18 years ago today, we were lucky to be gifted with a wonderful little girl.
She’s not as little and has accomplished so much in her life this far. I am proud of her for the strength shown and the growth she has achieved. I am humbled by her achievements and resilience. Great way for a dad to feel.
So despite teenage angst, and troubles with tribbles, she’s still as much of a gift today as she was 18 years ago. Happy Birthday Bella!
(Note the obligatory railway content)
Today’s site is a masterpiece. No more hyperbole, so let’s get straight to it.
Site 1: Industrial switching layout – City Limits
While the site is in French, using Google translate allowed me to get a better understanding of the content. Visually I find this layout a stunning, well thought out and executed ISL. I hope that you enjoy it too.
Site 2: YouTube – City Limits
Site 3: YouTube – City Limits 2
My son Ewan got into Warhammer 40K 3 years ago, and while he has been slow to pick the game up we’ve worked together to complete the models and getting them ready for paint.
Among the things I’ve noticed is that gamers are great scratchbuilders. So today I have four outstanding tutorials for you to look at – all from the same site.
Site 1: Rob Hawkins’ Hobby Blog – Making Crates
A highly creative way to make light and sturdy crates of just about any size, using pink foam (or any foam you can get your hands on). A great tutorial on how to and why to make crates Rob’s way.
Site 2: Rob Hawkins’ Hobby Blog – Pipes
It is amazing what Rob can come up with. I’d not thought to use this technique to model the pipes so often associated with our model railroads. Another great tutorial and relatively cheap to boot compared to some of the pipe kits I’ve seen available.
Site 3: Rob Hawkins’ Hobby Blog – Stairs
Another simple to do, but hard to imagine (at least for me) tutorial on how to make stairs. With a full step by step style Rob takes you through a start to finish on how to custom make and fit the stairs for the model.
Site 4: Rob Hawkins’ Hobby Blog – Flagstone Street
An innovative use for what normally I’d struggle to use, thick cardboard. What a great idea it turns out to be. I’m looking forward to using this on some new dioramas I have in mind and for a new layout idea I have in mind.
Site 5: Rob Hawkins’ Hobby Blog – Cornfield
This tutorial is a two-for, that is you get to learn how to make stone walls and assorted stone wall pieces and you get to model the corn field. Once again some really interesting techniques and outcomes. Highly useful for those of us modelling anywhere in the midwest, or even Texas.
As you tool around the web you come across some interesting and useful sites. I’ve found it hard to have a simple to find and use repository since the end of basic HTML coding. I’ve bookmarked and so on but I wanted to have a better place to go.
So today I’ve added a new section for these resources. I’ll add site links when I find them; adding information about the sites so that you decide their value before you visit them.
Visit the following two pages:
Enjoy
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