Whats Neat in model railroading | May 2018 Model Railroad Hobbyist | Ken Patterson
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- mrhmag.com - MRH columnist Ken Patterson's May 2018 What's Neat column:
- John Parker’s Fn3 layout
- Mike Budde on modeling Stack-Packs
- Ken’s layout: Foam module upgrade
- Patrick Lana’s N-scale GRANDIC
- Drone footage, great runbys, and more ...
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 May 2018 issue of Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine.
Nice to see N Scale. I've been into N for 16 years now. Patrick's layout looks fantastic!
Enjoyed this edition very much. The last 3 seconds of video proves beyond doubt you guys enjoy your hobby, you are not a serious stickler. That was actually a great moment indeed as I checkled - and sure it gave you guys some fun moments. Some would have edited it out etc.
Great show as usual. Cedar Rapids And Iowa City (CRANDIC) N scale was great. That drone footage was the very best. I have watched it several times.
that bridge was amazing. Thanks again.
The segment by Mike Budde...wow! Superb modelling, those stack-packs and flatcars look fantastic.
Really good layout construction section. For years I've been using foam construction and, like you, have found it makes for quick and simple modification and improvement of even large portions of a layout. I enjoyed seeing the CRANDIC again. I had a chance to visit the layout many years ago while I was living in Denver. It was interesting to get a glimpse of the changes made. Thanks for showing this great N scale layout.
Really enjoyed the information about the Stack Packs, Mike knocks it out of the park in scratchbuilding these flatcars. The Fn3 layout is outstanding, especially the night time running. and LED lights inside the structures.
Great show Ken...the layout segment was great, looked as good on film as it does in person....Thank You Mike for the very interesting history of the stack pack containers and cars, as a retired auto worker i thought it was awesome, you truly are a master modeler...over all the best whats neat video i can remember Thanks Tom
I have been practicing my mea culpa's - I messed up in the opening interview by incorrectly naming the prototype railroad name that ran near my boyhood home. The correct name of the prototype railroad is the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City while the name of my N scale model railroad is the Cedar River and Iowa Central.
There was a question in the comments about the semaphores. They are scratch built and do work. You can see the upper semaphore move at about 15:40 in the video.
There was a comment about seeing Kansas City being in the segment. Yes, the N scale Crandic runs geographically from Kansas City, MO to Central Iowa.
Considering my nervousness and the short time Ken was here and his objectives, I think he did a great job putting the whole segment together. Thanks, Ken
What a great job, Ken, in bringing Pat Lana's N scale layout to MRH's monthly "What's Neat" podcast. Pat created an amazing layout. Please bring more N scale coverage to MRH's future shows! After all, N scale remains the 2nd most popular scale in North America among model railroaders. But somehow N scale seems to still receive third-rate coverage. I know you and MRH can improve this. Thanks, once again, for your outstanding May podcast featuring such an "N"credible layout among many other fascinating topics!
-from Tom Pilling
Great what's neat. Thanks for the heads up Ken on the drone footage. The river water looked cobalt blue, and the road pavement was a nise combo of blue, black, and gray color. Great stuff. Those layouts were crazy good!
Simply terrific! Thanks for the great show! Looks like "Mr. Caboose" likes N scale too! Always a pleasure to watch here.
great show ken.And great to see Mike Budde's work and explaining how he goes about building his wagons/flat cars.he never seems to say a lot but this time you cut him loose and it was just great.thanks guys for a great video again.keep up the good work.Tony from the UK.
Great to see some N scale. Have a look at N scale T Trak modules. Kato USA are using Bruce Arbo’s T Trak modules to showcase their N scale trains at shows. T Trak modules are a great way to bring a group of people together.
Another great episode. Enjoyed seeing those fantastic layouts. Wish there was more time to watch them run. Thank you Mike Budde for your presentation on stack packs. Always interesting, you are very skilled sir.
this is the first show ive watched and loved it especially the N scale
I really enjoyed Mike Budde's stack pack presentation. My favorite modeling period is nearly the same as Mikes, late 1970's thru early 1980's - D&RGW for me. Like MIke, I have been drawn to some models that are a bit on early edge of that 1977's year - the ExactRail Ver-a-pac's, which were also a niche type auto carrier although they were in service a little longer IIRC. Very interesting series on the Stack Pac's and thanks for sharing. Cheers, Jim Fitch
riogrande5761, thanks, Jim! Yes, the Vert a Pacs lasted until the end of the ‘77 Model year. But I still run them anyway!😁
Probably the best What's Neat have watched. Bravo Ken.
Awesome Show Ken Fantastic to see an N Scale Layout on the show & Thanks to Mike for such a Great Presentation i really enjoy his Models.....Cheers-Rich.....
Great video as usual and since I am N scale, it was great seeing that layout. Enjoyed the large scale layout too. The crash at the end made me laugh.
kind of getting to the classic format of What's neat which i prefer. Mike Buddy is a real expert and should teach at the university...:such an impressive lecture he gives about flat cars and the history of auto racks! Higher education for me! It would be nice to add some infos like a blue print picture, when presenting layouts during the show.
