1943 model train layout

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Re: 1943 model train layout

Post by Mark Tombleson » Fri May 19, 2023 3:57 pm

Great Stuff,,, congratulations!

I really enjoy this thread... very cool!
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Re: 1943 model train layout

Post by Lee Bishop » Thu Jun 15, 2023 10:57 am

It's been a bad couple of weeks for me and I'm just in a place where I can post about it. 
My parents were both born in 1936, and well into their 30s when I was born. They had all the types of issues you expect from people past their mid-80s.
Dad got sick, went to the hospital, got COVID along the way (the hospital and the assisted living place are pointing at each other as to how he got it) and from those complications, he passed away on June 6. I find that date ironic as I've always been into military history and June 6 will never again be mainly the anniversary of the Normandy Landings in 1944..
I DO NOT want a bunch of responses to this or platitudes. I've got more of that than I could ever use at this point.
Dad was not only a great man (kind, funny, and the smartest person I've ever known), he was finest craftsman. In the 60s, he built a Civil War cannon (a M1841 6-pounder) that we re-enacted with into the 1990s. 
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Other than the barrel (the only thing he couldn't cast), he made every single piece of it, and anything that could be bronze, he made it as such. He couldn't bring himself to paint it after making those wheels.
He also built several cannon models, and this 1/6 scale James Rifle appeared in Finescale Modeler from this series of photos I took of it.
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As for how this factors into my layout, Dad's last gun barrel is on my layout. I wanted a memorial on my layout to that unpleasantness in the 1860s (some Southerners call it, "The War of Northern Aggression,
 but East Tennessee was quite pro-Union during that timeframe, something I bet they're proud of in a PC-centric world). He said he only needed to know what kind of gun barrel and scale I wanted. As I know the types, I said I wanted a 12-pounder 'Napoleon' in 1/48 scale, and it showed up in the mail about a week or so later. I jokingly said he didn't drill the vent at the back, which would be smaller than a tiny fraction of the diameter of a human hair. He thought that response was funny.
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I made the pedestal, and I still can't bring myself to weather it as it'd look (all such bronze barrels outside are oxidized in green unless someone polishes them regularly).

I just wish he'd been able to see the layout. I miss you, Dad.
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Re: 1943 model train layout

Post by chibobber » Thu Jun 15, 2023 1:07 pm

Lee,
I will not honor your wish. You learned from the best.
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Re: 1943 model train layout

Post by Lee Bishop » Thu Jun 15, 2023 1:35 pm

chibobber wrote:
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You learned from the best.
I did, indeed, Bob. Thank you.
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Re: 1943 model train layout

Post by Lee Bishop » Mon Jun 26, 2023 10:06 am

I took some more shots last night, for a article I'm sending to the NMRA magazine. The vertical one is one I'm going to submit, but in color. I really like the 'old photo' effect on it, though.
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Re: 1943 model train layout

Post by Fushigi Ojisan » Mon Jun 26, 2023 3:58 pm

The cannon reminded me of the one outside the courthouse where I did jury duty

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Re: 1943 model train layout

Post by Chuck W. » Wed Jun 28, 2023 7:52 pm

I still can't bring myself to weather it as it'd look (all such bronze barrels outside are oxidized in green unless someone polishes them regularly).
You could always put a figure on a ladder, with a rag, polishing the barrel. It would explain the shine and also make an interesting vignette for your visitors to stumble across.

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Re: 1943 model train layout

Post by Lee Bishop » Mon Aug 21, 2023 10:02 am

More publications are afoot!
Trackside Model Railroading came by last week to shoot stills and video for their online magazine and DVD series.
And it's official; the Kalmbach Model Railroad Planning Annual for 2024 will feature an article on my layout!
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Post by chibobber » Mon Aug 21, 2023 12:13 pm

Congratulations!

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Post by Lee Bishop » Wed Sep 20, 2023 8:19 pm

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Re: 1943 model train layout

Post by Lee Bishop » Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:52 pm

https://www.tracksidemodelrailroading.c ... /oct-2023/
Here's my latest magazine appearance. They came out to shoot stills and video not long ago.
It's not much if you REALLY want to see it.
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Re: 1943 model train layout

Post by Lee Bishop » Fri Dec 01, 2023 12:37 pm

I recently got the digital proof for my article for the Kalmbach 2024 Model Railroad Planning Annual complete with Model Railroader-produced track plan. That was surreal to me to see that as I never thought I'd see my own layout in one of their trackplans.
I assume it'll be out in December or January. That'll really be special for me, as I think most in the hobby know how hard it is to get into any Model Railroader publication.
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Re: 1943 model train layout

Post by Tapper02 » Fri Dec 01, 2023 3:12 pm

Pretty cool...congrats Lee!
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Re: 1943 model train layout

Post by HankII » Sun Jan 28, 2024 6:33 am

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Re: 1943 model train layout

Post by Lee Bishop » Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:57 am

I recently combined a few short layout videos into a shorty one for YouTube, just for the heck of it:
https://youtube.com/shorts/nvxUwCglKvU? ... DBuanwKKkz
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