Click here to see available Handouts and Files from various clinics at the EJ2019 Convention. (not all clinicians provided handouts to post on the website) Clinics are a big part of any Convention, and this will be no exception. More than 45 rail clinics will be scheduled from Thursday afternoon through Saturday afternoon. Several will be offered more than once. In addition to “traditional” classroom style we will offer several “hands-on” clinics for you to make and take a model. If you would like to present a clinic please contact our Clinic Chairman, Bill Brown, MMR by clicking this link to send him an email at larcproducts@yahoo.com
SOLD OUT! Modeling With A Master SOLD OUT! Jack Ellis of Bar Mills Scale Model Works will present a three-hour hands-on clinic. Participants will construct, finish and weather two walls of a Bar Mills kit under Jack’s tutelage. You will take home the kit to finish on your own, along with several samples of weathering powder and a container of Jack’s own mix of stain. The session is limited to 15 participants at an extra fare of only $10.00.SOLD OUT! Digital University SOLD OUT! Parts 1, 2 & 3 Erich Whitney & Kaylee Zheng will conduct a session Thursday September 19, 2:00 – 5:00 PM. Participants must commit to bringing a computer and two locomotives to the clinic. They will download the latest version of JMRI, and receive instruction on the many possibilities it affords for decoder programming and layout control. Utilizing the skills they have learned, they will speed-match their two locomotives and adjust several CV's to enhance locomotive performance. Registration is limited to 15 members at an extra fare of $10.00. Don’t miss this one!
Parts 4, 5 & 6 Thursday evening 7:00 – 11:00 PM, Tom Nelson will offer a session on LCC (Layout Command Control), and Chuck Diljak, will cover “Using JMRI Ops Pro.” These clinics by Tom and Chuck are open to all convention attendees at no extra fare. Make & Take Clinics Lighting Your Structure Interiors with Roomettes Barry Silverthorn Fri. 01:00 PM Onondaga Room G $10 Fee There are more opportunities for lighting structure interiors than ever, yet many modelers haven't explored their options. This make-and-take clinic will show you how to assemble and install Roomettes interiors in your buildings. We'll also discuss integrating them with Woodland Scenics' Just Plug system. Clinic fee: $10 so one Roomettes kit will be provided. Bring an X-Acto knife and one of the following finished DPM structure kits: 10100 - Kelly's Saloon/Big Deal Pawn/US Post Office; 10200 - Robert's Dry Goods; 10300 - Cutting's Scissors; 10900 - Townhouse #1/Main St. Apartments/Valley Apartments; 11100 - Townhouse #3/Grand House/River Pass Apartments; 11600 - Carr's Parts/Don's Hardware; 11800 - 1st National Bank/Patriot Appliance.
Assemble a Funaro & Camerlengo Resin Kit Friday 2:30 to 5:00 PM $20 Fee Limited to 20 attendees In this Make & Take workshop you will be taken through the assembly of a Funaro & Camerlengo resin kit. You will learn about resin kits and the techniques you will need to assemble any resin kit. A list of tools needed for this workshop will soon be available to those registered for the workshop. HO Scale Kit: 6320 - Delaware, Lackawana & Western 40' WD DS 1924 ARA Boxcar w/ Steel Ends and DL&W Decals. Funaro & Camerlengo are american manufactures of finely detailed HO Gauge Scale Model Resin crafstman kits of rolling stock, including freight cars, passenger cars and trolleys, bulding structures and misc. accessories for U.S. Prototype railroads. Some "S" and "O" Scale Freight Car kits are also manufactured. Their kits span the time period form 1890's to the present with emphasis on the transition era (1940 to the late 1950's) and are geared toward serious modelers and hobbyists.
Click here to see available Handouts and Files from various clinics at the EJ2019 Convention.
