Questions, Questions, Questions. Clarification?

Hello again.  Apparently a couple of our latest posts have causd some questions which I hope to clarify here.

First, we don’t ever intend to charge you for visiting the website.  When we talk about generating revenue by your visits, we mean structuring and probably adding adds so that THEY pay for the website.  You already see adds over on the left side.  By using this and others, the advertisers provide the income.  There are many details to be worked out and if it detracts from the look of the website (meaning too many/too much space) it won’t happen.

Next is future projects.  YES, we have implied and promised many, many projects over the years.  Obviously, based on our completion percentage, we have not done exceptionally well in this area.  There are certain things that will deffinitely happen, because they must.  One is making all of our DVD contents downloadable.  That doesn’t mean that DVD’s will go away, but they will probably be available only at shows and by special order, kind of like we handle pre-printed textures currently.  (I have not forgotten about the “name the download” contest.  There will be a winner)

We ask for ideas for future projects because we want to know what YOU want and along that same path we want to know of all the things that we have suggested, implied and promised, in the past, what ones do you really want.  Let us know and in a week or two we will let you know which ones we will put back on the front burner and which ones will be officially cancelled.

Thanks for your continued support.

Update on Monday, October 6, 2014 at 9:34AM by Dave

Well thank you for your feedback so far, we are getting a lot of requests for new items, but besides those, I really want to know about items that we have previously mentioned.  Obviously Chama has allready been mentioned and a few others, like a church and a roundhouse.  I am not specifically going to remind you of anything.  I’m hoping for those items that we mentioned that so stuck in your minds that you can’t forget them, because if you can’t remember them, they will probably fall off the list forever.  One thing I would specifically like to ask about is the idea of a 1 stall enginehouse.  We allready have the 2 stall G&D in wood and the 1 stall Pole Barn in corrugated steel.  Specifically, what STYLE of enginehouse are you all asking about, brick maybe, a 1 stall version of the G&D???

Comments

[John]

Dave,

Typical 'small town' USA type buildings from the 20's thru the 50's. A small fire house would be nice. Perhaps a 5&10 store. Corner gas stations, etc.

A single stall engine house and support buildings. The upper part of a small turn table. If one wants the Atlas tables could be used as a platform.

And needless to say the second hotel. :))

Thank you for all that you have done to date,

John

[-Rob]

I second a recommendation for a small 20's - 30's firehouse & single stall engine house (suitable for narrow gauge)...and that other hotel. :-)

btw: after downloading the files, I must say that the hotels were well worth the wait!

Thank you Thom & Dave for all your hard work.

[David C]

As a UK resident I would welcome the chance to download your DVD's rather than risk having to pay 20% tax plus import duty plus 8 GBP to post office to collect above.

Is it possible for you to look at a UK prototype?

[Sean]

I would also like a 5&10 store and a Newengland area small town church.

[Steve]

Being from and living on the North East Coast of Maine, something in the lobster/fishing type buildings. Shingles and weathered siding buildings.

[jerry]

I'll second the motion for a small NE church.

[Dave]

about the church, Wood or stone?

[Bill Laird]

What has happened to the Chama yard buildings project. Will any of the buildings be released? If so, when? I want to do the Chama yard complex in On30.

[John]

The New England church sounds really good. In my travels thru New England most churchs that I saw were wood however I did see a couple of stone churches.

Also speaking of New England how about a covered bridge?

John

[Dave]

The big problem with Chama is all of the conflicting dimensional information and the Coal skip and loader pit. The building it's self has been done for over a year.

[Dave]

the second hotel, the church and the engine house in that order.

[Sean]

Wood sided church's painted white are most common in NE.

[John]

Thom,

The 2nd hotel, church and engine house in that order sounds great.

As for the single stall engine house the real ones that I have seen are straight forward in construction and generally have a small machine shop attached or a small building close and used as a machine shop.

There used to be a web site called 'Paper ville paper models that had a simple one stall engine house. With your textures that engine house could be made into a nice model.

John

[James]

I would like to see a One-Stall Enginehouse, similar to the John Allen G&D Two-Stall. I model in the late 1800s era, nothing newer than 1899.

Haven't purchased any "kits" yet, but plan to soon. And everything looks outstanding. Great web-site, too.

[Dave]

he single stall engine house is in the same style as the G&D one

[John]

Single or dual Brick Engine House, and some brownstones stores, Small town train station or Grand Central Station. :)

[Dave]

Quick question,

the Engine house needs to be split/spliced across two pages because of its length. In the past I just did a butt joint (old engine house)
I'm thinking that a uneven edge might be better, say where boards are naturally separated. kind of a zipper effect that would at least visually convey how the walls go together. Is this desirable or a needless complication.

I got distracted and accidently finished the rustic church this morning. Instead of putting finishing touches on the second hotel "the Hotel Bruce""Continental"
back to the hotel.

[James]

Regarding the Engine House and the "zipper effect"... I would see that as an unnecessary complication. As long as there could be a short description that there is a butt-joint between the pages would be more than adequate.