 For this what's neat this week? I thought I would try to simulate snow on an HO scale scene So I'll still film the scene outside on a gray day when there's no snow falling and then I'll drop the snow in with the computer So let's see how that turns out. I'll show you Okay, so computers simulated snow can look pretty convincing on a model Time and time again, Joe's asked me Ken. What are you working on? Can you can you do something on what some of the projects are that you've got going on besides? Catalog work and doing what's neat this week features every month Well, I had a Skype interview with him just the other day and he asked me just that question So with that I'll let you watch that interview I'm working on a bunch of things where I could cover I just had my hundred and tenth cover with a Bachman Williams. It's a O scale three rail cover I've got some a little video of that. I can show you that cover I'm working on an Amtrak consist using some of the Walther's E8 that they came out with with the pointless arrows on them doing a 1973 74 consist I've got some still pictures of that. I don't have any video that I could put into something Videos or something. What's that? Yeah, we've been getting a lot of snow here So I go out in a garden railroad and plow snow every once in a while I spent a few hours doing that so I might have some good video footage of that to add to a what's neat this week video These are Broadway limited L1 locomotives. That's something else that I've got this pretty neat I picked up a few of those too long tender too short tender deco pods from Broadway limited and the sound systems Neat and the smoke is impressive. I made a little test video of them smoking So that's something else I could put in a video for you You know Bluford has come out with this n scale caboose if you can see this it's it looks like something you could wear around your neck It's so finite in detail. I took some still pictures of that and I did a video run by with that There's this bus also that bill got she from classic metal works has come out with It's worth noting. This is a pretty neat model I think it'd be really neat to put some motors in this get it powered steering and have this thing run in somewhere Remote control. So is that a joke? Yeah, this is an HSL model. You know, I'm working on videos Joe I'm making my own videos. They're available at Ken Patterson comm. It's a website where I'm selling Download videos on how to make cornfields. I've also got a DVD for sale on weathering the Bachman EM1 steam locomotive It's really a DVD on how to model whether any steam locomotive in six easy steps very comprehensive some really beautiful run-bys This is this is the best. This is the high quality that I'm trying to make the videos come out to be I think we'd love to see a little bit more about that can that sounds very interesting So yeah with those eight things I think maybe possibly I could put together a video montage and do a few still photos and have something to talk about that I've been working on for the last nine months or so in between that and doing all these videos for you I'm doing a video and what's neat this week column every month. It's keeping me pretty busy I'm meeting a lot of neat people and you know, it's just great. It's fun doing Well, great. Yeah, I think our readers really enjoy seeing the things that you're bringing out and what's neat this week column You know seeing the other modelers seeing some of the sort of what I'd like to think of as the reporter at large Sort of stories that you're doing. I think it's great. Okay Well, you know, I uh, I enjoyed doing it. Did I mention this inner mountain locomotive? Set up a set of these I got some in UP and BNSF that I purchased recently. These things are sweet They've got nice sound in them. I did some videography of these things running real prototype looking outdoor videography with those locomotives I'll stick that in a what's neat this week thing too All right, Joe, well, thanks, I'll put it together and make something nice for you Okay So I'll do a what's neat this week on some of the projects that I've been working on One thing I've been trying really hard in the last four months is to take my still model railroad photography and bring it to life And video so all the pictures that you're used to seeing from track side now can come alive and actually move So for this what's neat this week feature I want to exhibit the models that I've been able to work with and enjoy on video as if you're watching them go By track side You