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David,
Just a FYI, you can get small sample sizes of paint at Home Depot and you don’t have to buy a full quart.
David,
I loved the application of the ground scenery in fast motion, along with description of the materials used in the different layers. I hope to some day be a fraction as good as you are at this. As always I appreciate when you show your mistakes and how to fix them. Fixing mistakes takes far more talent than doing it right the first time. I have learned this from my years in wood working.
A beginner makes many mistakes but can’t fix them.
An intermediate worker makes some mistakes but can fix most of them.
An advanced worker makes very few mistakes but no one will ever know they were fixed.
David you are in this last group of people.
John Armstrong
Hinckley Southern R.R.
Being a curmudgeon, I have to point out one place where paint should have been chipped on the stock car – on the door frames. Surely the animals would have rubbed that area right down to the bare wood.
Otherwise, having a great time at MR summer camp. When’s the wienie roast?
Love the summer camp so far. But it would it would be really nice if you would have the links for the stuff you use in your videos.
Hi David: I’m really enjoying Summer Camp and looking forward to Olympia Part 3! I’ve used Wiseman parts and kits for quite awhile. Are you aware that Keith recently began selling a Surrey Parker log loader kit in O scale? I really liked learning how you scratch built yours (well done!), but now an almost identical example is available commercially, which is a good thing too!
Dear Camp Director David,
I can only imagine the countless hours of travel/setup/shooting/editing you’ve burned through to create the Olympia Summer Camp but the result for us MRVP subscribers is absolutely wonderful !! I especially appreciate the scheduling where we see projects/operations completed in days rather than months. Great work David !!
Summer Camp is a lot of fun! You may have invented something: “Honey, I need to go to Milwaukee for Model Railroad Summer Camp”…
Hello Justin,
Those are San Juan Car Company Star Switch Stands. They come in a 2-pack with one tall and one short stand. They are item no. 5002, and you can order it straight from the manufacturer’s website. Incidentally, I covered them in Log Blog 22, but be careful as I installed half of them backwards on the layout because I wasn’t paying attention. The handle needs to face away from the tracks, as they all do now!
D.
I’m enjoying the series. I was a little surprised that you brought in a dehumidifier to help things dry. In my northern Illinois basement I run two dehumidifiers constantly to keep the humidity level around 50%. This is close to the winter humidity. I learned the hard way what can happen when summer humidity hits a winter built layout
Thanks Lloyd. I shot most of the Summer Camp series over a period of two weeks. It then took another three weeks to edit all the video into the 6 parts – part of the reason why after advertising one week of five videos we switched to two weeks with 6.
Glad you’re enjoying the series. I hope to do something similar again next year, but with more camp directors to share the work… uh, I mean fun!
D.
On the Olympia project, I cannot remember where you got your ground throws from for your turnouts. I am having hard time finding the right ones.
It’s great to see I’m not the only one making mistakes out there! LOL Thanks for showing how to fix a paint/Sculpt-a-mold mishap!
Save the tree for the Sand Creek extension. You could do a project where you turn that tree into a push-button animated feature simulating someone felling the tree. Just an idea. Regardless, the back space would look better open.
I am enjoying summer camp immensely! I like that back area without the tree. I feel like there is a greater sense of open space.
Guess it’s a fancier camp than we ever knew, prolly had fillet mignon fer dinner. That Vallejo stuff works slicker than “Magic Masker”.
Another great video, David! You really do these well! Lot of good ideas! Your log loader is getting even better! Love the pump idea! Love your figures, too! Good figures really make it and are hard to find.
Can’t wait to see the new section! You got me starting one, too. Keep it up!
Looking good David, I have a few Wiseman kits, Wiseman Models makes great stuff for O scale. I like the piping you added to the water tank from the pump, my only thing is, in O scale you see it all. I would put 1/16″ RC striping tape (I use it in O scale a lot) at the elbows (wrap it around once) to look like cast iron pipe and elbows. Then when you paint the piping black it looks great.
I’ll be ready and waiting for day 5, I just hope all the excitement won’t keep me up all night. Of course I could always wonder outside and look at the stars, I’m sure they will be shining bright tonight……..along with the moon………….as long at the rain holds off. Never mind it’s raining now, I guess we have to do inside camp stuff tonight.
Chicken salad! We had peanut butter, not fair. When do we go swimming?
Another fantastic episode by David that shows that European modellers have a lot to learn from MRV Plus. Glad to see that Vallejo is introdused to the American MR community.