Bob Brendle's interest in model railroading began as with many of us, at a very young age with an O-Gauge layout his father built slong with the association with several of his father's friends, who were all Fort Worth modelers, Harold "HD" Conner, Skeeter Blacklock, Lat Lattimore, CB Baird, and Bob Jones. Bob won his first model competition blue ribbon at 16, for a Complete Maintenance of Way Train, at the 1963 LSR Convention in Ft. Worth. Bob emphasizes this because he considers the importance of the model contest and the encouragement that it gave him as a young modeler. Contests cemented his life-long interest in the hobby. After graduating from the University of Texas, Bob began to pick up the hobby again in HO gauge. About this time, the late 70's, an abundance of HOn3 rolling stock and locomotives were coming on the market, making it easier and accessible to model in that gauge, so his modeling has been in HOn3 since then.
Bob's profession is architecture which led him to an extremely rare opportunity of combining his hobby and profession, when, as the lead design architect for the interiors at Dallas Children's Medical Center, he was able to engage a friend and fellow HOn3 modeler, Malcolm Furlow, to design and build the Trains for Children Layout at the center. The G gauge layout was featured in the Feb '92 issue of Model Railroader. A misguided effort a couple of years ago, to replace the layout with a Starbucks, was quashed by support from a petition with over 92,000 signatures.
Several articles of Bob's that have been published in RMC and the Narrow Gauge Annual, have become the basis for clinics that he has presented at LSR Conventions and at the National Narrow-Gauge Convention.
CLINIC - Building a Structure - Wood vs Styrene
Bob Brendle and Duane Richardson together will present this clinic.
Bob and Duane both share a love for scratchbuilding. Bob being an architect by trade has built many models for both model railroad and professional purposes where he built models in styrene. Duane, on the other hand believes that nothing looks more like wood than wood. In this clinic, Bob and Duane will show you process for building a structure in both wood and styrene, talk about the differences as well as many tips and tricks to finish the model. Learn how to make your styrene look like wood, how fast you can assemble a model for either wood or styrene, weathering both as much more. Live demo’s will be done for most of the steps involved while we walk you through building a model.
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