Ken, excellent show with good mixture of topics.
Terrific episode, Ken. All great stuff but especially liked the Mike Budde segment. Thanks, Mike for sharing your knowledge of some specific rail history and your techniques for building flat packs.
Robert Getty, thank you! It was a fun project.
Great N scale layout. Lets see more of them and Mike Budde is a fantastic craftsman,
We love N scale and always want to find more layouts, but you realize there's 1/3rd as many N scalers as HO scalers. So the supply of N scale layouts is likely 1/3rd fewer layouts compared to HO scale. Just saying ... we can't manufacture more N scale layouts than HO layouts out of thin air (wink).
Thank you for the compliment, Ken! Each of us has a passion...we’re lucky that ours all converge in this hobby and in this time.
Ken the chain saw was awesome! You should have gotten a product endorsement.
No models here yet but the videos really get me excited. Many many thanks.
Thanks for the n-scale railroad section. I model n-scale, however I am also familiar with the CRANDIC because of my wife's family living in those two cities and stories of family members travel by that interurban railroad.
Roger G. Perkins I'm just getting into modeling and I have a friend that I haven't seen in years one of those things where you just stop by just to say hey ,well he ended up giving me a N scale layout I'm excited about getting it home and running
omg.. love the episode, and love the run by of the Executive units and the BN 1991 two of my most favorite units...
Great show, I love it. Thanks to Ken and his team.
Wow! Another AWESOME Show! Thank you Ken for what you are doing for model railroading!
Wow, the drone footage is fantastic!
That bridge is in Redding California. I live about an hour away from it. It's fun to ride across on an amtrak train :)
It is What's Neat. Terrific show.
hey good job, i just got my first woodlands scenic 3x6 foot n scale layout a couple of months back,thanks
@14:17 you can see the Peterrbilt tanker trying to push a particular red swinger into the railroad crossing. Neat little detail
Roaenoke Syzlak, Duel!!
I had to pause the video, three times, and go back to make sure I wasn't making it up. lol.
Great video Ken...Excellent job Mr. Budde
Love these videos, great work Ken.
Congratulations, this is a very nice show, with interesting and useful tips!
Calling Corman to clean up the derailment? Great show great layouts.
Great show Ken. Cheers Gary
Love the foam , but another example that a good hot knife would work to cut the foam.
Good show, Ken. LOVE the N scale layout. Set in Iowa, but I recognize a Kansas City scene there. The Fn3 layout was absollutely amazing.
The Western Auto sign?
Yes, and I thought that might be a depiction of Union Station from the rear behind that.
Yes, That is the Western Auto sign from KC but the station is modeled from the Salt Lake City depot. My freelanced Crandic runs from Kaysee (after KCMO) to Pammelia (from ISU married student housing in Ames,IA). I use names of locations we have lived but do not model specific buildings from those locations.
Patrick Lana that makes sense. You did a nice job modeling that Western Auto building. I grew up driving by that regularly as a kid in the 70s.
Very rich video. Thank you for bring this to us Ken
Ken, one of the best shows to date. Two great layouts of different scales, a great scenery remodel on your layout, and Mike's wonderful scratch modeling segment. Super show. A question for Mike? Are you going to model one of the stackers for the stack packs? Lots of stacker kits out there that could be modified to get the real thing. Thanks guys.
Richard Drum, nice idea about the unloader! I like to run these and the Vert a Pacs, but the loading area takes up a lot of space. Maybe someday...
Mike Budde, yes those unloading areas do take up space on the layout to do them justice....maybe someday😀
I like the idea of using the ground carpeting. Looks like it's easy to do a 'face lift' that way.....
@MikeBudde - super results with the Stack-Packs!!! Hope that a manufacturer does em in HO
Absolutely awesome ken more scenery...
Fastest 37 minutes on the internet, magnificent
those stac pacs are awesome ive never seen those. Does Mike have his own Layout? or does he just build as his hobby? thanks
vwgolfer187, I do have a layout, partially finished but totally buried by junk...other hobby stuff, etc. But I promise you’ll see it here someday!!
What's Neat and Toy Man Television are my favorite places on Train CZcams.
See lots of ideas of water colors. Seems a lot of color interpretation is from height of view. Very high river water looks blue, mid level greenish, bank level brown. Could you get this theory test with your great drone video man?
Takes chainsaw to layout..."yeah I'm just going to trim it..." haha
I used to work with Ron. Real neat guy
Great episode, 100% neat.
Interesting info.
Hey! That search feature thing worked great, at least I found this Mike Budde Stac-Pac segment no problem. Great segment by the way! Ain't life grand?
For those interested in the Trainline issue, the back issue is available for 9.95 USD at sphts.org. Just click on Company Store, Trainline Back Issues, and go to Issue 113.
Fantastic N scale Layout!
THANK YOU...for sharing.
N-scale awesome, n is great for operations because run length!
THANK YOU FOR OTHER GREAT VIDEO SHOW AS JOY TO WATCH SEE NEW DETAIL EVERY TIME
Like the changes
great show.
