Friday, January 10, 2014 at 4:48PM Jerry Leeds shares these pix of his “Creeky Roofing Co” build. As is his habit, he has made a couple of modifications, adding a second wing, a loading dock and generally improving the model in an “I should have thought of that” way.
Monday, January 6, 2014 at 3:36PM Ari not only shows his usual building skills but some really nice lighting as well. he lit up the sign and shows off the interior.
Not on its final base and missing the wooden bench but looking pretty finished to me.
The roof is not yet attached in this pic but note the extras and the sign support.
and one just to show off the lights
Wednesday, January 1, 2014 at 10:07PM As I work on compiling the “Waterfront” dvd, (our 14th disk) my brother and I contemplated the future. We still occasionally sell the odd pre-printed kit. Some of our customers don’t have printers (or computers).
This takes a lot of valuable time and effort to do this. My possition is we should stop doing it. Brother Dave, good soul that he i,s just can’t turn anyone away. This triggered another string of thought. DVD’s and disks in general are fast becoming obsolete.
That’s right, in a year or two at mos,t disks will be gone. Even now it’s not unusual to see a new computer without a DVD drive. Not a disaster for us because a vast majority of kits are sold as downloads but a significant number of people collect the disks. They buy them as soon as they come out sight unseen. (No complaints so far.)
But what will we sell at big hobby shows? SD cards, thumb drives? What ever media is on the horizon? Our 15th collection (Mine structures) might just be a jump drive.
Food for thought.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014 at 9:59PM No, not Bonnie and Clyde but lots of little finicky fixes, especially to the wooden fire escape. I originally stuck closely to the drawings by Harry Brunk, however the drawings were not as precise as we needed them to be. As the test build progresses I’ve had to make about 3 rounds of changes.
They will be worth it though. The hotel which will be available in brick and wood looks beautiful with a lobby interior and shadow boxs behind the windows. Pix soon.
