2023 Amherst / Springfield show report and pictures

[Ed Kapuscinski]

There was a new (to me) outfit called Mini Prints.  They specialize in 3D printing tiny figures and painting them.  They also have service where they 3D scan your entire body in whatever pose you want and 3D print and paint it.  I asked them about the cost but now I have forgotten.  Old age!  I would like to say $200 but that's a WAG.  They do allow you to print 5x from the scan for the price.

$50! Totally worth it: https://www.miniprints.com/product/ed-k/

They also do all sorts of other cool stuff.

[C855B]

$50! Totally worth it: https://www.miniprints.com/product/ed-k/

Too cool, Ed. Too cool.

[mu26aeh]

That acid car looks pretty trippin'.  Can't wait for second release ( preferred paint isn't in #1)

[MK]

was that the guy opposite side of building from Spring creek? I bought a couple cars from him.. I was probably too late on the locos... wish I would of known...

Yes!  That was them!  They are local, at least in the same state as the show, Massachusetts.

[MK]

$50! Totally worth it: https://www.miniprints.com/product/ed-k/

They also do all sorts of other cool stuff.

Told you my memory isn't that good anymore!    Thanks for checking Ed.

[RSWController]

I scratchbuilt my model of the Missabe Dock 6. The dock was retrofitted with a conveyor loading system but half the dock still has the chutes for gravity loading. I used a gentleman off Shapeways who modeled them after the actual Missabe loading chutes.

As far as Great Lakes freighters, while not cheap, by far the best option is N Scale Ships. For realistic modern freighters, the Sylvan models do not compare to what Pete does. I have used Sylvan details though and they are nice. I have two finished ships from Pete/N Scale Ships. One is the Incan Superior and the other is a “saltie”. Pictures of each can been seen on his website. I also used a kit from him to model the “classic” Interlake Herbert C. Jackson. The 1000-footer you see at the dock I posted is a scratchbuilt model of the Indiana Harbor.

[sirenwerks]

Athearn's new tank car looks nice. Any idea of the prototype? Can never have too many tank cars.

[milw156]

Ahhhh, Marquette.  Said like Harrison Ford in "The Last Crusade".

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Marquette+Ore+Dock/@46.5796808,-87.4021209,2868m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x4d4e2716060cf413:0x62cfe7eda3fa70b5!8m2!3d46.5793444!4d-87.3880421!16s%2Fg%2F11j10q_vgk

Stood by where that marina now is in 1988 as it was loading a boat. It was deafening, as well as huge! They are really excited about this kit.

[Jbub]

Athearn's new tank car looks nice. Any idea of the prototype? Can never have too many tank cars.

Here's a whole train of them hauling sulfuric acid from Rio Tinto/Kennecott copper outside of Salt Lake City

[keeper]

I scratchbuilt my model of the Missabe Dock 6. The dock was retrofitted with a conveyor loading system but half the dock still has the chutes for gravity loading. I used a gentleman off Shapeways who modeled them after the actual Missabe loading chutes.

As far as Great Lakes freighters, while not cheap, by far the best option is N Scale Ships. For realistic modern freighters, the Sylvan models do not compare to what Pete does. I have used Sylvan details though and they are nice. I have two finished ships from Pete/N Scale Ships. One is the Incan Superior and the other is a “saltie”. Pictures of each can been seen on his website. I also used a kit from him to model the “classic” Interlake Herbert C. Jackson. The 1000-footer you see at the dock I posted is a scratchbuilt model of the Indiana Harbor.

What a belter! I like it! 

[keeper]

Stood by where that marina now is in 1988 as it was loading a boat. It was deafening, as well as huge! They are really excited about this kit.

This is killing me. I want one now!

 

[Maletrain]

So, what does Ed look like in N scale?  Ed, did you get a print of yourself in N?

You can even order your own @Ed Kapuscinski - https://www.miniprints.com/product/ed-k/

[milw156]

This is killing me. I want one now!

 

Think how cool this could be to automate the raising and lowering of some of the chutes!

[keeper]

Think how cool this could be to automate the raising and lowering of some of the chutes!

Absolutely!
There should be enough space in the ore bins for some kind of mechanism.

[Lemosteam]

Stood by where that marina now is in 1988 as it was loading a boat. It was deafening, as well as huge! They are really excited about this kit.

If you drove through Marquette that day, the old steel trestle through town to the other loading dock, now a historical site, would still have been there; did you see it?.

My children love trains and we take the opportunity to watch them when we can.  Similarly we were in the marina parking lot in say 2003 maybe, and some old GN U boats started pushing some ore cars up onto the dock.  Then the ship pulled in on that side, slowly. We got excited when the chutes dropped into the boat's ore bays.

We were in the parking lot or on the dirt road pier next to it- google wont let me go into the marina or the pier, but this was the basic vantage point we had from the parking spaces there:

https://www.google.com/maps/@46.5822965,-87.3862017,3a,45.3y,204.23h,93.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1siMiKuPCodQep669VHXAgNg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

To this day I am still amazed at how far and fast the boat lowered into the water during the process.  Very cool to see- we stayed till the boat left. 

I'm sure @pnolan48 has the right boat to satisfy the locale.