Full Clinic Schedule COTILLION 1
2:00 PM Jeff Paston Railroads in the Streets of Syracuse
3:30 PM John Feraca, MMR Building the Beaver Creek Lumber Branch Line
7:00 PM Bob Hamm, MMR Building a Helix
8:30 PM Irwin Nathanson Miniatur Wunderland
10:00 PM Irwin Nathanson Gulliver's Gate
COTILLION 2
2:00 PM Ed Olszewski Powering Your Accessories
3:30 PM Dave Babson (Near) Zero Derailments: Tune-Up Tips for Rolling Stock
7:00 PM Bill Brown, MMR Inexpensive Trees From Natural Materials
8:30 PM Bill Brown, MMR
10:00 PM Bill Brown, MMR
COTILLION 3
2:00 PM Dave Yale 3D Printing in Model Railroading
3:30PM Bob Mohowski Making Coal Loads for Hopper Cars
7:00 PM Tom Nelson Intro to LCC Advanced LCC
9:00 PM Chuck Diljak JMRI Operations
Pro
ONONDAGA F
2:00 PM Digital University 1-2-3 Erich Whitney and Kaylee Zehng (Note that this is a pre-paid workshop that is NOT OPEN FOR GENERAL ADMISSION)
Pre-Registration Required COTILLION 1 8:30 AM Roger Beiswenger Build a Small Switching Layout
10:00 AM Bob Wilkins A "Sound" Idea for a Clinic
1:00 PM Bob Wilkins Making "Nightime" on Your Layout
2:30 PM Dana Brown Scratch Building a Working Semaphore Signal
4:00 PM Ed O'Connell Ops 101: Getting The Fun From All The Work That You've Done
7:00 PM Otto Vondrak Meet the Editor of Railroad Model Craftsman
8:30 PM Lou Sassi Improve Your Trucks & Trains
10:00 PM Bob Hamm, MMR Building Timber Trestles
COTILLION 2
8:30 AM Jim Mayo Moving Cars on the Shreveport & Central Mississippi
10:00 AM Jim Kline Intro to NeoPixels
1:00 PM Kaylee Zheng Using Mobile Speakers for DCC Sound
2:30 PM John McHugh Demystifying the Achievement Program: Preparing Paperwork
4:00 PM Scooter Youst Using Arduino & Raspberry PI to Start in DCC for Under $150
7:00 PM Bruce DeYoung, MMR Modeling Era Specific Gas Stations
8:30 PM Bruce DeYoung, MMR Railroads and the Natural Ice Industry: A Symbiotic Relationship
10:00 PM Tom Oxnard, MMR Scratch Building a Diesel Locomotive
COTILLION 3
8:30 AM Sue Cooley It’s the Little Things
10:00 AM Bruce DeYoung, MMR Logging Railroad Design Elements
1:00 PM Bob Hamm, MMR Building Rocks
2:30 PM Jeff Gerow LCC – Another Option to Control a Layout
4:00 PM Mal Houck Steam Locomotive Modeling, Soldering and Fabrication
7:00 PM Bruce Robinson Model Electricity to Your Model Town
8:30 PM Mal Houck Shortcuts and Tips for Building Models
10:00 PM Bob Verkuyl The Short Line Enterprises Story
ONONDAGA F
1:00 PM Barry Silverthorn Lighting Your Structure Interiors with Roomettes (Note that this is a pre-paid workshop that is NOT OPEN FOR GENERAL ADMISSION) Pre-Registration Required
2:30 PM Stephen Funaro Make & Take Workshop: Build a DL&W HO Boxcar Funaro & Camerlengo Resin kit (Note that this is a pre-paid workshop that is NOT OPEN FOR GENERAL ADMISSION) Pre-Registration Required
7:00 PM Jack Ellis Modeling with a Master (Note that this is a pre-paid workshop that is NOT OPEN FOR GENERAL ADMISSION) Pre-Registration Required
ONONDAGA G
9:00 AM
10:30 AM Syracuse China Rides the Rails
2:30 PM Dave Myers How to Use Gatorfoam
ONONDAGA H
8:30 AM Quilting
2:30 PM
Card Making COTILLION 1
Tom Staton Making It Look Real, It’s the Little Things That Count
10:00 AM John McHugh Demystifying the Achievement Program: Preparing Paperwork
1:00 PM Ed Koehler NYO&W Branch Lines
2:30 PM Ed Koehler Operating Trolley Museums in PA
4:00 PM Ed Koehler Modern Freight Handling Facilities on Long Island COTILLION 2
8:30 AM Dave Yale 3D Printing in Model Railroading
10:00 AM Cheryl & Lou Sassi Scenery Along the Right of Way
1:00 PM Jeff Paston Railroads in the Streets of Syracuse
2:30 PM Scooter Youst Using Arduino & Raspberry PI to Start in DCC for Under $150
4:00 PM Bernie Messenger Mixing colors
COTILLION 3
8:30 AM Dave Myers Gatorfoam..."What Do I Do With This Stuff?"
10:00 AM Kaylee Zheng Hot Rod Chicken: The Chicken Car and Live Poultry Transport
1:00 PM Ron Stacy PanPastel Weathering Primer – Ugly is in the Eye of the Beholder
2:30 PM Mal Houck Modeling the NYO&W
4:00 PM Leonard Amrhein |