Sn3 Symposium 2010 - Houston
Clinics &
Clinicians …updated on 2/3/10
|
Day
and Time |
Room
A |
Clinic |
Room
B |
Clinic |
|
Wed
7 PM |
Tracy
Mitchell |
Tools
of the Trade |
Jim
Lemmond |
Building
a DCC Layout from Scratch |
|
Wed
8:30 PM |
Steve
Amitrano |
Painting
and Weathering Locomotives |
Kenneth
Ehlers |
Digital
Model Photography |
|
Thurs
8:30 AM |
Jim
Vail |
Building
Stuff -Trestle Structure Scene |
John
& Mike McKenzie |
Tree
Making 101 - A Closer Look… |
|
Thurs
10 AM |
Barry
Bogs |
Making
Urethane Castings |
Craig
Brantley |
Layout
Design 101 |
|
Thurs
7 PM |
Barry
Bogs |
Making
Urethane Castings |
Chuck
Lind/Tracy Mitchell |
Southern
Forest Heritage Museum |
|
Thurs
8:30 PM |
Jim
Vail |
Building
Stuff -Trestle Structure Scene |
Everett
Lueck |
Locomotives
of Long Leaf LA |
|
Fri
8:30 AM |
Steve
Sandifer/Jim Hinds |
Fun
with LED's |
Chuck
Lind |
How
to Clutter up your Layout |
|
Fri
10 AM |
John
& Mike McKenzie |
Tree
Making 101 - A Closer Look… |
Kenneth
Ehlers |
Digital
Model Photography |
|
Fri
7 PM |
Jimmy
Booth |
Weathering
RTR Freight Cars |
Steve
Sandifer/Jim Hinds |
LED's |
|
Fri
8:30 PM |
Loren
Neufeld |
Scenery
101 and 102 |
Steve
Amitrano |
Painting
and Weathering Locomotives |
|
Sat
8:30 AM |
Tracy
Mitchell |
SPNG
Slide Show |
Craig
Brantley |
Layout
Design 101 |
|
Sat
10 AM |
Al
Boos |
Drag
Them Logs |
Paul
Cesak |
Fast
Tracks Jigs |
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Sn3 Symposium
Clinic Synopsis
Steve Amitrano – Painting and Weathering Locomotives
Wed 8:30PM, Fri 8:30AM
This clinic will cover painting and weathering
brass locomotives using an airbrush and a wide variety of other weathering
techniques. Steve is a well known Sn3
custom painter and presents great information.
Barry Bogs – Making Urethane
Castings
Thurs 10AM and 7PM
Need a fleet of freight cars and there are no
kits available? Barry Bogs will show you
how to make masters, RTV molds, castings, prepping and painting the castings,
and methods for using them. Barry models
in G scale and has cast one piece high side gondolas! A must see.
Al Boos – Drag Them Logs
Sat 10AM
This
clinic will look at photos of many types of prototype skidders, yarders, hoists
and donkeys and models of the same. Al
will cover some kits and parts in metal, urethane, and wood available to model/kitbash these types of machines. Techniques on coloring and aging/weathering
will be included
Jimmy Booth – Weathering RTR
Freight Cars
Fri 7PM
See how the master of PBL foreground models
weathers using a variety of materials and techniques.
Craig
Brantley
– Layout Design 101
Thurs 10AM, Sat 8:30 AM
Planning your next layout? You need a plan first! Craig will show you how with considerations,
tips and tricks for designing your railroad.
The information presented will be beneficial for novices to experienced
builders.
Paul Cesak – Building Faultless
Turnouts Utilizing Fast Track Jigs
Sat 10AM
Fast
Tracks Jigs make it easy to hand lay great looking, smooth running, single
and dual-gauge switches, wyes and 3-way switches as well as straight
and curved trackwork, using their close tolerance
aluminum jigs. I have personally built and hand laid over 100 turnouts the old
fashioned way and I will never go back. I'm not even sure when I last used a
track gauge. Using the Fast Track fixtures, trackwork
looks better and operates flawlessly. Come see just how easy it is as we build
a Sn3 #6 turnout. A drawing of
the switch will be available at the end of the clinic.
