Jack Walton's house in Westlake (Ft. Worth), TX.
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We had 26 attendees from 5 states (AR, KS, NE, OK, and TX): Steve Amitrano, Craig Brantley, Paul Cleveland, Mark Gardner, Mark LaChey, Ken Neufeld, Joe Norman, Ron Proffitt, Wes Proffitt, Gary Rush, Bob Shirley, Randy Smith, Keith Stamper, George Wallace, Jack Walton, Clark Womack.
Gary Rush gave a clinic on using Sculptamold for rock structures,
including coloring with acrylic stains.
Tom Petrick and Marc LaChey gave a clinic on making trees using the
bottle brush technique for pines and Nandina bush armatures for aspens.
Attendees were treated to three layouts:
Jack Walton's large Sn3 layout (http://www.northtexasnarrowgauge.com/jackwalton/index.html)
The North Texas Sn3 layout at Keith Stamper's house
(http://www.okng.org/layouts/ntsn3/index.htm)
Jim Packer's beautiful Nevadun standard gauge layout (http://www.nevadunrailroad.com/)
| Marc LaChey brings the meet to order | Craig Brantley, Mark Gardener, Paul Cleveland, Keith Stamper, Clark Womack (front). Wes Proffitt and Ron Proffit (back). | Wes Proffitt, Ron Proffit, Joe Norman, Ken Neufeld (front). James Sullivan, Bob Shirley, Jack Walton, Steve Amitrano (back). | Keith Stamper, Joe Norman, Steve Amitrano (hidden), Ken
Neufeld, Randy Smith, Clark Womack, Don Culbertson, Gary Rush (Photo by Craig Brantley) |
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| Gary Rush giving a clinic on Sculptamold scenery. | Gary demonstrates texturing Sculptamold with foil (Photo by Craig Brantley) |
Painting the dry Sculptamold with the "secret" wash. (Photo by Craig Brantley) |
Ground cover has now been applied. (Photo by Craig Brantley) |
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| Tom Petrick and Marc LaChey build a pine tree. | Tom and Marc discuss building aspen trees. (Photo by Craig Brantley) |
Steve Amitrano discusses locomotive tuning. | Mark Gardener's On3 K27 painted by Steve Amitrano. (Photo by Craig Brantley) |
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| Steve Amitrano's green boiler K-37 and short caboose in Sn3
with Ron Proffitt's On3 stock car in the background. (Photo by Craig Brantley) |
Ron Proffitt's On3 K-27 and stock car. (Photo by Craig Brantley) |
Mark Gardener's standard gauge O scale articulated
locomotive, painted by Steve Amitrano. (Photo by Craig Brantley) |
Mark's massive loco dwarfs Randy Smith's Sn3 3-truck Shay (Photo by Craig Brantley) |
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