{"id":1915,"date":"2011-11-07T07:39:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T12:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2011-11-07T07:39:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T12:39:08","slug":"craftsman-structure-convention-in-mansfield-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/?p=1915","title":{"rendered":"Craftsman Structure Convention in Mansfield, MA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spent some time Friday Evening building a Alkem Scale Models water tank and Saturday where I learned about backdrop painting, visited the vendors and heard Bernie Kempinski give his Civil War talk.   I enjoyed meeting and talking with Bernie and the other modelers present.  Building the Alkem water tank was a lot of fun. I learned quite a bit from everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I painted and completed assembly of the water tank and I think it turned out great.  This is probably the best looking structure I&#8217;ve ever built.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1914\" style=\"width: 133px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/watertank.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1914\" src=\"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/watertank-123x300.jpg\" alt=\"Water Tank\" title=\"Water Tank\" width=\"123\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1914\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/watertank-123x300.jpg 123w, http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/watertank-420x1024.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/watertank.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 123px) 100vw, 123px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water Tank<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This will certainly help to inspire me to get moving on the City Point model.   The first part of the City Point layout I&#8217;m planning to do will be the lead in tracks.  This area is probably the most basic and will allow me to experiment without having to redo a lot of structures and details. I ordered several flat cars from Bernie, as several images show flats cars parked there.<\/p>\n<p>Going to this convention might be the trigger that gets me off my butt and going on the City Point model.I have torn a Mantua General all apart for a planned rebuild, I just need to figure out how to mill down the flanges on those drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent some time Friday Evening building a Alkem Scale Models water tank and Saturday where I learned about backdrop painting, visited the vendors and heard Bernie Kempinski give his Civil War talk. I enjoyed meeting and talking with Bernie and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/?p=1915\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-model-railroads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1933,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}