Hi All, This is a story of 2 recent eBay wins with a very happy ending. As some of you may remember my good friend Gus Minardi is a true modeling genius when working with the S Scale Aurora plastic truck models C 1960s. He made a red Texaco gas tanker with a White cabover 3000 tractor a few years back.
Recently he pointed out the rarest Aurora model to me as an eBay listing, the Ford tractor with the flatbed with the excavator. He sort of follows them and mentioned they usually go for big $$ especially if they are not assembled. This model was assembled. I bid what I thought was low but still won. A week later I found a loose van trailer and tanker, also assembled. I won those too. I gave them to Gus shortly after Halloween. On Christmas Eve he got Donna to pick them up and slip them under our tree. http://www.lanestrains.com/Santa_Gus.jpg At about 9:00 PM on Christmas Eve, I wanted to run my fabulous new S Helper Service Tsunami equipped NW2. That is when I noticed them. It knocked me out! I am truly lucky to have such great and talented friends. I am going to put the Cooper Jarrett trailer on my F39 on my display shelf. There might be a bridge clearance issue with the excavator but it still looks great! Speaking of F39, as previously mentioned the new issue of the PRR T &HS Keystone Modeler is solely devoted Gus' trailers and stunning F30 TOFC flat cars. http://www.prrths.com/Keystone%20Modeler/Keystone_Modeler.htm I did the photography. Perhaps you would like to join the PRR T &HS, or donate to support The Keystone Modeler. I did pretty well last year in getting new bodies to join. I am a bit behind this year. Save my quota! Finally, I thought I would pass along my "secret" about photographing my models. Since my real studio is 3 miles away at my Pop's house, I am not running over there for every little model photo or project in progress photo I want to take. It is real tough. I got 2 pieces of white foamcore board. I flop 1 down on my bed and prop the other 1 up vertically with any heavy box etc. I use a Vivitar 285 flash point almost vertically with a piece of white cardstock wrapped in a U shape around the flash head for forward bounce. (Built in camera flashes are generally not powerful enough to pull this off) BAM, a quick n dirty instant model studio that takes 1 minute to set up and costs $3.00. I jack the flash to HIGH with the camera set to F8. I usually get something good. It seems to blow out the white background leaving the model to stand out and almost levitate. Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988 See my finished models at: http://www.lanestrains.com Winner of the 2007 Josh Seltzer NASG Website Award Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! Custom Train Parts Design http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls ***Join the PRR T&HS*** The other members are not ALL like me! http://www.prrths.com http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
