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his month we discuss workbench design, Dirk
Reynolds’ excursion train support cars, and the
Soundtraxx Sound Car decoder (also available in
Athearn refrigerator cars). It’s December and this marks my
two-year anniversary, with 24 months of videos and monthly
photos and text for
Model Railroad Hobbyist
magazine.
Blackstone Christmas
I open this month’s text with a Christmas shot. The scene was
made for Blackstone Models last year. It took 45 hours over
three days to build the scene from scratch. I used foam to cre-
ate a base for a running train, road, and farmhouse where a
family is bringing a Christmas tree up to the front porch. The
moon is rising among the mountains. The mountains are a flat
carved in foam. The scene is HO scale with a 3-foot gauge train.
The grass is fake fur. The exposure was very complicated. To
What’s neat column - 3
MRH-Dec 2014
