Model Railroading > Thank You BAPM 2010!!

Just wanted to send out a big thank you to the BAPM Committee for putting on what ended up being a very well attended and well run modelers meet. This So Cal visitor was impressed at the variety and high skilled modeling from all who displayed. The weathering clinic and "Summerail" shows I sat in for were both educational and entertaining, and the raffle boasted some fantastic prizes as promised.

I took plenty of photos during the event which I will be sure to upload to the web as soon as I get back home late this evening (spending the night in Sunnyvale). I'm sure others out there will have countless images to share as well.

Thanks again BAPM, I'll try to make this an annual trip, especially if you can pair it up with the DCI West comp again...

Mr. MRL



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/27/10 00:22 by MrMRL.

Yes, I'll add my thanks to all the organizers of this year's BAPM.

I have my pictures from this event up on the web now:

http://www.pbase.com/atsf_arizona/bapm2010&page=all

Nice to meet some of you and hope you enjoy the pictures.

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That's a awesome little layout. I'm guessing it's a complete double circle with one loop inside the building.

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

I'd add my thanks to the organisers for putting on a great event. It's been a real highlight of our vacation.

Dan Spalding & Chris Prior
Kent, UK (currently in Berkeley CA)

The industrial layout looks like a classic figure 8 folded back on itself.

This is a rather ingenious application of a classic idea and a great display for a structural and equipment model. I wonder if one of the Grandt Line 25T GE boxcabs could overcome the drag on the curves to pull the cut of cars.

BAPM 2010 was off da chain! Record number of modeler attendees, thanks to all that represented and came out.

funnelfan Wrote:
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> That's a awesome little layout. I'm guessing it's
> a complete double circle with one loop inside the
> building.


Yes, the show stopper might have been my good friend Greg Malinowski's crazy detailed/kitbashed/weathered Bay Freight Division - a small 36" diameter layout built on a perfectly round 1" thk piece of plywood! Those inside hidden curves and ones leading into the paved diamond crossing are about a 12" radius!!!

FYI, Greg notes that his industrial creation and "Mini-Mo module" focal point is a "placebo" factory. Harry and some of the other attendees will probably be posting close-up shots of it but the layout features INSANE detail like a trashed ROW, detailed loading dock/parking lot, hand-painted graffiti, realistic texture on his parking lot pavement and building rooftop, the most realistic concrete K-rails you'll ever see... so much eye candy on such a small layout!

BTW, nice to have you in attendance Robby as well as all of the other local and far away people attending our BAPM meet yesterday . We guestimate at least 110-120 people were in attendance yesterday (a new BAPM high attendance record) including many locals, a few people from SoCal, two Brits plus a Frenchman from "across the pond" and a few out of state people from Oregon, Arizona, and Nevada.

It was great to continue to put faces to some of the people I see here on TO and see their models up close.

John _ thank you for posting the photos - do you have any more photos ( or does anyone else for that matter) of the back(hidden) side of the layout or any taken closer to ground level, please? That really is superb!

Our Thanks to all the folks who attended a terrific BAPM 2010 meet!

We would also like to express our sincere thanks and gratitude to our generous sponsors and talented clinicians who helped make this meet possible:

Thanks to our generous Sponsors:
A-Line, Athearn Inc., BLMA Models, Berkeley Ace Hardware, Cannon & Co., Details West, ExactRail,Just Trains, Peter Arnold, Microscale Decals,
New Rail Models, Railmaster Hobbies, Tahoe Model Works, Tangent Scale Models, The Train Shop of Santa Clara, and Wm. K. Walthers Inc.

Thanks to our talented Clinicians & Presenters:
Dave Hammaker, Scott Inman and Vic Neves

Thank you All! Without you, this meet would not have been possible.

Link to photo albums here:
http://www.bayareaprototypemodelers.net
http://www.pbase.com/atsf_arizona/bapm2010&page=all
http://www.pbase.com/tracktime/bapm2010&page=all

Don't miss BAPM NEXT YEAR.. Same Place, June 2011.. More details to come.

Catch us on the web and now on Facebook too. Bookmark us!
http://www.bayareaprototypemodelers.net



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 06/27/10 13:26 by tracktime.

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Good stuff there - Those Brazilian models are really, really cool.

Hi,

Yes, here is a picture of the back side of the incredible little 36" round layout.

You can also see a ton more pictures of this little layout in Harry Wong's photo album:

http://www.pbase.com/tracktime/bapm2010&page=all

:-)

John Sing
Modeling the Santa Fe's Peavine Line
(Ash Fork - Phoenix, Ariz) in the 50s and 60s
http://home.comcast.net/~j.sing

NMRA PCR Coast Division Model Contest chair-flunkie and webmaster-dude:
http://www.pcrnmra.org/coast/contest.shtml



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atsf_arizona Wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Yes, here is a picture of the back side of the
> incredible little 36" round layout.
>
> You can also see a ton more pictures of this
> little layout in Harry Wong's photo album:
>
> http://www.pbase.com/tracktime/bapm2010&page=all
>
> :-)
>
> John Sing
> Modeling the Santa Fe's Peavine Line
> (Ash Fork - Phoenix, Ariz) in the 50s and 60s
> http://home.comcast.net/~j.sing
>
> NMRA PCR Coast Division Model Contest
> chair-flunkie and webmaster-dude:
> http://www.pcrnmra.org/coast/contest.shtml

I sure wish Art Curran was alive to see this layout. This is the kind of stuff he lived for!

Did anyone get a video of it running? If you did could you please post it?

It reminds me so much of the businesses on East Marginal Way here in Seattle. -- Keith Thompson

locotrol Wrote:
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> Did anyone get a video of it running? If you did
> could you please post it?


There was video taken but not sure if they were by TO members.


> It reminds me so much of the businesses on East
> Marginal Way here in Seattle.


I dunno Keith, from this angle it sure reminds me of the Millennium Falcon or a piece of the Death Star! (a running joke at BAPM... "Stay on target!")