Speaking of happy hour, mine is now going on two hours, and after cutting all that grass, it may go three.
Does this mean that I don't have to know how to pronounce Quebec tomorrow?
Edit!!! I think I got the last top-of-the-page for May!
York1 John
End of May modeling rush to get this ready for a talent show at church this coming Monday. First bit of rock work is carved and got its first layer of paint before I left to work the evening shift at work today.
York1Edit!!! I think I got the last top-of-the-page for May!
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Not if we all just start mindlessly replying to your post!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Ooops, forgot to copy TF's post about Oceola.
Definitly go.
Terry
Terry in NW Wisconsin
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Track fiddlerKevin, I hear ya. They can be rather aggressive when they feel threatened.
In Indiana one year I had a goose keep me from getting back in my rental car for about twenty minutes.
mbinsewiIt reminds me when NWP-SWP first landed in here.
"Truly Wonderful The Mind Of A Child Is" - Yoda
xboxtravis7992End of May modeling rush to get this ready for a talent show at church this coming Monday. First bit of rock work is carved and got its first layer of paint before I left to work the evening shift at work today.
Nice work Travis. Slapping the paint on rocks is one of my favorite parts of scenery making.
Geese have a handy crank start. It's called a neck---Distract the goose with one hand, grab the sucker with the other, make like you are starting a model T, or a Massey Harrison. Breast out, fry in bacon fat, or pluck and bake in oven, with bacon strips over the breast. Put celery and apple sections in the cavity. For those of us who might not be as quick of hand as of long ago, four feet of 1/2 inch galvanized water pipe swung smartly works as well.
herrinchoker
xboxtravis7992 End of May modeling rush to get this ready for a talent show at church this coming Monday. First bit of rock work is carved and got its first layer of paint before I left to work the evening shift at work today.
Nice carving Travis, I really love working with foam, seems you do too. Some carefully orchestrated much diluted black washes into the crevices and dry brushing lighter colors (even white sparingly) on the surface will make your rocks look like a champion.
I love fiddling with foam. I have a whole shopping bag of chunks like this to add to my layout when I get to that point.
You're doing a good job.
TF
Bad Spot
Afternoon Diners!
Flo, give the gang and I a Ed a crown royal and leave a stein outside for Ulrich.
Had a nice lunch with Sue at Olive Garden. I avoided all Pasta and Bread sticks. All I had was salded and did not even have any croutons.
For are wedding anniversary she wanted a good Flashlight? Go figuer? Bought her 1250 luma latern from harbour freight.
Dave I did buy a hummingbird feeder and some store bought nectar for now. Looking forward to getting hung Saturday!
Ed Good running and sounding engine. Sounds way better than the B&O Heavy Pacific Presdent Adams. When Rolling Tundering Tennis Balls kick in I am in heaven. I do need to move the reciver for the roll tundering tennies balls.
By the way, reason I was pretty sure it was your layout? OK how many people out there have PRR, B&O and Bessimer on there layout? I have never even heard of Bessimer till you befriended me.
Smoke free Ken
I hate Rust
Track fiddler Nice carving Travis, I really love working with foam, seems you do too. Some carefully orchestrated black washes into the crevices and dry brushing lighter colors (even white sparingly) on the surface will make your rocks look like a champion.
Nice carving Travis, I really love working with foam, seems you do too. Some carefully orchestrated black washes into the crevices and dry brushing lighter colors (even white sparingly) on the surface will make your rocks look like a champion.
Thanks, I was thinking about some white and dark touches to, so I am glad to hear it seems to be the right track. I remember reading in an Disney parks guide book once that their rock carving followed the mantra "to carve a good rock you need to think like a rock." I took some photos of rock structures out trackside while railfanning for reference, and have kept that on the back of my mind as I have started on this project. The core is foam, but the top rock layer is Hydrocal Plaster; and I liked that the plaster chips and cleaves similar to rock when I go at it with a hobby knife.
My next rock segment will be on the opposite end of the module on the other side of the tracks being a stand alone rock similar to Adobe Rock near my home here in Utah. I haven't laid foam for that part yet, but will do that either tonight or sometime tomorrow. Everything is a rush in deciding when to do it while giving me enough time for glue/paint to dry so I can add the next layer; all with that Monday evening deadline on the back of my mind! This photo should give you an idea of the shade of rock I am aiming for with the paint to:
SeeYou190 Track fiddler Kevin, I hear ya. They can be rather aggressive when they feel threatened. . In Indiana one year I had a goose keep me from getting back in my rental car for about twenty minutes. .-Kevin .
