2024 Mini Festa Fiesta!
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- The annual Mini Festa Fiesta is an invitation only event where a group of incredibly creative model makers share their mini-layouts, dioramas, and latest creations.This is the 4th year that Gary and Colleen Beatty have hosted the Fiesta and I can't thank them enough for creating such a fun and unique event. New for 2024 is Gary's Caliente Crossing layout, my On18 Bandit Canyon Railway, and much more! Thanks for riding along with me on this Railroad Adventure.
Thanks for watching, amigos!
Dave
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What wonderful and whimsical creativity you all have!!! Precious!!
Looks like y'all had fun! Pretty neat that Bob Gurr of all folks showed up! Seeing all the little detail on these railways really reminds you that you can do a lot with very little space!
You’ve gotten me very interested in small, non prototype, modeling! But that’s 180 degrees from what I liked 30 years ago! Thanks for opening my eyes!
I think my favorite was the vineyard layout. I thought it really captured the romance of a small family-owned vineyard and winery, and the workers cleaning up the spilt wine from the broken bottles was great!
Yes, Sam is a brilliant modeler!
Yes, the spilled bottles 😂😂😂 So real.
Im so happy to be included in this! I had such a great time seeing everyone and showing off my Outpost of the Lost!
I loved it - only wish I had shot more video of it!
@@ThunderMesaStudio Thank you so much!!! I cant wait for next year haha
@@PeachyFennecYours was easily one of my favorites of the event! I kept finding myself wandering back to it and getting lost in the details. If you do another, PLEASE shoot some video and post it, I would love to see your creative process in action! Stellar work!!
It must have been quite a pleasure to have Bob Gurr there - Wow!
Several years ago I was at a media event at California Adventure and he was sitting off to the side at one of the tables set along Buena Vista St with Richard Sherman. I thought at the time, the stories and history those two have to share must be amazing!
Bob is a hoot
This is a great way of bringing people together to show their craftsmanship. Preparations are underway for a Mini-Meet here in the East in January. Looking forward to a great time.
The 2024 Festa Fiesta may be billed as Mini but it is definitely Grande in creativity and talent and scope! Well done to everyone who participated! Thank you.
Just Fabulous Work By All !!!! I think I saw Bob Gurr of Disney fame!!!
You did
True artistry. Thank you.
Thank you for this video!!! I really loved the rocking chair reserved for you! lololol....I think it would be really cool if someone made a minature of you to sit in the chair ~ rocking with a banjo playing in the background. You guys are AWESOME! Love the imagination of everyone!!!!
I liked banjo music before it was cool
What I see in some of the model railroad layouts displayed at this event over the years is what I believe to be an outstanding example of absolutely genius American folk art. If someone watching this show does not see more than one piece that belongs in the Smithsonian alongside other examples of great American folk art, they are not paying attention. What we are witnessing here is going to be remembered as a very significant contribution to the dawn of a new movement and direction that is occurring in model railroading. I feel more than fortunate to be able to witness this event through the lens of Dave's camera.
Dave, the sound you are hearing that you think is detractors is only the sound of an extremely faulty American educational system trying to dodge falling shards of paradigms and glass ceilings being broken. Endeavor to persevere.
Nice small layouts! I liked the glimpse of that Z scale layout. It's the scale I'm mainly modeling in at the moment.
Whole herds of talent in that group! I really loved the Shay. Thanks for taking us along Dave.
Herds!
Wonderful layouts, dioramas, and great workmanship. This was a joy to watch ... many times. I wish I could join you folks with my portable On30 Utacolzona Railroad but I'm on the East side of this great country. So I will just wait until it rolls around again next year to enjoy another round of wonderful Southwest workmanship. Thanks, Dave.
What a great meet up! :D
4:23 - And even the legendary Bob Gurr showed up! That is cool!
It was great to have Bob there
I just love small layouts and I get so much inspiration from watching your videos and the work of you, and, your friends.
There is nothing like a storyteller, and all of you qualify as master storytellers! Every time I look at the Bandit Canyon I think to myself, that one is a real butte... 😮 too bad the Island of the lost didn’t have a single like Pioneer or C.P.Huntington, there are two on the ocean floor off New Jersey and no one knows why or how they got there...
ohhh great idea!!!! Might need to think of one to make for it !!!
