I noticed this year's april issue didn't have any April Fools jokes.
Was it just me? Or was there really no fooling us this time?
You missed the rivet counting tool!
To the real rivet counters that was no joke. More like, why didn't I think of that?
Dave Nelson
Sir Madog You missed the rivet counting tool!
Oh dear, then the joke's really on me. Because I assumed it was that one paragraph announcement from George Sellios stating that he had decided to come out of retirement and restart production of his Fine Scale Miniatures line...
I thought at the time, "What a cruel prank to play on all those people who miss his products."
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
Either there wasn't one this April, or they took their realistic April Fools jokes way too far.
I still like the modelling weather article in the April issue a couple years ago. I wonder how they will top it...
S&S
Modeling the Pennsy and loving it!
Schuylkill and SusquehannaI still like the modelling weather article in the April issue a couple years ago. I wonder how they will top it...Smile, Wink & Grin
How about ambient smells for your layout? We all know ambient sound, but smells would certainly add a lot to the atmosphere. My new layout has a waterfront/harbor scene on it (well, it is a waterfront scene) and I will add the sound of seagulls and water to it. I´d like to add that typical smell of sea water and dead fish to it, but have not yet figured out how to do it. You know, the smell has to disappear, when the layout is not being operated ...
Sir Madog: I´d like to add that typical smell of sea water and dead fish to it, but have not yet figured out how to do it. You know, the smell has to disappear, when the layout is not being operated ...
I´d like to add that typical smell of sea water and dead fish to it, but have not yet figured out how to do it. You know, the smell has to disappear, when the layout is not being operated ...
Get some live lobsters and fresh clams from the fish market. Hang the bags from hooks under your harbor scene. When the op session is over, retrieve the clams and lobsters, boil them up and eat them.
Y'know, next time we do lobster, I'm going to take pictures and submit them...
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
MisterBeasleyGet some live lobsters and fresh clams from the fish market.
Any idea how expensive lobsters and clams are in my neck of the woods are? I prefer an electronic device to solve the issue...
I loved the one a few years ago where they suggested building a fireman controller for steam layouts...you know where you have to shovel coal, or the train goes into emergency?
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
Sir Madog: Any idea how expensive lobsters and clams are in my neck of the woods are? I prefer an electronic device to solve the issue...
If you model New England in the Transition Era, they will be a lot more affordable. Even now, our summertime prices are only $3.99 a pound - cheaper than a decent steak.
How about a can of herring, or even lutefisk?
The missus tells me that´s a reason for a divorce!
Sir MadogHow about ambient smells for your layout?
Someone tried that in the 1980`s.......it was called Olfactory Airs........did not last very long ......with the guy owing money to creditors.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
rdgk1se3019Someone tried that in the 1980`s.......it was called Olfactory Airs........did not last very long ......with the guy owing money to creditors.
So he was OK until the bank came sniffing around...
I notice DavidH66's post was dated April 3. Perhaps he thought the "April issue" was the one that came out around April first. MR's April Fool feature has, the two dozen times I have seen it, comes out in the issue labeled "April" on the cover. which comes out around March 1.
No joke, just the way magazines work.
actually I had realized while reading the May issue I didn't find a joke in the April one.