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The S Scale Resource June/July 2022 Volume 8 No. 5 is available to read (If direct links fail, use links on the magazine “Bill of Lading”/contents)

6  News You Can Use – New Items of Interest

  • New decal sets are now available… TT-West has completed several sets… for the NYC USRA-design, Specification 486 all-steel boxcar…post-1935 lettering…
  • Forbes Models has a new drop bottom gondola (GAc P&RGondola Drop) available in their Shape Ways Shop…
  • Tru-Color Paint…information for the 3D Printed & cast resin paints and
    aerosols…

10 Time Traveling to Port Dover By Jim Martin

  • … Rails first visited Port Dover harbor in 1878… At its zenith rail operations on the west harbor served a large fish processing plant and a coal yard as well as passenger traffic…

21 Kit Bashing Two B.T.S. Kits Into a General Store and Office By Jon Stetz

27 A Bumblebee for the Rio Grande By Wayne D Hills

  • Modeling a Denver & Rio Grande Western GP-9 in S scale. A project that took 20 years to complete…

43 NewTracks – Modeling with Mentoring from Talented Model Builders and Even from Modelers in Other Hobbies By Contributing Editor Jim Kellow MMR

  • NewTracks Announcements:

    Starting June 2 2022 at 7pm Eastern Time NewTracks will offer a new live stream bi-weekly series every Thursday on its YouTube channel…looking at the modeling and contributions our leading modelers…

     

  • MY BUILD

    …photos modelers shared on our recent March My Build…

     

  • New Weekly Wednesday Show Segments:

    NMRA CLUBS and DIVISIONS Sponsored by the NMRA
    A bi-weekly segment which started April 27 2022…We will be inviting NMRA divisions and clubs from all over the world to talk about what activities and mentoring opportunities they offer..

    Let’s Go To Our Hobby Store… This segment will provide a forum where modelers and hobby shop owners can better underst and each others positions on hobby issues and hopefully help each other solve the issues for both of their benefits…

    Meet a Modeling Inventor
    On our Show June 15 2022 Peeyush Garg of the LocoFi™ Teamwill be our Modeler/Inventor…I hope to expand this segment to include other modelers/inventors and their products…

    Remote Switching Layout Operation
    On July 13th Heath Hurwitz will show us his small 48 x 10 switching puzzle he calls Human City Junction a variation on John Allen’s Timesaver

  • Build Alongs

    Starting May 25, 2022, Chris Coarse owner of Conowingo Models… will be building…KELLOW STATION

    Starting June 1 2022 Bill Banta owner of Banta Modelworks will start a Build Along of his Banta model On30 Caboose kit…

    Starting July 13th a Two Step Modeling BUILD ALONG with Earl Hackett.
    Step 1 A CAD produced Model…
    Step 2 Get the CAD parts printed and build the model…

    Starting July 20 2022 a Build Along of a Paul Egri Card model by John Thomas Reynolds…

    Starting August 17 2022 Bruce Nickerson owner of Sea Port Model Works will start building his kit #H136WAWaterline kit of a 53 Coastal Steam Passenger Ferry in HO scale…

    August 24 2022 Arron Piotraschke owner of Apogee Locomotive Works will build one of his (ALW) locomotive kits…

    Starting August 31 2022 Richard Rands owner of Berkshire Valley Models will join with Martin Brechbiel MMR to build his On30, On3 Ore car kit…

    Starting October 5 2022 Kevin Macomber owner of the Narrow Gauge Modeling Company (NGNC) will begin a BUILD ALONG with Martin Brechbiel MMR of one of his Wagon kits…

    Starting November 16, 2022, Alan Rogers, owner of New Creations Victorian Railroad Buildings, will begin a Build Along of his kit for the St Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church of Ocean City, Maryland…

  • Watch Me Build

    July 6 2022 Pat Rivard and Paul Hurly will do a segment, Making Coniferous Trees…

  • Now let’s meet some modelers…

    Bob Davidson
    … originally from New York City (born
    in Brooklyn raised in Queens)… I’m now working on a 12 x 8 freelanced layout based on a short line in Brooklyn, NY. One of the highlights of the new layout is an elevated subway (an oxymoron I know)…

    Jon Stetz MMR 251
    I primarily build in S scale for model railroading but I also build 1/35 WWI & II armor, 1/24th car dioramas, and HOscale dioramas I’m currently building a portable On30 banana plantation to seaport
    theme railroad.

    Daniel Lutz
    I’m retired from EMS. I’ve spent my life doing many jobs such as Computer Network Consultant, Deputy Sheriff, many
    different Security Gigs. I have enjoyed many hobbies over the years, plastic military models, RC airplanes, Drone Pilot, model rocketry, HAM-radio operator, KN4OTY, photograph, and, of course, Model Railroads…

    Neil Harwicke
    Once I finished school and was established in my profession, I had more time to become immersed in the hobby. I tried a small switching layout, but it didnt hold my interest. I found building structures more challenging and satisfying. I bought a copy ofGeorge Sellios’s Franklin & South Manchester RR (V. 1) and studied it as if I were going to be tested on it…

     

65 Tips &Tricks By Tom Lennon

  • PermaBilt ladder, grab iron jig…

67 S Scale West Wrap Up
By Amy and Dan Dawdy

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…

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