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      • Building prototypes
        06/30/06
        thom (thom<at>clevermodels.com)
        Friday, June 30, 2006, 05:37 PM
        When I build the test prototypes of kits I'm looking at a lot of issues. Most importantly of course is to find errors and then fix them. On the small house for instance (finished this morning) I made 4 big changes

      • thom
        06/29/06
      • Get the word out
        06/26/06
        thom (thom<at>clevermodels.com)
        Monday, June 26, 2006, 10:10 AM
        Continuing to prototype the small house. With all the extreme amounts of layering possible there are so many variations. Of course I like to make the houses a bit distressed, so I'm cutting out extra panels of loo

      • the Small House
        06/10/06
        thom (thom<at>clevermodels.com)
        Saturday, June 10, 2006, 08:20 AM
        The small house project is nearly complete. Pretty good as it was not really planned. It seems that my favorite models always happen that way. What I like about this one is the multiple layers of wall texture. The b

      • Perlies
        06/06/06
        thom (thom<at>clevermodels.com)
        Tuesday, June 6, 2006, 10:52 AM
        I wonder what it is about the culture of model railroading that causes folks to purchase a kit and then not assemble it for months or years.
        This weekend at the great midwest train show, we got the same comments

      • a break from Project "X"
        06/03/06
        thom (thom<at>clevermodels.com)
        Saturday, June 3, 2006, 10:31 PM
        Just taking a break from working on "project X" and felt like sharing. Bro Dave found a very cool paper engine house on Ebay. It's at least 60 years old and I suspect a lot older. It must have represen

      • When it rains
        06/01/06
        thom (thom<at>clevermodels.com)
        Thursday, June 1, 2006, 04:42 PM
        When it rains...
        and it has been raining as a matter of fact. Remember a couple of weeks ago when I needed to repair water damage on the furniture factory demo from our layout. Well it came out great and gave m

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