I have a question for mike buddy where did he get the custom decals from??
Walker Valley Railroad, the decals were printed by William Brillinger of Precision Design Company.
Mike Budde thanks I have bin trying to find some one who could print white decals thanks I'll see if I can look him up.
LOL! 37:21 D'oh!
Great episode!
BTW, folks, the vendor from whom I ordered the ALH21A sidesill Parts is “He6agon”. He also makes a kit for the Rockwell high speed trucks used on many cabooses, most notably KCS. His name is Ryan Harris and his products are excellent.
Thanks for the kind words, Mike! I'm glad to see you put those parts to good use. Your autorack models have long been an inspiration to me. These auto containers and flats look fantastic.
fr8kar, the kind words are well deserved! I also have your Rockwell trucks and ordered more😁.
Wait, does this mean the car can't sleep in that corner anymore?
Great Programme, Thanks
When/will we see a tutorial on that aluminum foil crash damage from whats neat #25? I am very interested in it, it would be a cool addition to any yard and yet there seems to be no other documentation on the technique. I would love some more info on it.
GiftedGamerz, we showed it on one of KEN’s monthly shows...but it’s worth another look, I think.
Do you by any chance know which monthly show it was featured in, or approximately how long ago I need to look? I cannot for the life of me the video it was featured in. Thanks for the reply.
GG, I know Daniel will be able to find it. I’ll ask him tomorrow night.
He Ken great show I was wondering where you get your fake fur
Jay Zook, I got mine at JoAnn Fabrics...but I think almost any fabric store should carry it.
No more spot for Stripe to sit in the corner and watch trains?
So awesome!!!
Yay! N scale
Ok, I'm biting the bullet and showing my ignorance. I know there is Z, N, HO, S, O, and G, I've never heard of F scale?? Is that something like OO is to HO?
Fn3 is G guage (45mm) track representing 3-foot narrow guage which comes out to 1:20.3 scale.
Lots of very-cool stuff. I must have missed the location of the drone footage. Where was that?
That bridge is in Redding California. I live about an hour away from it. It's fun to ride across on an amtrak train :)
Well, I'll be damned! Been past there many times, photographed on both ends of the bridge (including 4449 in 1981), and ridden over it a few times. It's amazing how an aerial view looks so different from the perspective and impressions on the ground.
Who makes the two-bladed semaphore signal shown on the CRANDIC layout? What is being used to make it operable?
Jonathan, All the semaphores are scratch-built with model airplane linkages to Tortoise switch machines. Digitrax SE8C's are used to power the Tortoises.
Patrick Lana Pat, thank you for your reply. As scratchbuilt items, this semaphores are really impressive. My current layout prototype used two-bladed semaphores, but my initial choice was to use searchlights since the semaphores are not commercially available. How can I get more information on how you built yours? Perhaps some photos and a list of materials and techniques would help me understand how you made them. I visited your layout perhaps ten years ago with the Great Basin Getaway crowd. My friend Brian Marotta introduced me to you. Your layout ended up being the one that encouraged me to change to n scale. It showed that fine modelwork, scratchbuilding, and operation could be done in N despite prevailing opinions at the time.
1080p Please
Ken I always respect copy right and peoples rights. Caboose never to my knowledge reach agreement and bough out Caboose Hobbies. Which was the trade name. Caboose is a new store nice and a nice owner but only since last what 5 years.
Poor Stripe lost his napping spot.
First Comment....Great video
Got a "Q". In my many years of Model RxR I have never heard of scenery surfacing with "Fake Fur". What is it and where is it available. I'm in upstate NY, on the boarder with MA & VT. Do you know of any online marketers or manufactures? I'd like to try it on my Fall 2018/Winter 2019 line expansion.
You can get fake fur at any fabric store. It's used by seamstress-type folks to add fur adornment to garments.
Ken, the fake fur... where can I purchase it?!
That was going to be my question too !
Most fabric stores, or Hobby Lobby.
Fake Fur has been used for nearly 25 years now.
Hi Ken I´m looking for one of your video in which there was a man teaching how to sinchronize chuff in Tsunami decoders, Can you remember?
Chuff is adjusted using CV 116 Start at 75 and work both ways till you get 4 per rev....
Thanks
Who is the music by during the drone footage? Is it Hiroshima?
I was wondering that too. I think the same band is played on another drone footage, but a different tune.
I think it's just stock music that comes with his video editing software.
Goggles, you are correct about the music source. Stock music is the safest way to follow copyright laws. I have to admit, it’s growing on me...
Although I would like some Pink Floyd, personally.
Anyone know what the video software is? Mike Buddy, can you ask Ken if he can answer these questions?
My wife is pissed off at me for using the electric carving knife to carve foam. She says the knife can only be used for cutting meat.
Ken, Come see my N-Scale layout
Why can't we get a plain ho engine. What ever happened to a good cheap loco without all the bells and sounds and Crap.
Anyone else having problems with video quality?
nope.
Oops
Great video Ken, don't forget to enter my giveaway contest video, I'm giving away a scaletrains gevo.....
13:27 WTH, did someone fart?