Whats Neat in model railroading | April 2017 Model Railroad Hobbyist | Ken Patterson
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- mrhmag.com - MRH What's Neat columnist Ken Patterson's April 2017 What's Neat column: 1) Foam glue tests; 2) Foam layout construction tips; 3) Wood railroad crossing; 4) Tsunami2 programming tips; and 5) Athearn photo/video extravaganza! Get even more great FREE how-tos for model railroading on the Model Railroad Hobbyist website. This video is just part of the TOTALLY FREE April 2017 issue of Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine.
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Those runbys are stunning!! It does make a difference filming them outdoors rather than inside. They look very realistic!
One of the best model loco slide shows/ run-bys I have ever seen.
I always find myself sad after watching a "What's Neat...", now I have to wait another month. Another great show.
Yea I know. (Happy/Sad) Happy April is done and sad May is not in my head yet.. I don't even know what is in Next month. I have a few days to do something and get it put together.. That keeps things current, Not much lag time in the show. Makes life interesting. By Sunday May's subjects will be more clear to me.
One of the best episodes yet - well done. Much appreciated.
Ken, It has been my experience That you need to put water only on one surface to be glued. This comes from many years of woodworking with this glue - great stuff...Using a pizza cutter to get wax paper under or behind scenery - wonderful - thanks...First time I ever used the glue was to put plugs into wood. I put them in, went to bed, got up to see that the glue had pushed the plugs out and put them on the floor. By the way, things glued to a floor with this glue is hard to get loose...Love the dog.....Strange -- most of my engines are Rock Island...The Athearn segment - beautifully wonderful...One of the things I like about your videos is the fact that there are times when there are large birds flying and they really make the video look like you have shot the real thing...I used to see the tank trains here in northern Indiana, the ones with the hoses between cars, but now we don't see them any more!!!
Another excellent show under your belt. The amount of video/pictures you have for Athearn is amazing. It shows how much they like you cause you have a lot of stuff and I bet that's not all... only the cream of the crop.
Wow! Those images are absolutely stunning! Love the footage. Seeing all this just makes me want to work with you lot. Thanks for the great show
Loved the montage, and everything else included in this episode, great work.
Excellent show especially with all the Athearn engines on display in various still and moving consists.
The Rock Island RR brings back memories from almost 80 years ago when my grandfather worked for that line out of Muscatine, IA.
Hi Ken another great video, I've got to the stage where I am now looking forward to seeing these appear every month.
Bunch of goofs! LOve it. Thanks for the great show and the bloopers!
Ken, as always a great show, great pictures and scenes.
Ken, I have got to remember that pizza cutter technique! As always, great episode!!
That Athearn segment was awe inspiring. Must have even blown YOUR mind, looking at ALL the work you've done with them! Very impressive.
~ Carmine
I'm also hoping, someday I can get my first Tsunami 2 decoder.... That DDE works phenomenally! I never would have believed just 5 years ago - that we would be playing with CVs in the *500s* !!! 😲
I love all the music in these videos I wish I could get a track listing. I find the show and the music very relaxing. Keep up the great work !
Ken you are truly an artist, love your work, love your layout! Great video!
Another fantastic video Ken! 👍👌👏😍
Another great video, always look forward to the next on arriving.
A very good month, thanks, Ken
Great video, and really helpful how-to on the Gorilla Glue. I appreciate it when you get into testing mode. The Athearn video would look really good playing on a big screen at their trade show booth.
As per usual, exquisite work. Thanks again Ken.
Ken you did an outstanding job on the Athearn photo/video shoot. That makes me want to head out to my local shop wanting more products from Athearn. I also liked the segment on the addition to your layout expansion. It gives us another way to think about our layout constructions. Thanks again
really cool on the Athearn video! My head is still spinning from all the fine photos and run bys. Thanks for the reaserch on the Gorilla Glue as I need to revise or add some foam. I also appreciated the info on the Tsunami 2 - I have a couple Athearn GP38-2s that need a good non-turbo sound installed and the 567 version sounded pretty good in your models.
New subscriber here, I have been binge watching all of your videos and I am loving what I am seeing! Looking forward to seeing future videos!
Really like the sunset shots...
Nice job! Especially for those that are just getting into the hobby and were wondering how to do certain things and how to deal with issues you covered.
Thanks Ken, the video was awesome. I loved the Athearn section and got a laugh from one of the early desert like scenes when a giant fly flew past. It was one of those "gold" highlights one couldn't plan if you wanted to.
