Bill: I for one agree with you about not touching ones models.
If need be, one should ask first. And I don't believe being a judge
gives anyone special rights to paw contest models.
Maybe your sign should have read "Please Do Not Touch. Thank You."
Any way right on !
Art Ferguson
--- In [email protected], "Bill Lane" <bill@...> wrote:
>
> I learned the hard way many years ago. I just finished my first B&O I12
> caboose. I took it to the South Jersey S Scalers meeting that very night and
> set it on the table. My mistake - because there was potato chips in the same
> house and sadly on that SAME table. Yup - not 10 minutes after my arrival
> there was a big ole greasy Wise potato chip thumbprint (NO partial print
> here!) right on the side of the bay window cupola. It would take NO special
> CSI skills to figure out whose thumb it was. Luckily I was able to wipe it
> off quickly and touch up the damage the next day
>
>
>
> At the PRR T&HS conventions, the model room committee had a policy of
> moving every model in the room to a better place for photography. They felt
> that because they were all modelers they knew what do to. It has been a long
> time since I placed my models there. It is a popular vote with starting this
> year as a best in show only. I strongly disagree with anyone handling
> someone else's models for any reason. I surely would not do it.
>
>
>
> I am not implying the judges at Scranton would be disrespectful or eat
> potato chips and handle models. I spent a reasonable amount of time fixing
> my 5495 just a few days before going. I all but broke off the cab wind
> deflector assembling it for the first time so that had to be fixed. It is
> just my way of "do not touch" at all times. If the modeler needs to show
> full the underbody it would be displayed with a mirror somehow. If I lost
> points for my do not touch sign so be it.
>
>
>
> Thank You,
> Bill Lane
>
> Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1987
>
> See my finished models at:
> <http://www.lanestrains.com/> http://www.lanestrains.com
> Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale!
>
>
>
> See my layout progress at:
>
> <http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Layout.htm>
> http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Layout.htm
>
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> http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm
>
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> (Trading is MUCH preferred)
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>
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> The other members are not ALL like me!
> <http://www.prrths.com/> http://www.prrths.com
> <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf>
> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf
>
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