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| Galen's winning entry in Walthers 2023 NMRBO |
Good friend, and longtime blog reader and correspondent, Galen Gallimore, is the winner of this year's Walthers National Model Railroad Build-Off. Congratulations Galen!
You can read about Galen's win at his blog, and all his writings about building his diorama can be found in his posts tagged with nmrbo23.
I took my tackle box down from the shelf and filled the empty space with the blog, along with my virtual pens, pencils, and typewriter. If there's any breaking news I'll certainly post about it, but other than that, I'll be exploring lost lakes and looking for the elusive Space Hopper :-) Regular programming will resume in the fall.
I got back to work recently on the black walnut armatures and added quite a number of finer branches. They were twisted up from 30 gauge aluminum wire and then wrapped onto the branches here and there to fill out the shapes.
At this stage I've established the basic form of each tree, and have brushed on a coat of white glue to firm them up.
Applying the bark should be the next step. Would this be called 'barking'? British readers out there might be inclined to say yes :-)
I was getting caught up on some serious reading and was quite surprised to find this railroad cartoon shoehorned amongst Chilly Willy, Sugar Foot, and all the gang. I guess in 1957 when that cartoon was first published, tossing in a story about narrow gauge railroading to fill space didn't seem unusual as it does today.
Now, excuse me as I get back to finding out what Space Mouse is up to.