Did anyone else spot that?
Thanks again, Downunda (Melbourne Australia)
Thanks for the tips and the photo/video gallery. Nice to see all the models.
Thank you!!! D. Muse
all your favorite people in one spot, Cool idea.
Cracking programme this month! My favourite part? Seeing those HUGE slabs of meat in your roasting tray....I wouldn't mind eating at yours.😍
You have a wonderful layout I love it
THANK YOU KEN FOR GREAT VIDEO WITH GREAT DETAIL VERY TIME AS GREAT JOY WATCHING
I love your window cleaner!
Keep your chin up, Ken! Good video! Great tips ... as always!
Great youtube channel. Love it!
great job ken!
very nice job the images was done with class
Let me just say.. in the opening I really wanted to say The NMRA standards Meetings set the standards for DCC... It Just did not come out of my head that way while I was giving the pitch... I know the NMRA did not invent DCC.. I did sit in the DCC standards meetings back in 1989-1994.Back then DCC did not seem like something I wanted. DC at the time worked just fine in how we ran trains. That sure did change.......
Thank you Ken!
Cool demo, and glue test. / Finish job looks great.
• Cheers from The Detroit Mackinac Railway • Pronounced: (mac-in-aw) 🚂
Awesome video!
Ken ,ponder this......why does my wife`s cooking TASTE like ballast ? LOL
Another great video !!
THANK YOU...for sharing.
Shared on the Facebook page of Delmarva Model RR Club -Delmar DE
I JUST tried the Gorilla Glue's super glue and I am IN LOVE with it! Pricey BUT hell, well worth it imo. I've had GREAT success with their wood glue on polyfoam BUT again, pricey so I am a cheap one and stick with white glue or hot glue there lol
I've had BAD experiences using tacty glues for trees, I am interested to try the Gorilla super glue for the first base of branches before going back to tacky glue to build up
That was pretty neat!
Keep up the good work appreciate you
Ken , You've convinced me to go with Gorilla Glue. Was there a certain type of GG to use?
Ive been using there wood glue with good results.
Thanks for your videos and time.
Greg
Love those mar's lights
great job !
Thank you for sharing. Last part very nice; could not distinguish model from real in some shorts. Too bad, an insect flew by early in that segment.
I love the pizza cutter technique to separate the plastic
Didn't expect to see someone vaping in a semi-professional model railroad video. I like it! The short term fog effect it had was rendered perfectly in the video. I never expected to see marijuana used constructively in a model railroad scene.
That's not Pot! This is Missouri,, they will cage you for that here,,, still.....It's a Tobacco vape pipe. More Like apple flavor.. The smoke was cold and heavy and followed gravity through the scene perfectly..
Oh okay, good to know! I'm from the Bay Area so I just assume everybody's high all the time. I really like the style of your videos; thorough, succinct and witty. Definitely subscribing.
that green penn central box car has the best weathering ever
I never thought of using vape to make cool fog scenes! I actually make mods as another hobby, combine both my hobbies lol
High Five, Ken!!!!!
Just can't get enough of Whats Neat!! Love the kitbashed structure at the 36:25 and 37:00 minute marks. Anyone know what kit the walls and windows are from?
Good vid, chaps!
Ken, at some point on What's Neat, can you review MRC's Light Genie? It is suppossed to compete with Woodland Scenics Just Plug Lighting system. Thanks.
Wow, The athearn Segment is amazing, also a bit longer than expected.....
Hey Ken,
I really like your music bumps for this video Column, especially the Steel Drum music. Could you tell me what album that music is off of? I really like your collage of Locomotive still pictures and runbys. Your video column is my favorite part of MRH Magazine. I look forward to it every month. Your weekly Podcast is super too. Keep up the good work!
Two thumbs up!
Towards the end of the Athearn video the UP4873 rolled by and a delivery truck pulled away from loading dock. But, also after that a bird flew across one of the buildings. Was this just luck from filming outside or photography magic?
THANKS FOR SHARING
Do you happen to have a model of up 844 i got the pleasure of seeing it last October here in Osawatomie ks and also is your layout built completely out of foam
I use titebond woodglue to but joint foam - the foam breaks before the joint does :-)
Can you tell me what the name of the foam you use for the base of your layouts and where I can purchase it and how much it is. Great run bys. Thank you
we have secretly replaced kens seasonings with woodland scenics ballast. lets see if he notices the difference.
what type of gg did you use also what did you spray on foam
What's the purpose of spraying water on the foam prior to adding the Gorilla Glue?
