by Bernard Traffic | Feb 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
I joined a Facebook group called 3D Printing for Model Trains and started to see what inexpensive resin printers were capable of. Blew my mind…. Some of you may remember my past foray into 3D when I printed up some scale beavers. What really got me was a post by...
by Bernard Traffic | Jan 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’ve never written about WHY I chose to model the Quebec Gatineau Railway. Until now. Wayyy back in 2012/2013 when I was contemplating building a model railroad I was the Toronto sales guy for Canadian recycled paper manufacturer Cascades. Cascades owned the...
by Bernard Traffic | Jan 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Eric Gagnon in his excellent Trackside Treasure blog suggested that 2020 was the year to Model & Railfan Local. He suggested that we do ‘a moustache’ and look at what’s right under our noses. That got me thinking for a couple of reasons. I run a...
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by Bernard Traffic | Jan 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
My project for the holiday break was to build a Walters plastic kit as a movie prop that my film-student son wanted to use for a stop-action animation project. I figured this was a good chance to practise a few techniques. I had picked up a Walthers American Hardware...
by Bernard Traffic | Jan 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
New decade, new post… Three years ago in January 2017 (what the hell!!!) I presented my (clearly) overly optimistic list of ‘to-dos’. Since a bunch of time has passed, it seemed to be time (ya think?) to check back in and re-evaluate where I am now and where I...
by Bernard Traffic | Apr 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
Experiment time!!!!! So I found a crappy old plastic atlas bridge and decided that I would try weathering it a few different ways to see which way I liked the best. The winningest technique will be what I use on a much more expensive metal bridge. First, I sprayed the...
