality 3D® CR-10S 3D Printer Kit (Updated the title)
I would like feedback on this (Monoprice Maker Select Ultimate 3D Printer)
if anybody has one or knows about it.
Eyesight, dexterity, and kit building.
I have a mind to undertake something over the holidays that I haven’t done in quite a while to due having to move a few times and the lure of buying RTR rolling stock not to mention building layouts and dioramas… going to actually put together a kit.
The last time I put a rolling stock kit together was with the aid of readers, nowadays a magnifier is required. It will be interesting to see how my current dexterity is.
Note to manufacturers
I just thought I would share a thought regarding vendors and electronic sales receipts. In our modern day and age we buy many products on line and then need to print receipts. Why do we need a two or three page receipt for one item? I suspect that a much better system could be developed that would keep most of the useless dead space to one page. If I can put all pertinent info on a post it note that is about 2 x 2 inches how hard could it be for them to put it all on one 8 x 11 sheet? A much more compact receipt should be able to be developed.
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM BELGIUM
Merry Christmas for everybody from Belgium and from the population of my Maclau River RR
Marc
A view of Anabel Ferry coming from the port of the GD lines
A small train going to Alexander Yard
Fox valley models..defective
just got a brand new fox valley gp 60 ho scale..front feeder wires to the truck are not connected, not sure if I should fix it, or send it back ?...last time I buy from them....
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