Clever Gorre Engine House & Radio Shop Mods

**ridetheory** · #1 07-26-2015, 11:12 AM

I'm building the Clever Models version of John Allen's engine house at Gorre.

Miniature Architecture Blog: Gorre Engine House in N Scale, Part II

I'm also modifying their Rudy's Printing into "Don's Radio Shop" in tribute to my recently departed friend, KPFA DJ Don Joyce. Added a ghost sign and modified one of the signs in front of the store.

Miniature Architecture Blog: Goodbye to a friend...

More on Don here. Those of us who love radio as an art form will really miss him.

Don Joyce, Negativland Sound Collagist and Radio DJ, Dead at 71 | Rolling Stone

**Kevin WS** · #2 07-26-2015, 11:27 AM

Thanks for the heads up on your new posts.

I always enjoy your blog! Found the "glue loops" his time around. Going to try and make something similar......!

**Don Boose** · #3 07-26-2015, 12:54 PM

Wonderful stuff, speaking as one who worked the Andrews Branch on the Gorre & Daphetid 1971-72 (and watched Emma the Organic Engine at work) and who remembers vividly Bendix, Crosley, and the 1950s Pepsi commercials ("Pepsi-Cola hits the spot / Twelve full ounces, that's a lot / Twice as much for your nickel, too! / Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you!").

More! More!

Don

**ridetheory** · #4 07-26-2015, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Don Boose

More! More!

Don

I'm workin' on it! A fella's gotta sleep sometimes!

I have a bunch of models in the pipeline, because I'm getting ready to exhibit at the PDX Mini MakerFaire in September, and I always like to have new items when I go there. Usually I complete one or two very complex models in N scale, then I prep a whole bunch of simple village buildings in N, which I assemble while I'm there.

**ridetheory** · #5 07-26-2015, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevin WS

Thanks for the heads up on your new posts.

I always enjoy your blog! Found the "glue loops" his time around. Going to try and make something similar......!

Oh man, just BUY some! I thought I wouldn't use them much, but for doing the windows on this engine house, they've been fantastic.

They come in three sizes in a pack of 9, so I sent three to a very, very fussy, old-school HO-train-builder pal, and even he thought they were great.

**otherDoc** · #6 07-27-2015, 06:28 AM

Sorry for mi ignorance but what is a "glue loop"?
otherDoc

**ridetheory** · #7 07-27-2015, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by otherDoc

Sorry for mi ignorance but what is a "glue loop"?
otherDoc

The "Glue Looper" is an etched metal doo-dad that fits in an X-Acto handle, has a loop-shaped hole on the business end, and which allows you to apply tiny amounts of cyanoacrylate glue or low-viscosity model cement by capillary action.

A lot of modelers use a loop made out of thin wire, and I've done that too, with mixed results. The Glue Looper is the fancier version of that trick, and it works quite a lot better.

THE GLUE LOOPER Micro-Glue Applicator

**Kevin WS** · #8 07-27-2015, 11:16 AM

I just can't afford them from here with the poor exchange rate and high cost of postage.....

If I lived in the States another story........!

**otherDoc** · #9 07-27-2015, 02:43 PM

That is what I use. Seems to work OK. I use the eye side.
otherDoc

**whulsey** · #10 08-03-2015, 12:27 PM

Didn't know he had passed. Always tried to listen to his show when I was in the Bay Area. Was just listening to some Negativland a few days ago.