Frank Varga's guest appearances

Frank Varga

Wiley's Bench Time - Model Railroading Podcast

Jake Johnson

Ken Anderson

Kathy Millatt

Joey Ricard

David Yale

Lance Mindheim

Ron Klaiss

Hal Reynolds

Jill Bollinger

Doug Foscale

Jimmy Deignan

Jason Jensen

Dan Raymond

Stephen Milley

Brian Wolfe

OwlTail

Dave Kruiswyk

Well, last week was the official weathering podcast and we decided this is an awesome way to theme our weekly shows, so this week is the official sign episode! There were a blockbuster number of guests on the show this week including Dave Kruiswyk, Frank Varga, Jason Jensen, Jake Johnson &amp; Doug Foscale. Well, and of course yours truly Brett &amp; Todd Wiley. We covered everything from font usage, different styles of signs, era of signage, weathering signs, and applying signs to buildings. Discussed were rooftop signs, wall signs, painted signs, window signs and so much more! We hope you take some good signage tips from this one. Some of the Facebook Groups &amp; Pages that we talked about that you need to check out if you aren't already members of them are:  Model Railroad Structures &amp; Scenery - This is where you can find Frank's sweet sign we all talked about! Model Railroad Signs, Graphics &amp; Designs - This is the sign group that Jake talked about in the closing. Dave's Workbench Jason Jensen Trains

Well, last week was the official weathering podcast and we decided this is an awesome way to theme our weekly shows, so this week is the official sign episode! There were a blockbuster number of guests on the show this week including Dave Kruiswyk, Frank Varga, Jason Jensen, Jake Johnson &amp; Doug Foscale. Well, and of course yours truly Brett &amp; Todd Wiley. We covered everything from font usage, different styles of signs, era of signage, weathering signs, and applying signs to buildings. Discussed were rooftop signs, wall signs, painted signs, window signs and so much more! We hope you take some good signage tips from this one. Some of the Facebook Groups &amp; Pages that we talked about that you need to check out if you aren't already members of them are:  <ul><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=502844843210535&amp;ref=br_rs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Model Railroad Structures &amp; Scenery</a> - This is where you can find Frank's sweet sign we all talked about!</li> <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=2701762239934091&amp;ref=br_rs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Model Railroad Signs, Graphics &amp; Designs</a> - This is the sign group that Jake talked about in the closing.</li> <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1793141297396023&amp;ref=br_rs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dave's Workbench</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=578521205680286&amp;ref=br_rs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jason Jensen Trains</a></li></ul>

Bench Time #124: The Sign Episode w/ Dave Kruiswyk, Frank Varga, Jason Jensen, Jake Johnson & Doug Foscale

What a great time we had on this week’s podcast with Doug Foscale and Frank Varga, getting them on the show to just talk about how each of them builds and how their creative minds work to make what they do, was just amazing &amp; fun. The best part of this interview was getting the creative mind of Doug Foscale, who spends an amazing amount of time and effort to create his unique craftsman kits to talk shop with Frank Varga who has the eye of an artistic kit-bashing genius who often end up kit-bashing FOS kits for many of his builds! We let them talk back-and-forth about their work and what each of them finds interesting in each other’s building and modeling process.  A little later on through the podcast interview we brought up the decades which each of us model and why. Frank &amp; Doug discuss modeling in the time-period they grew up in and remember the most while we explain how our love of history brought us to model the late 1930’s. Check out the HO Scale TV Antennas that Doug has: https://fosscalemodels.com/products/set-of-tv-antennas-lasercut-details-ho-scale ALSO if you aren’t in Frank’s Facebook Group, you should check out some of the work going on in there from some flat-out great modelers! https://www.facebook.com/groups/502844843210535/ These are two stellar modelers among a sea of ever improving modelers in our hobby and we were very happy to have had them on for this week’s episode. Here’s the blog posts from FOS on information on the Concrete Highway Piers and the Maspeth Creek  LAST WEEK’S CONTEST WINNER: SCOTT PERRY THIS WEEK’S CONTEST:  The best painted small detail part that’s smaller than a dime. Send us a photo of your best painted detail parts the size of or smaller than a dime (posted on our Facebook or emailed to podcast@hoscalecustoms.com) with either the date or HO Scale Customs on a small piece of paper to be entered.  Submit it before 11:59:59pm on 3/20/2019 and winners will be selected next Thursday night (3/21/2019).

