HOn3 Annual 2010 How to guide for HO Narrow Gauge Railroading Soft Cover

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Thanks for joining us for the second edition of the HOn3 Annual. We are pleased with how well it was received by the H0n3 community, and we look forward to bringing you many more in the coming years. H0n3 is an exciting and growing scale/gauge combo! If you doubt it, look at the ads in this issue, spend a little time on the internet or attend the National Narrow Gauge Convention. In the last few years, it has gone from healthy to positively robust, and the HOn3 Annual and Carstens is thrilled to be a part of it.

I mentioned in last year's Annual that I have been an active narrow gauge modeler for over thirty-five years, and one thing that has always impressed me about the 110n3 modelers is that they are "doers". They don't sit around waiting for someone to offer their favorite car as a kit or R-T-R, they just build it. The same is true for their layouts. They don't idly plan the "dream" layout for years and years, they just get busy and build one, or join a modular group to hone their techniques and enjoy the camaraderie of their fellow narrow gaugers. They also seem to be the least likely modeling group to engage in "hero worship." Certainly there is nothing wrong with admiring and being inspired by other modelers, hut at some point you have to just go off and build something, and the H0n3 bunch excels at that.

Here is where the HOn3 Annual comes in. We are "preachers" (and only about 1000 of our readers will get that reference) in that it is our job to extol the virtues of H0n3 modeling and fill the book with lots of pretty pictures to inspire you. But we are also teachers. We reject the notion we see in many hobby and broader audience publications of presenting an author's work as "Here is a nifty thing I built" (or bought) and a photo or two. Rather, we view it as our job to present models, layouts and projects that you'll enjoy AND show you how they were done, both in photos, text andlllllll video. Our authors are not just skilled modelers, but also enthusiastic about showing the how and why of their modeling.

We believe our readers to be the sort of modeler interested in the nut-n-bolts of how things work and open to learning tips and techniques from fellow narrow gaugers. The Annual is geared toward providing exactly that kind of in-depth information, and in this issue we are pleased to present a lantern-waving HO brakeman, a brass Mason Bogie rebuild, scratchbuilding East Broad Top structures, the complete D&RGW San Juan passenger train from kits, and several rolling stock projects including CONX No. 8, scratchbuilding wood gondolas and an award-winning passsenger car patterned after the famous Silver Vista. We've also included plans for a stock pen complex and CONX No. 8 along with a 3' by 61/2' Vance Jct. layout, Burton and Patricia Maxwell's Westside Lumber logging layout, an eastern coal mining railroad module, a super-detailed logging diorama, and finally, our cover story; Colorado modules built in Switzerland.

Contents:

Blackstone caboose project

My narrow gauge circle

DSP&P Mason bogie

Aladdin stock exchange

Modeling structures on the EBT

Improving Blackstone flatcars

From Gato to Las Mesitas

Fun of scratchbuilding Railroad cars

CONX #8 from UTLX tankcar

My midlife crisis diorama

C&S SUF boxcar kitbash

Developing Hall Hollow

P&DR Vista Verde Coach

Narrow gauge log cars eastern style

Scratchbuild a D&RGW Gondola

Ticket on the San Juan

My brief history of Hon3 cabooses

Building RGS Drag flanger 02

Tour of the West Side Lumber Co

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