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We are offering sets of our Taskboard bench, love seat and chair kits for free. They are made from the drop-outs of our shadowbox models and are usually reserved for the $1.00 tip (breakfast and beer fund) jar at York that so many have  generously supported. All you need is an Exact knife, Tacky glue and some latex paint. 

 

If interested, please email me your mailing address to toddmodel@mac.com. You will receive of each as shown plus a random business card with a simalar kit.

 

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I have always admired the Todd Architectural Model kits.  When Doug made his generous offer, I quickly responded...The package arrived 2 days ago and this morning I was finally able to open it.  I quickly assembled one of each, Love Seat and Chair.   

I am very impressed with the appearance and fit of both items.  Gives me great confidence that all his products are extremely high quality.    5 star rating!

Doug, Thank you for your generosity!!

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Trimmed and Primed:

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Thanks you to all that played along with this offer. The 50th kit has been packaged and we'll end it here. We did not get close to the Mendoza line of batting .200 (50 kits/460 = .108), but we stayed out of the Squares Club, that unceremonious group at Lehigh when, if you squared your cumulative average, it got smaller.

Again, these kits were made from scrap 1/16" Taskboard. I'm looking for the next little project to help reduce the contribution to a landfill. Let me know if you have any suggestions! For starters, it should fit onto our business card.

Again, these kits were made from scrap 1/16" Taskboard. I'm looking for the next little project to help reduce the contribution to a landfill. Let me know if you have any suggestions! For starters, it should fit onto our business card.

Doug;

How about some common signs you see at stations or along the right-of-way like “Track 1”, “Track 2”, “To Trains”, the railroad crossing X, “Yard Limit”, etc.??? Maybe some small mile markers or “W” whistle signs on small posts that could be stuck into the layout???

Got my set Monday. Thank you Doug.

Some comments and a question:

Usually when someone is making a 'free' offer we have to pick up shipping and handling.  Not so with Doug!!!  The postage was $1 not including the padded mailer he sent it in.  That's a nice gesture to just eat the cost.

I liked that the enclosed note with directions was 'personalized'.  He didn't have to do that but took the time to do it.

When I examined the pieces I noticed that see thru parts were already removed.  For example, the back of the seat already had the gaps between supports removed.  Nice touch!

QUESTION: he suggests using something called "Tacky glue".  that fact that he capitalized it to me means it's a name-brand of sorts.   For instance, one would not say "Use White glue", right?  So, what is 'Tacky glue'?????

thanks  = walt

Walt- Elmer's white glue will work, too. We use Aleene's Tacky Glue for gluing up all of the Taskboard shadowboxes. It has initial "tackiness" which helps hold parts together- basically anytime you need three or four hands and have only two. Check out your local art supply box or fabric store. We use a basic Testor's nylon hobby brush to apply the glue. Just keep a cup of water handy to drop the brush in to prevent the glue from setting up. Rinse the vinyl brush off in warm water when you are done for next time.

And nothing is quite free. I am looking to expand our emailing list during this no train shows time and ahead of a new product release announcement. 

My angle was BSCE to wind up working for a railroad. I had a summer internship lined up with MoPac and then something we now call Fallen Flags happened and I missed that chance. After graduating I got a job with Edwards & Kelcey in their mass transit and railroads division. I worked on the NEC Realignment, the Washington Metro, SIRTOA platform extensions, the MTA's Linden Yard, and the New York & Long Branch Electrification.

Received my furniture in the mail today. Thank you Doug. These little details are what make a layout come alive. A suggestion for future items, you might consider some business signs like General Store or Saloon or Keep Out. 

I also remember the drop off in headcount in Engineering classes. Freshman classes were SRO. By the start of Junior year you saw the same faces class after class. One of our friends was a History major. We called him “dusty books". 

John

John- My venture into making the shadowboxes came from working out what I could do with the scrap .030" cel cast acrylic plastic that we use for architectural models. Our stash of leftover pieces was probably purchased for between $8 an $12 per square foot. The pieces were too small to use for architectural models but I really dislike not getting full use of material, even if someone already paid for it. The first round of small shadowboxes was a hit and we ran out of the .030" acrylic, plus our two layered windows would often be thicker than the Taskboard that were set in. I tried to sell the Taskboard drop-outs as G Scale tombstones at my first 6 Yorks.  I always came home with the same number of bags that I left with. The bulb brightened a little and we pulled a bench kit that we made for our 1/2" = 1'-0" scale floor plan layout models and scaled it down to 1/4" = 1'-0".   Fast forward- if I only knew how many chair and bench kits I could have given away if we had put them in the first 20 runs of the UP Trackside Warehouse drop-outs, I would be......

But seriously, I have enjoyed this process as I have met at least 60 people that I did not know before two weeks ago. I'm already working on another few pieces that can be added into other Taskboard drop-outs. And we all know nothing is really free. We will have some exciting news in the coming months and I will want to get the word out. Those on our email list will be the first to hear it.

Thanks you to all that played along with this offer. The 50th kit has been packaged and we'll end it here. We did not get close to the Mendoza line of batting .200 (50 kits/460 = .108), but we stayed out of the Squares Club, that unceremonious group at Lehigh when, if you squared your cumulative average, it got smaller.

Again, these kits were made from scrap 1/16" Taskboard. I'm looking for the next little project to help reduce the contribution to a landfill. Let me know if you have any suggestions! For starters, it should fit onto our business card.

How about those ubiquitous wooden pallets used in warehouses - you know, where forklifts use them to stack and load merchandise, etc. Would be perfect for your scraps, and could easily fit business card size.

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How about those ubiquitous wooden pallets used in warehouses - you know, where forklifts use them to stack and load merchandise, etc. Would be perfect for your scraps, and could easily fit business card size.

Great idea! 

Edit: I did a little research and Rail Scale Models has a great pallet kit that was originally produced by Rusty Stumps. Please consider supporting their products and I will continue to looking other items that may be missing from the market.

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