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March 04, 2008 Podcast Topics
0:00:00 On this month’s Podcast we interview Tony Koester, & Leo Terrien. Brian Bollinger fills in for the vacationing Dave Frary.
0:02:13 CSS08 updates
*Show dates, preliminary plans, feedback from folks
*New Dealers: Peace Valley Scale Models, FSM Kits, Moose Miniatures, Crusader Rail, Raggs... To Riches
*Brian Bollinger fills in for the vacation Dave Frary
*Birthdays: Doug Foscale March 3rd, Dave Frary March 8th?, Kelly Mason turns 18, Karl Sholtz Feb 28th.
*CSS08 website is updated w/ clinics
*No buses to The Franklin & South Manchester open house
*Brian will be attending every CSS show in the future
0:12:27 Current Events (Monthly magazines; RMC, Scale Rails, MR News)
*Scale Rails is not Scott's cup of tea, Building a model railroad photography studio
*CSS07 Magazine is finally at the printer
*RMC 75th anniversary, Scott's DVD review, another Mike Rose article.
*Craig Bisgeier's website review of Scotty's DVD's,
*Atlas MR catalog quartly FREE subscription - Sign Up
*MR News get's Scott's approval! Circulation reaches 20,000, 3 Free Issue Subscription
0:22:35 Leo Terrien of Crow River Products
*1982 Crow River makes their 1st kit
*Husband & Wife team of Randi & Leo
*What do they specialize in?, The Crow River equipment list.
*How is a cast detail part made?
*Why specialize in machines?
*Thomas Yorke influence, Why resin over hydrocal?, Bob Van Gelder's method of dropping kit's from a 2nd floor window!
*Cost of resin vs. hydrocal
*Leo's hobbies: making working small steam engines, & building guitars. A full size boat.
*New products: HO scale stiff leg derrick, hoisting equipment, shed, O scale coreless steam engine, O scale dredge & barge.
* www.crowriverproducts.com
*Randi has a thing about MENSA members
0:43:33 Main Topic of Discussion: The Top Ten Model Railroads of the Scotty Mason Show's crew
*Will The Franklin & South Manchester be featured in MR's All-Time greatest layouts?
*Our guest co-host Brian begins with his fav's:
* Jimmy's Favorites include
*Doug mentions the plan for Jimmy to be thrown down the stairs in April to view Dick Elwell's Hoosac Valley Lines. Scott tell's a horrifying story of Jimmy nearly dying at Doug's house. The drunken mai-tai ramp icident. Firemen may be needed at Dick's. Sledding into Dick's basement.
*Doug's Favorites
*Scotty's Best - list of 11
*Doug mention's that without magazines like MR, we wouldn't know about these layouts Scott talks about RR-L forum member Tim Kerkhoff's Overland Green River Basin RR coming soon, (hopefully) to a magazine near you.
1:16:18 Part 1 of a 3 part interview with Tony Koester; editor, author, & famed model railroader
*Tony tells about his start in the hobby. His mom, friends, Purdue University
*Founding The Nickel Plate Historical & Technical Society - A start in writing for the hobby
*His start at RMC & Hal Carstens.
*His first layout
*Operating railroad's & Tony's operating planning
*Meeting Allen McClelland in 1970 and becoming friends
*How his Allegheny Midland layout is a somewhat clone of the V&O.
*The "Beyond The Basement" concept - connect your layout with others.
*The V&O series at RMC. A ground breaking series of articles.
*You can't tell someone his layout is crap, can you? Tony's at a loss of words.
*Allen McClelland's final open house. The end of the V&O?
*Why hasn't anyone published a story like the V&O?
*The NKP book, Fall 2008. The Allegheny Midland story is coming soon.
*TUNE IN TO THE APRIL PODCAST FOR PART II OF TONY'S INTERVIEW
2:01:06 Tips and Techniques: Doug's Water Techinques, Scott's Tree's
*Making ocean water using gel medium instead of resin
*Paint the surface, coat w/ Minwax© varnish, GE Silicone Caulk©
*Dry brush white caps on waves
*Doug's water technique pictures
*Scott build's Peppergrass tree's AKA Candytuft
*Clump them together, paint them, cut the stalks off. Floral Tape them.
*Drill a hole. Drop them in. Easy! Available here $110 a case - will make hundreds of trees
2:11:00 Product reviews:
*Ed Fulasz Old Stone Warehouse kit #8 $59.
*Textures. Scenic Express sell's Heki Texture Forest Floor Blend
*Silflor Horestail flock detail
*Praire Tufts grass / weeds
*Download, or order, the latest Scenic Express catalog free!
2:19:37 Update On Personal Projects
*Brian is working on a structure for Dave's Nantucket project.
*Brian: No layout yet.
*New kits in the works based on Arizona prototypes
*BEST's newest release "Goodridge's Shoemaker Shop" is under $20 - a great first timer's craftsman kit
*Dave sent progress pictures to Scotty of the Nantucket project. The scheduled is on time. The delivery is planned.
*Doug's working on his layout. Busy building seawalls.
*Jimmy's layout. New structures. Whitinsville Spinning Ring is finally getting built. (by Brian)
*Scott got his FREE MR DVD & commemorative coin.
*Preparing for his April 5th open house
*Direct Buy is 99.9% finished - Rich B. took photo's of the layout.
*Scott's pet rat in his freezer until the funeral this spring (Really!)
*Will Dave cook the rat at Scotty's 4th of July party?
*Direct Buy layout leaves for Florida March 7th
2:35:07 Events & Shows Coming Soon
*April 12th NMRA Hub Division 50th Anniversary Spring TRAINing show featuring many prominent clinicians and Scott too.
*Model Railroad Symposium April 18th and 19th. South Bend, Indiana - Proto Meet
1:55:20 Reader Feedback and e-mails (Yes, we’ve gotten several)
*Brett Gallant correct's Dave's statement. Brett makes all his castings.
*Ray Schofield tells us there is no "Little Roady" show this year, and reminds Scott to mention the April 5th open house's (See the RR-L Forums thread here)
*Our condolences to Karl Scholz regarding the passing of his dad.
*Joe Rutter writes in and explains Rapido's new "Totally Wired" telephone poles & how they'll come out of the package. There is a new YouTube video on them here.
*Doug Menke is a new listener and offers some future DCC help for show listeners.
*Robert Morrison tell's us that DCC uncoupling is available, but at about $100 per installation.
*Chris Hopper defends MR's feature on a model railroad from Japan. He also asks about the '09 NMRA convention and the craftsman kit presense that will be there. Inquires about local hobby shops around CSS08.
*Dave Emery of Reston, VA tell's us the Timonium RR show was packed. He defends Scale Rails Magazine. He's been playing with "Guash" <--- Spelling? We're not sure what that is, but Scotty thinks it's an artists medium of some sort. We are lost without Frary!
*Tony Burgess tell's about his experience in buying poor quality castings copied from FSM originals, and his reasoning for not switching to DCC.
*George Sellio's is asking that people stop calling him just for old kit plans & templates. He doesn't keep them.
*The guy's discuss kit copying on older, out of production kits
Next month is Episode 13 & the show's 1 year Anniversary!
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