The first full day of the convention and following the official opening, there was the first session of clinics. I went to Photographing Models which was a basic entry level to model photography with a digital camera, although I felt the advise to use RAW files as your main archive (because they are smaller than TIFF files) was not correct.
After lunch it was keynote speaker, Ian Rice of England. And what a great speaker he was: informative, witty etc. He had images of his layouts (from early to present) including his sojourn to USA and Holland modelling. Then it was workshop sessions and I had a look at Brendon Lean (workmate from Manning Signs) doing figure painting and Graham Absalom explaining and showing his laser cutter.
Then a look at Eric Brooman’s fantastic Utah Belt, through about 150 images sent over to Kel Sherson for this presentation. At the official opening three MDC Utah Belt boxcars were given away as spot prizes. One went to Ray Parmenter (will have to see it running on my layout one day), one to Craig Galilee and one to a third attendee.
Happy hour and dinner followed, and then it was another Ian Rice presentation, this time on Realistic Operation, followed by Craig Galiliee on modelling the Sonora Desert. There were only six attendees at this clinic, but was up against both the NZ Model Railway Guild AGM and another Ian Rice clinic (Layout Planning -1).
Ray and I decided to head off home about 9:30pm.
A lot of North Island American modellers from Paul Hobbs, to Kel Sherson to John Bates were wanting to know what has happened to Brendon and Dave.
About Me
- John Stewart
- A 50-something New Zealander, with interests in photography, railroads, aviation, birds, fishing and astronomy. When I started this blog I was a data detective/report writer in a large agricultural company, but got made redundant in late 2009. Now I work as a labourer for a sign writing company.
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