Posted By cjwalas on 02/23/2008 7:02 PM
As someone without a whimsical bone in his body, I have no interest whatsoever in this AWNUTS Again site...no matter how long I've been a member there.

Personally, I'm with Fritz / Juergen  when he says that some humor would surely do the largescale hobby some good. So let's see some silly train stuff!
Chris

Posted By Fritz on 02/24/2008 7:31 AM
I sometimes use the name "Fritz" in American forums, because it is a typical German name. Nobody would suspect me to be from France, Italy or  Scotland  with such a name. And of course the last name is "Kraut" and I live in Krautzenburg, spending my time behind a huge beermug, dancing the Polka all of the time, wearing Lederhosens, while eating lot´s of  Bratwurst. 

---

Pictures please!

Mark

Posted By sheepdog on 02/23/2008 8:16 AM
Whimiscal? Nope, it is not for me........

Posted By vsmith on 02/24/2008 6:35 PM
 . . . no matter what I just cannot take model railroading too serously, its a fun thing to do, first and foremost. When it ceases to be fun and becomes work, that for me is when its time to pack it in and go fishing.
Thats why I left HO, or at least was a long time Lone Wolfer, way too many people taking things waaaaaay to seriously. 
I forgot that recently and cracked a offcolor joke online about a well known guru  . . . I later apologized online, but it still got me shunned buy members of that sect of the hobby . . . so thank the gods for large scale where most of us have a slightly different and irreverent take on the hobby of model trains.

Hi gang,

I just spoke with the new webmaster and the reich comment is no more. He didn't even know it was there, having simply cut and pasted the intro from the old source. Says he's learned a lesson to read things before posting them. 

But I think we can cut him some slack...he leads a busy life. Besides that, he manages several web sites that promote our hobby, and he doesn't charge anybody a nickle as far as I can tell. He carries the large scale banner at model train shows too, and gives helpful clinics.

Cheers...pete

ps: Fwiw he is a  total rivet counter when it comes to his own models, but never criticizes those (like me) who make it all up. To me, that's a good attitude. Wish I could do the same in reverse






Posted By Fritz on 02/22/2008 1:11 PM
Hi,

I am not too Happy with their "Forth Reich" in the title story .  I do not not which one was the first or second Reich. Heard horrible things about the Third Reich,  Home of the Nazies. Do not really trust in any Reichs, whatever the number might be. That´s not my tradition.

AW Nuts was a great and funny railroad magazine, which started in the early Nineties. I occasionally contributed a story or two from Kraehwinkle to its pages myself- . Still miss the Balducci Brothers. Got aquainted to some fine and strange people over there.   Who´s work I still admire. Peter Barnfield, Peter Jones, Chris Walas,  B. Bates, Graham Stowell etc. 

So I´ll keep an eye on it and see, how it develops. I bit of light vein and some humor surely would  do the largescale hobby good. 

Have Fun

Fritz / Juergen Zirner



 

 

Posted By dana on 02/26/2008 11:45 PM
what are they talking about a heptagon and anti bot ? thats the stumbleing block for me to register in . shame cuse i have great ideas and great prototype photos that could help others but no im blocked out cuase of this .