Nerfball6 Gorilla Glue is moisture activated. It would take a very long time to set with just moisture from the air between two pieces of foam.
NEW Glasses??!?!!
I would build a model railroad with butted foam. Hey I am doing that right now.
bricklayers cradle a L shape wrap in plywood and use its own weight to set it up.
Every month Ken wears a different type of Glasses!
Sometimes two pairs at once. But if that's what it takes to get videos this good, that's okay.
No. What it does take is being a paid spokesperson for several MRR products, starting with MRH. ..These videos by KP are advertisment all neatly scripted out, designed to hold your attention to get those product names and logos in your craw yet again.............
...............Reminds me of that old SNL skit "the Anal Retentive Chef".....
(Joe Fugate here) Uhm ... not exactly. It's nice that Ken may choose to show how to use some products ... but if you think about it, unless you dig the raw materials out of the hills, refine the compounds yourself, etc everything is a product. As the editor-and-chief, my only guidance to Ken is to show modelers how to do stuff - and since Ken has been in the hobby since the 80s, he knows how to do a lot of stuff and he knows a lot of hobby vendors. I'd love to see more of you do what Ken does (show how to do stuff on video) and send it to us to be published. We do pay contributors ...
I don't give a toot what you've come to love about him, but it's still all to get the hobby buying public's attention to notice, recognize and buy such products or he wouldn't do it in the first place, where 98% MRRers' videos do not do this. They are made by model railroaders who are not in hobby sales. They're either showing off their modeling accomplishments at home or at clubs, or to share and donate 'how tos'. They use terms like 'white glue', or "I added weeds here for..." or "I cut off the existing stirrups and made my own brass ones by bending......" Or, "I got better results with a lift out bridge. The hinged one"......
Yes, Ken does it good too, but at a cerebral price; that is, having to listen to an hour+ of commercials every 15 seconds. We now recognizing the brand names of some seemingly 23 products by the time his latest project is done... This is why I have, for what must be 20 years now, watched public television only. No Ford pickups, Burgers , mattresses, corn flakes (guess which one), Kellogg's little elves, citibank mastercharge, Hershey's chocolate, Matthew McConaughey sleezeball Lexus ads, Pepsi, Coke, the newest I phone,.....yada yada yada. Well that's what Ken's videos look and feel like to me and I'm sure many others... CZcams was never meant to be like this. This stuff IS fine when searching the web in say, Google, or Yahoo. "Hmm I'll just search 'modeling adhesives', Hmm, foam dealers, electronics stores in (zip code), Ebay loco deals. True online marketplaces...
I Had to move and am planning a shelf, switching layout for new dwelling. I've been in the hobby since circa 1955, beginning in NYC, winding up in Los Angeles in 1978, in professional, union, local 47 affiliated sideman jobs as a bassist, now retired......M
PS. I jump completely off here. Ta ta........
Believe what you like ... MRH never gives Ken direction on what to feature in his videos and MRH doesn't get revenue from vendors for Ken's videos. Ken does have industry ad contracts, and some of those projects show up as "here's what else I'm doing ..." but those are for the vendor, not for MRH. Ken's videos in MRH are NOT ALL to get modelers to watch and buy stuff. No vendor money is changing hands with MRH on the videos Ken does for MRH.
check out micks lakeside railway
weird cant edit comment in ipad in firefox... i think they crippled the mobile browser stuff so you get thier app.... which prevents ipad multitasking but youtube says you can pay for multitasking.... even though its bult into the ipad..... ugh.... to first real point... great video. im surprised you hace one dude insulting you and such... calling you closed minded... over what you use to model? what a moron... dont listen to them trolls bro... you videos look slick
24:39 Killerfliegen 😀
Whats the yearly foam budget for Whats Neat? 500...1,000 ? Lol
Mmmm... ballasted steak...
I think you put a little bit too much ballast on that meat.
It's a shame that like most people who have anything to do with creating a video about anything you think that your choice of "music" is more important than the natural sounds ( loco's - steam or diesel ). Are you promoting a record company or the DCC delights of model railroading that now includes the authentic loco sounds?
how about someone different other than james wright
I think that you need to just use "What's Neat"........