Friday night at Keith's 11-26-10 (Article by Rick)

Full of turkey and all the Thanksgiving trimmings the crew was at Concrete Keith's home for our Friday night work session. Present were: Coalfinger Ken, Glue Bob, Packrat Paul, Popsicle Rick, along with guests Collin and John. We started the evening with a tour of the progress that Keith has made and it was impressive. He's done everything from fascia to his "car by wire" system with a bunch in the middle. He has designed a couple of impressive devices for his car system including a mini turntable to allow cards to go in one of two directions, and a moving magnet that will stop the cars.

It looks like Paul is getting ready to applaude his work when actually he's explaining the foam work to be done while John holds the glue gun and Ken gets some supports in place.

Keith was having a blast going around checking out the progress and running tools & supplies to the guys. Collin and Ken await instructions.

Bob & Paul stake out the cookies and chips to make sure that nobody runs off with them.

When we first got started Collin went around the layout pushing buttons just to see what happens.

Tools of the trade. Sculpting foam is fun, but it sure is messy!

Ken, I said "smile" for the camera!


Bob fitted foam while Collin (out of the picture) did the cutting. Bob would call out the numbers and Collin would cut. It was a good system and they moved along quickly.

After yours truely (Rick) painted the top of the Chicago downtown area Keith painted the back part. This was because I wouldn't fit in that spot!

Bob & Collin "foaming"

After I painted the Chicago downtown area I spent the balance of the evening applying plaster cloth on the sculpted foam areas. I almost made it to the bridge (where Bob & Collin were working) and then needed to leave. I turned over my plaster duties to Colling to complete.

The guys got alot of work done and had a great time in the process!