Track fiddler Kevin, I hear ya. They can be rather aggressive when they feel threatened.
.-Kevin
I bet you wish you had a little handheld pellet gun that day
I wonder about eating them I never had one. They are a pretty good size like a turkey. I know a spruce grouse tastes like crap because of all the pine products they eat. Canadian geese eat a lot of crap too. Funny I don't know about this being an up north boy for most of my life. I never went goose hunting though.
Interesting. Looks like a fun project.
Travis, I stab foam with a steak knife and then grab it with my fingernails and rip off a chunk. It's amazing at that point, almost all the rock texture carving is done for you. I might ad-lib a little bit after that but usually not. No two are ever the same but neither is a rock.
I forgot to mention, that is a cool rock formation. Isn't it funny how sometimes a rock formation is just out in the middle of nowhere, kind of like the one tree left alone in a farmer's field.
saronaterry Yes. Yes. Yes. Ooops, forgot to copy TF's post about Oceola. Definitly go. Terry
Thanks Terry. I didn't need much persuading but that's definitely good enough for me.
The heck with work tomorrow. What would you do? Go install siding on a porch or go for a train ride......... knock knock!
Hello! I'm going for a train ride tomorrow
PS Hey Mike, are you pissed off at me? Sometimes I read into things, maybe you're just having a long dinner outside of the Diner
herrinchoker Geese have a handy crank start. It's called a neck---Distract the goose with one hand, grab the sucker with the other, make like you are starting a model T, or a Massey Harrison. Breast out, fry in bacon fat, or pluck and bake in oven, with bacon strips over the breast. Put celery and apple sections in the cavity. For those of us who might not be as quick of hand as of long ago, four feet of 1/2 inch galvanized water pipe swung smartly works as well. herrinchoker
I busted a gut.. I forgot to reply after I added text to my quote and didn't even do my quote
My roommate Roy and I were sitting on my porch one evening. Towards the end of fall there was so many Canadian geese out on the ball field 10 ft from the back gate of my house.
Roy and I were drinking beer and Roy turned to me and said "Johnny I want to eat one of those" , I laughed.
He said here's what we're going to do. We are going to put several snare loops on the ball field and remove a piece of lattice under your porch. With the back gate open, we will have a high-speed recoil mounted under your porch to drag them in as they step in the snare.
It was one of those nights, you had to be there. I do not remember to many more hard laughs than that.
Anything's doable. It would have been even more funny if we would have done it but we didn't...... Sometimes when I recall the memory I wish we would have. I still don't know what they taste like I have your recipe herrinchoker. I think I might go get one this fall.
66 Mustang Rag Top
Three of us had just come in from a 18 day trip on Georges Bank. After consumption of a variety of adult beverages, the discussion came to the high cost of beef. One amongst us knew of a farm not far from Pt.Judith where Angus cattle were raised for market. The bright idea of rustleing a cow came to fruition. We set out with the top down, formulating a plan as we drove, I, being the most experienced, (I knew how to milk cows)was to enter the field, grab a cow, and lead it back to the road. At this point the three of us were going to stuff it into the back seat of the Mustang. The ruse was feighning car trouble, two of us started into the field, and had progressed no more than thirty yards at best, when a State Trooper pulled in back of the car we had come in.
Panic set in, and the two of us worked our way nearly 100 yards down the field before passing through the fence, and walked back to the car. The State Trooper smelled us I believe, before he heard us. 18 days on a fishing boat, anyone 1/4 mile downwind has a rough idea as to where you have been.
I forget exactly what we used for an excuse, I believe it was the settlement check under the visor got blown away because the top was down and we couldn't find it in the dark--when we got back to the Adult Beverage Center we realized that it would have been near impossible to put a Black Angus in the back seat of a 66 Mustang, and if we had, how would we hide it?
Over the years we have had many a laugh about the night we were going to steal a cow in a 66 Mustang.
The indisgressions of youth--
Track fiddler I bet you wish you had a little handheld pellet gun that day
Actually, I really no one would have seen that goose just totally own me.
A group of customers saw my predicament and all laughed themselves silly.
I had never even seen a goose before that. Them geese be crazy.