Back in the late 1970's I inherited a Super 8 film camera from my granddad. He used it for home movies and I ended up make a few home movies with it as well. But one feature of the...
I've always been intrigued about bats flying around at twilight and catching insects. We see them every evening on our fishing trips to lakes in Northern California. On one trip I decided...
Here is the very first time I attempted to cast for herring in San Francisco Bay and cook them. I only caught one, but I was pretty excited nonetheless! A fellow angler gave me a few...
My first automata. It's based on Paul Spooner's 'San Francisco and the San Andreas Fault' which is pictured in Rodney Peppé's automata book on page 133. The trickiest part I think...
I print my own railroad backdrops from images that I google. Here I show roughly how I do it.
My railroad is based on scenery in Northern California, so I google well known landmarks...
When I built the floor to ceiling canyon on the HO-scale Redwoods and Railroad in 1997, I had some friends come over and help apply the plaster. To make the canyon, I roughed out the...
One of my favorite pastimes is to go fishing early in the morning at the beach at Crissy Field. I try to go at least twice a week before work during the spring and summer. One day I noticed...
In this 4 minute video I show how I built a ferry slip headwork for my Redwoods and Pacific Railroad. Even though the tracks of the ferry slip end at a wall I wanted something more...
Railroad equipment rarely looks brand new in real life, so I like to weather my trains to give them that well worn look. In this video, my daughter and I weather a couple of Bachmann...