CraigZ Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 http://www.pbase.com/dh30973/cocoa2012&page=all The modeling at RPM shows tends to be really good... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Those road vehicles from Blair Davies are particularly nice, and some fella called Craig Zeni has some good work in there too - I see Dave Hussey is keeping up some good work as well Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshine coast Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Excellent work on show there Craig .....thanks for posting the link .... the only ones I felt were a bit "off" were the 2 Southern loaded gondolas with a load mainly made up of chopped up plastic sprues...looking like ....chopped up sprue .... Regards Trevor... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Gwinnett Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Craig's locos looked especially nice, I also rather liked Annette Harman's PS Hoppers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Some nice stuff there. Caught this from the elist as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 I see our pal Jon Grant got a couple of things in there as well....in the background of one of the photos (with his name on it) there appeared to be a Tangerine/Blue CRR of NJ "Janus" double ended diesel (like a British prototype). I dunno who's this was though. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Gwinnett Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Craig, what's the provenance of the Penn Central GP? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigZ Posted January 15, 2012 Author Share Posted January 15, 2012 Pete, the CNJ double ender is mine - Overland brass with my paint job on it. I swapped some kits to Jon Grant for those two cars with his name on them. Jon, the PC GP38 is an Atlas model that I detailed/painted/lettered. The PC had a pretty substantial roster of GP38s that were purchased new by the PC...they didn't inherit any from the PRR, NYC or NH. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Craig, Very good! Do you have a better photo of it you can post? I love those things... Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clark33 Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Craig, you hit the spot, I was just googling '... rpm cocoa ...'. How do you transport the models? A padded box as hand luggage on the plane? My experience here was taking model freight cars to Manila on airphilexpress. It's a fifty seat Fokker on dirt track runway using what looks like an old bus station as a terminal. Anyway, the carefully taped box had to be untaped at check-in by the armed security, no x-ray scanners here. They had never seen anything in miniature, but were still very nosy. Fortunately I had a roll of tape in my bag. Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigZ Posted January 15, 2013 Author Share Posted January 15, 2013 Talk about digging up an old thread Phil, I drive down...625 miles each way, about 9.5 hours. I would not, ever, travel with models on an airplane. My fear would be that no matter how well I packed, security would insist on hand inspection of them and would promptly clean off details... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
warbonnetuk Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Talk about digging up an old thread Phil, I drive down...625 miles each way, about 9.5 hours. I would not, ever, travel with models on an airplane. My fear would be that no matter how well I packed, security would insist on hand inspection of them and would promptly clean off details... Craig On my last trip to the US a couple of years ago I managed to time it that me and my travelling companion were in San Fran for the Bay Area RPM meet, so we both took a few models with us to show. My friend packed his in his cabin baggage well wrapped in bubble wrap with plastic storage boxes (brand name in the UK is Really Useful Boxes) and then inserted in the middle of his cloths for the trip. I took a GP38 and a couple of freight cars on as hand baggage - just then packed into a laptop bag using the same Really Useful Box / bubble wrap combo. Like you I feared the worst with security getting very excited by printed circuit boards and odd shapes showing up on the x-ray but at both Heathrow T5 and SFO no-one was that bothered and it went thro the x-ray with no questions asked and no unpacking involved. However as the result of a bad experience with US security / customs taking a knife to my wife's hold luggage on one trip I'd never put really valuable / delegate stuff as hold baggage........ Dan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 They will do that if the case has been locked, I'm afraid. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVSNE Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Craig, Good to finally meet you at Cocoa - even if only briefly before Bill's clinic. It's great to put a face with a name! As Cocoa was a side trip on a family visit to the big mouse in Orlando, I was only at the meet for a day, and didn't bring any models. Tony Thompson flies with detailed models all the time - I'm not brave enough to try it - but check out his latest blog post for some tips on how he travels with models. (modelingthesp@blogspot.com) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 http://modelingthesp.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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