O Scale Resource May/June 2022 Volume 9 No. 5

5  News You Can Use – New Items of Interest

• Roger Lewis from Wasatch Model Company sent us  photos ofthe CZ cars in  production…
• Mr Muffin’s Trains has the new Schomberg Scale Structures – Locomotive Tender Tank in stock…
• Ross Dando says Twin Star Cars and Modern Era O now have a website…
• Ed Skuchas of Berkshire Car Shop has some great new products  Ed says…
• When trains were really trains  describes this new  book featuring the creative  photographic talents of Howard Serig…
• The Model Railroad Resource has  begun selling a line of 3D  printed signals and signal/relay kits…
• New from Richard Rands and Berkshire Valley Models #682 Mail Bags…
• Jon Cagle of Southern Car &Foundry sent us a new announcement…O Scale …Howe Truss Boxcar Kit…
• Great news from Scale City Designs  American Standard Passenger Kits are  back…
• The Spring 2022 Atlas O Premier Catalog is available…
• The All Nation Line is happy to announce the release ofthe O Scale Windsplitter kit for beginning model  builders…
• Here’s the new product information from Tru-Color Paint…

16  Chicago March Meet Wrap Up By Dan  Dawdy

• It’s been two years since the Last March Meet. The Hills retired from the show.  COVID-19 hit hard and no one knew if anyone would try and  pick up the show.

Well someone did…

26 March Meet Contest Results By Dan  Dawdy

36  Strasburg 2 Rail Train Show Wrap Up By Amy and Dan  Dawdy

41  Taming Woodland Scenics Field Grass By George  Paxon

• …grass has been the hardest to model realistically for me for many years.

This is  particularly so for wild grass…

50  Punta Cayo A Tropical Railroad of a whimsical nature By Jon Stetz

• …While I’m in the  planning stages of my next railroad, and with so many new scenery product, techniques, and building materials available (particularly foam and roadbed  products), I thought it would be a good idea to build a small test railroad, to not only try these items but come up with a way to  build my next railroad backwards from the  back to the front, primary scenes and scenery first, and then trackwork and foreground scenes, and scenery last…

62  Scenery from the Ground Up By Biagio  Pace

• Making of the ground mix, Making of scale leaves, Ballast and Riprap, Making rocks, Building of the mountain area, Placement of the foam, Blasted RockWall Fabrication, Adding the leaves, Painting the rocks castings, Trees/Bushes, Populating the Mountain Area

72  NewTracks  Model Railroading Economic Development and Some Possible Mentors By Contributing  Editor  Jim  Kellow  MMR

• New Tracks  Announcements
  • …photos modelers shared on our March My Build…
  • William KWalthers Inc  2022 College  Scholarships…
• … Saturday Scratchbuilding Workshops…
• New Wednesday segments and specials:
  • …NMRA Clubs and Divisions
  • A bi-weekly Segment starting April 27…
  • …Hobby Shops and Modelers Working Together. Starting October 19…
  • …An Inventor Segment. June 15…
  • …Learn to Remotely Operate a Switching Layout. On July 13th…
• Upcoming Build Along segments…
• Other Regular Modeling Segments on our Zoom shows…
• Economic Development for the JN&P RR. Critters International Corporation…
• Now let’s meet some modelers and see their modeling:
  • Michael Kreiser

Born in 1982 in Eastern German…I offer custom  painting  weathering DCC and sound installation  and make my own decals and  parts…

• • Now for some storytelling.  Please meet Joseph Giunto

…Touch of the Brush Model Weathering was founded in August 2017 as a  business of service weathering trains for a few friends…

…The  business and I were interviewed  by Lionel Strang of A Modeler’s Life Podcast. I am a member of the YouTube Model Builders (now Model Railroading Live) on YouTube…

92  Backshop Solutions By Ross  Dando

• Product projects…

96 What’s On YourWorkbench By Jon Stetz

• … my latest  project  based off a  Leaning Tree  card. All built from scratch using  plastics in 1/48th scale with LED lighting…

 

We’re putting the “modeling” back in Model Railroading!^®

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