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Posted by Magnum019 on Monday, June 7, 2010 12:54 AM

 I love that Static Grass Applicator with the Flyswatter Vid he has; I have Two at home and will be trying this soon.  It's his knowledge I am after; I don't care how his Video is as long as I know what he is doing.

 

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Posted by NYC-Big 4 on Sunday, June 6, 2010 11:31 PM

There's seems to be several "How To' videos on Youtube that are informative.

I checked out the site mentioned and I looked at part of the Building a River video and saw that he used the green floral foam.  You may want to reconsider using that material.  My wife works at a florist and I was thinking at one time to purchase a box of it for scenery purposes since it was easy to cut or carve.  She said one problem with that thought is you don't want it to get very wet.  Green floral form will adsorb water like a sponge.  It is designed to do so since it is used in flower arrangments that alot of times require water.  When wet you don't want to mess with it as it can be very soft and when it dries out it will crumble almost like a power if disturbed, as she demostrated when she took apart an old flower arrangement.  Not a very stable material to lean up against either.

 Just a thought to consider.

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Posted by cudaken on Sunday, June 6, 2010 2:40 PM

  Blue, I am only at 16 meg and watched Joe video it with no problem with my firewall up and running.

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Posted by Hamltnblue on Sunday, June 6, 2010 1:47 PM

 I watched a couple of big61's video's Very good job. People watching are usually doing so for the info and not into the quality of the video.  The first video in the link above to Joe Fusco was disappointing at best.  The video load time is very poor and that's with a 25 meg connection on my end.  After a couple of minutes of watching slow load followed by a few seconds of video at a time I gave up.

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Posted by mononguy63 on Sunday, June 6, 2010 1:33 PM

Check out Joe Fusco's videos

http://www.youtube.com/user/JoMiFu

Many are shot in HD and all are very nicely done.

Jim

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Posted by Geared Steam on Sunday, June 6, 2010 10:43 AM

Allegheny2-6-6-6
His videography skills leave something to be desired

 

It's free to watch, or not watch.

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein

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Posted by Allegheny2-6-6-6 on Sunday, June 6, 2010 8:14 AM

 His videography skills leave something to be desired but he's really informative and has a lot of useful information. That would be a great segment for the MR website. Members video clips on modeling tips

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Posted by fiatfan on Sunday, June 6, 2010 8:10 AM

 Here's a direct link to his page.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thebige61&aq=f

 

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Posted by AntonioFP45 on Sunday, June 6, 2010 6:56 AM

Hey thanks for sharing that info.  I've been watching a slew of YouTube model railroading tutorials and had not even heard of "The Big 61".  He speaks clearly and goes over details well with good closeups.  In his earlier videos he's a bit hyper, but as the vids progress he's much more relaxed.  Good tutorials, overall.

Now that I have a decent tripod, I hope to shoot a passenger car metalizing video and upload it to the "tube". Cool 

 

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Posted by pj1775 on Friday, June 4, 2010 5:38 AM

Morning Everyone.  Many of you may know this already but in case you dont, check out Everett on youtube, his site is thebige61.  He has a great searies of tutorials.   I really enjoy watching, very inspiring.   If you're on this site Everett, very nice work!   Your work is excellent!  

 

If anyone has any good youtube train subscriptions to suggest please post them.   I find a great deal of inspiration in looking/watching other peoples work.  I bet I'm not alone.  Just by Friday morning $.02

 

 

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