Sunday the 5th of September of 2021

NEMMRRC · September 05, 2021, 05:05:50 AM

Greetings from Hickory, NC.

I have a narrow gauge convention hangover.

I won three awards at the convention. I took third place with one of my color photos of a model with a picture of a fabulous red barn on the F&SM. I took second place in the square footer with my FSM JS2 George Bailey's Produce I built back when we had a group build at the original forum (that was so much fun). And, I took first place in color photographs of a model with a picture of a covered bridge on the FS&M.

By the way, the awards were made from pieces of a boxcar from the Lawndale Narrow Gauge Railroad. Pretty nifty.

I now have to drive 11 hours back home.

Later.

Jaime

MAP · September 05, 2021, 06:32:54 AM

Good morning! Congratulations Jaime! Well deserved. Neat idea using the boxcar as part of the award.

ACL1504 · September 05, 2021, 06:55:14 AM

Morning all,

Congrats Jamie on your awards, well deserved.

Thanks for all the comments regarding my friends passing. Visited the family yesterday and all is well under the circumstances.

Today I plan to do some layout stuff.

Have a great day ya'll.

Tom

vinceg · September 05, 2021, 07:13:43 AM

Congrats, Jaime. Beautiful modeling and pics.

11 hours...oof.

Good morning, all. More basement cleaning today. Also spending time learning more about Affinity Photo so that I can tune up some images that will be the backdrop behind Monee. I've never really spend time on graphics tools like Photoshop or Illustrator (or Affinity's Photo or Designer). They are insanely powerful once you ascend the learning curve - or so I would imagine.

I really didn't need another hobby......

Zephyrus52246 · September 05, 2021, 07:31:11 AM

Morning, all.

Congrats on the awards, Jaime. Well deserved. Sorry to hear about your friend, Tom. Here it's another workday.

Jeff

cuse · September 05, 2021, 07:47:09 AM

Congrats Jaime, you and George make a great team!

PRR Modeler · September 05, 2021, 08:01:09 AM

Good Morning All,

The wife and I are headed to Dad's today

I hope everyone has a good day.

Opa George · September 05, 2021, 08:05:16 AM

Congratulations, Jaime, on the awards! Your produce building diorama is beautiful.

I'm hoping to attend the model train show in Timonium in about a month. Looks like this show may be a little back to normal. They don't seem to have updated the vendor list yet, though.

Rain today, so hoping to get in more layout time and continue my scenicking work around the automaton factory.

--Opa George

Dennis Bourey · September 05, 2021, 08:09:40 AM

Good morning All! Congratulations Jaime!

S&S RR · September 05, 2021, 08:10:58 AM

Good morning! Congratulations Jaime on your Narrow Gauge Awards, well deserved. And thank you for keeping us all informed. Hopefully we can all meet in Washington next year.

I arrived home last night to find I had my first shipment of scenery supplies from Scenic Express from their new location in Colorado. They have made the long trip and are now shipping, again. I have lots of scenery work planed for this winter, so I have a big box to unpack.

I hope everyone has a great day. Here is another F&SM photograph for inspiration this morning.

vinceg · September 05, 2021, 08:43:39 AM

Quote from: S&S RR on September 05, 2021, 08:10:58 AM
Good morning! Congratulations Jaime on your Narrow Gauge Awards, well deserved. And thank you for keeping us all informed. Hopefully we can all meet in Washington next year.

I arrived home last night to find I had my first shipment of scenery supplies from Scenic Express from their new location in Colorado. They have made the long trip and are now shipping, again. I have lots of scenery work planed for this winter, so I have a big box to unpack.

I hope everyone has a great day. Here is another F&SM photograph for inspiration this morning.

John, I think you have a business opportunity here: the "FSM-a-Day" calendar. Much more fun than a vocabulary word or some Garfield quote.

Raymo · September 05, 2021, 08:51:14 AM

Morning all. Congratulations Jaime on your awards, wish I could have gone. Gonna try and work on my building today..

Jerry · September 05, 2021, 08:52:10 AM

Morning everyone

Jaime congratulations on the awards! Well deserved!!

Cloudy in South Jersey this am. Amild 62.

Hopefully some more work on the Mill.

Everyone have a great day!!

Jerry

GPdemayo · September 05, 2021, 08:56:07 AM

Present

ReadingBob · September 05, 2021, 09:56:24 AM

Morning all,

Well done and well deserved Jamie!

Spent time at the workbench. Sliced a finger with a razor blade. The important thing is no blood got on the build.

Also ran into one of my pet peeves. After chopping a length of strip wood included in the kit to make supports for a structure, per the template, I had nine. I need fourteen. Found a piece of the appropriate size in my stash but now I have stain, paint and whether it to match before I continue.

Have a great one!