During the banquet at the last Convention in Truro I happened to be sitting next to two of the organizers of this years Convention. I foolishly mentioned that it might be nice to have a clinic about layout building and scenery. STUPID ME! Before I knew it I was planning a clinic.
Last weekend we had the 2008 Maritime Federation of Model Railroaders Convention and Saturday was D-Day. In my case that meant “Demonstration Day”.
I scaled my demonstration back a bit since I would be the only one presenting, and made it just about doing scenery. As I mentioned in a previous post, I built 4 18″ square dioramas. I used 1/2″ plywood cut into 1-1/2″ strips for the frame and filled the inside with 1-1/2″ foam insulation. With all the talking I only managed to get scenery on 2 of the diorama’s.
This is what it was like through most of the day. There seemed to always be 2 or 3 people around the table asking questions or just watching. Some people even brought their friends back to give their own scenery course. I had a blast!
I brought a few trees to add to the scenes and bring them to life. They looked quite good, if I do say o myself.
Scott