Interesting!
Fantastic railroads and amazing modelers! What fun it must have been! Thanks for the show!
11:14 both the McKeen motorcars and that cab forward locomotive look very cool Mike Miller did an impressive job on these locomotives and motor cars
So much detail
Amazing to watch 👍👍
very cool... some very talented folks there...wandering spruce was a favorite..would love to do something like these with a northern new england theme...inspiring!! thank you!
I agree, and there was such a history of narrow guage and logging 😢 in Maine. Shortest might be the Kennebec Central, hauling coal during the week and passengers on weekends. If I remember, there was even an overpass where trains ran on one track and trolleys on the other.
Though it might be fun to model the Bedford and Billerica, it lasted less than a year, but it's equipment was the basis for the Sandy River.
@@richardsweeney197 thank you for that info on those railroads ..Im deffinately going to research those railroads...
Bandit Canyon on the go shots really puts things into perspective. AMAZING seeing all the displays gathered in one place. So cool!
thank you for sharing .really enjoyed it.
I've really admired the folks that can build small layouts like those and stay inside the lines, I always seem to blow them up outside the lines
you can do it...set dimensional boundaries, short rolling stock etc , ive been modeling x 45 yrs plus..always dreamed of class one long main lines empire had one or two.. ..I just now realized how much I love the short line small town bring me back to my roots kinda layout...you can do it...
I could live happily in any one of those layouts!
Thank you for sharing this with us. Small meet ups like this is how the hobby grows. I like the variety of layout and diorama that was there.
4:23 Bob Gurr!!! Very cool
Thanks!!
Terrific video thank you for sharing an awesome group of makers.
What absolutely amazing layouts! I am so bummed that I couldn't make it this year!
Great Job Dave
I enjoyed seeing it a second time. So much talent in one place how amazing would of loved to be there. Thank you for sharing.
GOD BLESS 🚂💖🚂💖🚂💖🚂💖
@ThunderMesaStudio thanks for sharing!👍
Absolutely awesome!
Thank you,Dave. Hope you had a chance to visit with friends, or take in some sights, while you were in CA..
BEAUTIFUL!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
These mini-layouts are fascinating in their creativity. I'm not in a position to build one (strapped for both cash and space), but if I did, I know what it would be - a Jurassic Park layout...
So, in Jurassic Park lore, there are two islands - Isla Nublar, the actual 'park' with all the guest facilities and tours, and then Isla Sorna, Site B, the industrial-scale factory-floor genetics laboratory and hatchery where the dinosaurs were bred. Isla Sorna was, canonically, exploited by a German mining company before WW2, so what if it had a little narrow-gauge railway of the kinda frequently seen in Central/South America. This line, after years of abandonment, could then be put back into service in the 1970s/80s when InGen (International Genetic Technologies) covertly leased the island to use as the facility that would clone and breed the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park.
There's so much fun to be had with such a premise. Workers trains, supply trains, a mix of refurbished interwar stock and newer vehicles, smaller dinosaurs transported in cages loaded onto flat cars. Alternatively, you could apply the idea to Isla Nublar/Jurassic Park itself, an old industrial line now once again in use both to support park operations and to take park guests on a safari tour of a Lost World brought back to life.
It's a scenario I'd love to explore, but can't, so if anyone reading this feels suitably inspired, feel free to make use of the idea! :D
Looking at some of those displays of talent, I kept expecting to hear some Buffett in the background.
I miss Jimmy
@@ThunderMesaStudio yeh, me too
I don't recall what that style is that all you guys model. It's caricature like. I've only seen it on Thunder Mesa😀
I call it "Story Based Modeling"
Awesome!
Wow, did I just see Bob Gurr?
Yup, he did a fly by.
Is that Bob Gurr that pops up at 4:24 and again later?
Are those Mike Miller McKeens (11:13) available for sale?
are all of these made with flex track or a mixture of track ?
Mostly flex track, though some is hand laid.
Does anyone know the size of the mini layout of Mike Massee - mineral coast winery on30?
That's Sam Towler's layout. I believe it's about 2x4'.
@@ThunderMesaStudio Thanks for your quick reply!
Don’t you get tired of the trains just going around and around? Nor being techy here, just an honest question, wouldn’t some operating possibilities be nice?
I address that very question near the end of the video.