What a great time we had on this week’s podcast with Doug Foscale and Frank Varga, getting them on the show to just talk about how each of them builds and how their creative minds work to make what they do, was just amazing &amp; fun. The best part of this interview was getting the creative mind of Doug Foscale, who spends an amazing amount of time and effort to create his unique craftsman kits to talk shop with Frank Varga who has the eye of an artistic kit-bashing genius who often end up kit-bashing FOS kits for many of his builds! We let them talk back-and-forth about their work and what each of them finds interesting in each other’s building and modeling process. A little later on through the podcast interview we brought up the decades which each of us model and why. Frank &amp; Doug discuss modeling in the time-period they grew up in and remember the most while we explain how our love of history brought us to model the late 1930’s. Check out the <a href="https://fosscalemodels.com/products/set-of-tv-antennas-lasercut-details-ho-scale" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HO Scale TV Antennas</a> that Doug has: <a href="https://fosscalemodels.com/products/set-of-tv-antennas-lasercut-details-ho-scale" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://fosscalemodels.com/products/set-of-tv-antennas-lasercut-details-ho-scale</a> ALSO if you aren’t in Frank’s Facebook Group, you should check out some of the work going on in there from some flat-out great modelers! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/502844843210535/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/502844843210535/</a> These are two stellar modelers among a sea of ever improving modelers in our hobby and we were very happy to have had them on for this week’s episode. Here’s the blog posts from FOS on information on the <a href="http://fosscalemodels.blogspot.com/2019/03/concrete-highway-piers.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Concrete Highway Piers</a> and the <a href="http://fosscalemodels.blogspot.com/2019/02/maspeth-creek-in-ho-scale.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Maspeth Creek</a> LAST WEEK’S CONTEST WINNER: SCOTT PERRY THIS WEEK’S CONTEST: The best painted small detail part that’s smaller than a dime. Send us a photo of your best painted detail parts the size of or smaller than a dime (posted on<a href="https://facebook.com/hoscalecustoms" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> our Facebook</a> or emailed to <a href="mailto:podcast@hoscalecustoms.com">podcast@hoscalecustoms.com</a>) with either the date or HO Scale Customs on a small piece of paper to be entered. Submit it before 11:59:59pm on 3/20/2019 and winners will be selected next Thursday night (3/21/2019).

Bench Time #64: Frank Varga &amp; Doug Foscale - Shop Talk with Model Building &amp; Kitbashing

Support us on Patreon! On this special extra episode #30 of the Bench Time Podcast our guest is super size, large structure, urban scenery fine scale artist Frank Varga.  His structures are a marvel of extreme detail, and his city scenes on his layout are jam-packed with everything your mind and eyes can think of.  On his tall ho-scale buildings that borderline skyscrapers in scale, there is no details spared.  We’re not just talking about on the roof or on the ground level, but from top to bottom, the walls come to life, his streets and alleys you can almost hear the sounds, feel the textures. Join us as we discuss with him how he adds the kaleidoscope of detail and creativity to his art.  Listen as he explains how he views a scene as he recreates it from his eye.  Plus we share some of our modeling techniques, how to use some very simple everyday materials to achieve great results, and you will feel the passion he has for his work.  This podcast is a Cornucopia of inspiring ideas, and we had a lot of fun, as usual trading views on the finer points of modeling.  Modelers talking with modelers about modeling! You can find many of Frank’s builds on the Facebook Group: Model Railroading Structures and Scenery so make sure to go there and join the group and check out his and many other outstanding modelers work!

Support us on <a href="https://patreon.com/hoscalecustoms/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon!</a> On this special extra episode #30 of the Bench Time Podcast our guest is super size, large structure, urban scenery fine scale artist Frank Varga. His structures are a marvel of extreme detail, and his city scenes on his layout are jam-packed with everything your mind and eyes can think of. On his tall ho-scale buildings that borderline skyscrapers in scale, there is no details spared. We’re not just talking about on the roof or on the ground level, but from top to bottom, the walls come to life, his streets and alleys you can almost hear the sounds, feel the textures. Join us as we discuss with him how he adds the kaleidoscope of detail and creativity to his art. Listen as he explains how he views a scene as he recreates it from his eye. Plus we share some of our modeling techniques, how to use some very simple everyday materials to achieve great results, and you will feel the passion he has for his work. This podcast is a Cornucopia of inspiring ideas, and we had a lot of fun, as usual trading views on the finer points of modeling. Modelers talking with modelers about modeling! You can find many of Frank’s builds on the Facebook Group: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/502844843210535/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Model Railroading Structures and Scenery</a> so make sure to go there and join the group and check out his and many other outstanding modelers work!