Kenneth Ehlers – Digital Model
Photography
Wed 8:30PM, Friday 10AM
Ken Ehlers will discuss photo techniques and
software used to produce publishable photos.
Ken has won numerous National Narrow Gauge Conventions model photography
and model contests.
Jim Hinds / Steve Sandifer – LED’s For Model Railroads
Friday 8:30AM and 7PM
Jim Hinds is
an electronics engineer with experience in the design and electronics behind
LEDs. "He is a consultant to numerous manufacturers and provides LEDs and
LED circuits to the model community. Steve Sandifer has been using Jim’s 603 LEDs for HO
scale structure lighting, street lighting, and to illuminate various railway
lanterns and marker lamps. They will demonstrate some ways to use LEDs in scale
modeling. You won’t believe what you are
seeing!
Jim Lemmond – Building a DCC
Layout from Scratch
Wed 7PM
So you are going to plan a new railroad
layout. What are the considerations necessary before you lay track and run the
railroad? This clinic will outline some basic
considerations a builder might consider before construction. The clinic will have lists of construction
materials, tools, and electronic equipment with various sources of these items. The Cedartap
Railroad on the layout tour is a result of these considerations and methods.
Chuck Lind – How to Clutter up
Your Layout
Fri 8:30AM
Chuck will show you how to take your layout
to the next level. The clinic will go over some of the common problems I have
seen while visiting layouts and how to avoid or fix them. Detailing your layout with more realistic
mini scenes to lead the viewer into and around your layout
Chuck Lind / Tracy Mitchell – Southern Forest
Heritage Museum at Long Leaf, La
Thurs 7PM
Chuck and Tracy the two experts on Long Leaf
will show the day to day operations including RR operations of what it was like
in a Southern sawmill complex. They will
then go briefly into what the museum offers including the only fully
operational belt driven machine shop in the south. If you are interested in logging this is a
must see clinic.
Everett Lueck – The Locomotives of
Longleaf
Thurs 8:30PM
The Crowell Lumber companies operated out of
Longleaf, LA from 1894 to 1954. During that time span, the Crowell
companies operated 3 lumber mills, numerous logging camps, 3 lumber railroads
and a common carrier railroad, the Red River and Gulf Railroad that tied
everything together. The story of how everything went together and how
the companies tailored their logging and railroad operations to the reality of
the timber acreage that they were able to acquire is a fascinating story of a
family owned industrial complex of the early 20th century and how it operated
in the overall world of North American railroading.
John & Mike McKenzie – Tree \Making 101;
A Closer Look at the Bottle Brush Tree
Thurs 8:30AM, Fri 10AM
We take the group through a Power Point
Presentation of our slant on bottle brush tree building and demo our tree
making machine, making a conifer tree in the clinic.
Tracy Mitchell – Tools of the Trade
Wed 7PM
Tracy Mitchell – SPNG Slide Show
Sat 8:30AM
Tracy will present a slide presentation of one of the neatest and
often one of the most often overlooked narrow gauge RR’s, The Slim Princess
Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge.
Loren Neufeld – Scenery 101 and 102
Friday 8:30PM
The clinic includes demonstration of several
techniques of rock casting and other methods of creating vertical scenery, as
well as fast and easy ways to use sand and other natural materials for any type
of terrain. Concepts of good scenery design will also be discussed.
Jim Vail – Building Stuff; Trestles,
Structures, and Scenes
Thurs 8:30AM and 8:30PM
Scratch and kit building and bashing in all
materials – wood, styrene, molded plastic, card stock, paper, etc. and
integration into scenes.
Tracy Mitchell is
coordinating the clinics and scheduling of.
You can email him directly
or via the Sn3 <email>
address.
The above list of clinics and schedules may change if situations
warrant.
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