Is 1970’s through the early 1990’s considered ancient?
If so I got some I will sell you from my mothers journey of following the footsteps of Paul from “Back in the Day”.
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Um… No disrespect, but which Paul? McCartney?
Paul Newman while he was running in the touring car series.
Well…
The boys and I still do rocketry…
When you’re the cameraman, you don’t get many shots of yourself! The latter is one of mine going aloft. This was a rare successful flight for this model…
O.D. and I are church musicians. We have done vocal duets; we have done trombone duets; we have done work with trombone and organ / piano accompaniment. She also plays organ, and we both sing in the choir.
I usually get tapped to do “non-dancing roles” in Y.D.'s dance school, so we share that.
I have posted about living history, which, of late, has been a few commemorative events for U.S. veterans and the Royal Hawaiian military. It’s not a big thing out here!
This above O.S. and I in January at the USS MISSOURI Memorial’s annual living history day. We go in as the Fort Fisher expeditionary corps for this event. Multiple Native Hawaiians served in the US Colored Troops at 2nd Fort Fisher and with the Navy-Marine landing party. O.S. trims his uniform for the USCT, which, in addition to Native Hawaiians, had an assortment of other “non-whites.” He actually blew a couple bugle calls for this one!
Below is yours truly at an event commemorating the foundation of the Hawaiian Guard, the royal forerunner of the current Hawaii National Guard.
Let to Right: 1st Hawaiian / Honolulu Cavalry; Honolulu Fort garrison; event crasher in 1880-s uniform; Honolulu Fire Department (HRHH King Kamehameha III founded both the “modern” military and the fire department).
I SCUBA when I can get away and the weather permits, which, sadly, is a rare combination! I dive solo, and I would rather pay the mortgage than get a camera. No recent pictures!
Like the Triple O, all of these are possible because I never had to throw away my “toys.” Most of this hobby paraphernalia drifted around in boxes as I moved around, waiting to come out when time and place allowed. No way I’d invest in Civil War stuff out here, for instance, any more than I’d hang onto SCUBA gear if I lived in Nebraska.
Eric
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Murphys law
You can hide it for 40 years
You will never need it until the day after it is gone.
You got that right. Unfortunately I can’t move it all. Tools and hardware are a priority, Wood, PVC and Styrene can be bought.
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So what one does when not modeling?
Well, we model.
Set we built for a series of commercials, the first of which just came out below.
Lots of fun to work on what I’d be doing on my off time. The structures all found homes on my layout too.
We had some advanced lighting setups and fun fact, the stage we shot on was where all the model rigging was done for Star Trek Original Series, and Next Gen.
Here is the first spot:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3PPL_tRoJSo?app=desktop
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Patrick, you are the first person who takes his work home with him, that I’ve been jealous of! 
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Awesome modeling! Too bad collectible card games are about the only thing I don’t play! 
Eric
Yeah, I’m rarely the target audience for my work. I do a lot with video game companies too. It’s the same story. But the subject matter is usually fun. I’d rather build castles and spaceships than move couches around for WalMart.
I have dressed quite a few trains under trees though in commercials. They usually go home with me end of the day.
On this I did get several Pola buildings that we didn’t use (in addition to the ones seen here) so that was nice.
I also was able to spend the production money at our local train stores too.
This is handy, probably gets you “premium” status at you local stores!
This is soo cool! I’d love to see how this sort of thing comes together. Behind the scenes of movies, TV, etc has always been extremely interesting to me
Thank you. This was a fun one.
Its a fun job. Film is a great home for those of us with short attention spans and non-traditional pasts.
My department (property) is responsible for all physical visual elements in any given scene, from sets to props. I have to take stunningly asinine requests seriously. I mostly do commercial work, but I try to do at least 2 narrative features or tv series a year.
I’m two decades deep now. Golden handcuffs situation, but my shop is well equipped for model train work (hello 3D print farm) so thats what I do for fun. My other train buddy in the biz is a stunt coordinator (what stuntmen do when they get old), one day we’ll get to jump from roof to roof on a train.
Been at Universal Studios for work last week. Found a fun locomotive on the lot. If I recall this used to charge at the tour trams and stop just in time.
I am about to embark on a planes trains automobile and planes vacation , we are flying to Portland Oregon, where we wil board Amtrak’s Empire Builder for a fun 2 day trip to Chicago. We are passing by Devons home and work place, but he steadfast refuses to come to Spokane and visit while we are there for an hour, something to do with the time being from midnight to 1AM,something about work blah blah beauty sleep blah blah ! Anyway will post some pictures along the way, when I have service.
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Very jealous! Have a blast Pete!!
Pete
Are you getting off at the Isaac Walton Inn whistle stop?
That was our my favourite spot to watch shunting all night long, then cross-country ski during the day.
Like you said it’s a whistle stop , and we bought sleeper car tickets , so straight thru to Chicago , except the 3 longer stops Havre, Montana, Minot N. Dakota and Minneapolis St Paul. Maybe on a future trip.