On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:59:13 -0700 (PDT), Benjamin Hom wrote This is certainly true. I don't speak for all RPMers nor do I have any control over their behavior individually or collectively. However, I

On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:46:35 -0500 (CDT), Joel Holmes wrote I have no idea. Well actually I have some idea, I presume it would have to be at an NMRA event of some sort. Most RPM meets are not. Andy

On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:35:02 -0700, Anthony Thompson wrote Jimmy Booth prodded me back in the roaring 90s to give Sn3 a try, even took me on some really fabulous layout tours at Madison in 97. I ended

On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:21:45 -1000, WILLIAM PARDIE wrote They probably couldn't figure out how to bundle it with a "boxcar sound module" so they could get $100 for it so they dropped it. Andy

Another detrimental aspect of contests that may not have been mentioned are the indirect effects of "so-and-so always wins" syndrome. At the aforementioned 1988 N&WHS convention, Dean Freytag brought

On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:19:24 -0700, Jack Burgess wrote It was merely a suggestion that might provide useful information to the NMRA. The NMRA seems interested in "fixing" the contest, when the reality

On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:32:40 EDT, tgregmrtn wrote Well as I'm sure you're aware, one doesn't need a trophy to have an ego. Everybody does. If I've done anything right at all, at least I admit it. I do

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:26:50 -0700, Anthony Thompson wrote No matter. Subjectivity and contest protocol is for those who care about contests to debate so I probably shouldn't have said anything. Basic

And no doubt, this has an influence on the judge whether he is aware of it or not. Which means, as many have long contended, it's not a model contest but a documentation contest or writing contest. Th

Military modelers generally don't operate their models prototypically either. Perhaps we railroad modelers don't have to worry about brake shoe wear, but military modelers generally don't have to make

I really thought that was out of the way. How many people from either camp think the two belong in the same room, still? At least there won't be an NMRA contest at Naperville. Andy

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:15:37 -0700, Jack Burgess wrote How do you figure that? The change could have had some effect if it had taken place 25 years ago, but 10 years ago was 5 years after all the hors

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:43:51 -0400, mike brock wrote I gotta wonder how you ever got to be an NMRA officer in the first place :-) I've pretty much decided I don't want to be an officer in anything, an

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:04:53 -0500, Al and Patricia Westerfield wrote Every single adjective you used is subjective... expert, competent, positive are all subjective terms and a matter of degree (or d

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:31:46 -0700, Jack Burgess wrote I don't believe that model building is a sport. The analogy doesn't fit for me. A sport is a real-time head to head competition, decided in the m

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:42:11 -0700, Richard Hendrickson wrote It seems that there is nearly a 100% consensus now with both the NMRA and RPMers. Unfortunately, this wasn't reached until 75% of the RPMe

At least three brands were available when I first encountered the stuff in 1972, Krazy Glue, Duradix, and whatever Eastman 910 was at the time. Andy

On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 13:32:32 -0400, Andy Harman wrote Duh, I just thought of a way. Just take a Kadee car body with the holes already in it and make a drilling template. And then just plug the holes on

On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:54:35 -0000, John wrote At least the undec Branchline 40' cars I have contain both the 7 and 8-rung ladders. I do wish Kadee made a few more ladder styles, but I don't expect th

Oh absolutely. Heck, the guy I was hanging out with was a sub for the main guy who was on vacation, only worked that job 3 weeks and he could tell me a lot about the manifest as it rolled into the yar