ModularWorkShops.com
Here we'll be showing off various modular layouts, modular elements, and a lot of how-to information on designing and building modules of all sorts. We'll also be holding workshops on building modules, and using modules to demonstrate how to build scenes within your own layouts. No schedule for the workshops has been set, but we probably will start to run them on the weekends in the Fall. Specific workshops will be all-day, or two-day affairs, of 4-12 hours (depending on the topic). General "skills" workshops will be held once or twice a month, for about 2 hours, and will teach a general or specific skill of model building. Suggestions are welcome!
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Our Forums:
- DollhouseDiscussions.com
- Dollhouse building, workshops, and miniatures.
- PittsburghHobbyForums.com
- All sorts of hobby areas, concentrating on the Pittsburgh area
- BeadBanter.com
- Bead & Beadwork discussions, concentrating on the Pittsburgh Bead Sceene
- HobbyWire.com
- is our on-line, interactive, and up-to-the-minute information source for the hobby scene, especially in and around Pittsburgh. While we'll bring you the latest news and information from major manufacturers, we'll also be concentrating on the local Hobby Happenings in and around Pittsburgh, as well as the world.
- HobbyPulse.com
- Our planned in-print version of the Hobby Wire, for holiday shopping and events.
- HobbyHappenings.com
- Local goings-on in the hobby world. We'll be concentrating on the Pittsburgh Hobby Scene, but we'll have areas for what's going on in our own home town, as well as places for people to post about their local happenings. It will be an "archive" site, where both upcoming, and photos-from, type information can be posted.
- OurModelTrains.com
- This will be the place for showing off your layouts, talking about your own trains, and own philosophy about model railroading, and all the *fun* stuff about the hobby. There's no right or wrong here, just YOUR trains, and how YOU did it.
PUGDOG Enterprises, Inc. ® and other local shops and groups, are
working to bring a new exciting hobby environment to Pittsburgh.
This includes classic crafts like beading, paper crafts, origami, macrame, wood working, dollhouses, model building, model railroading and more. Too much emphasis has been put on the "new hobbies" like RC Autos, which do not really foster the classic hobby ideals of relaxation, non-competition, team work, and skills building. Sports, and competitions, are not really "hobbies", they are activities.
Coming soon! For now, please visit the PittsburghHobbyForums.com for ideas and things to do with your kids, family, friends or just by yourself.
- Send "news" about hobbies (such as new product releases) to:
- HobbyWire@gmail.com
- Send goings on, updates, club meets, rumors, etc to:
- HobbyPulse@gmail.com or HobbyUpdates@gmail.com
- Send information on new websites for trains (model or real) to:
- RailFans@gmail.com
- Pittsburgh area news about trains and model railroading should be sent to:
- PittsburghTrains@gmail.com
- Pittsburgh area general hobby news and releases can be sent to:
- PittsburghHobbies@gmail.com
- If you have news or informaion about other classic crafts:
- ClassicCrafts@gmail.com
- Want to show off your model train layout:
- OurModelTrains@gmail.com
- Dollhouse and related miniature news or stories to:
- DollhouseWorkshops@gmail.com
We are working on the back end of the site, and once we are done, we'll open up.
02 June 2005
We are working on some ideas for bringing hobby excitement back to Pittsburgh,
and giving a new generation the benefits of having a real hobby.
02 June 2005
We are starting to figure out what we are doing with this site (and a few others).
Keep an eye peeled, and check the other sites listed. HobbyWire.com and PittsburghHobbies.com will be the two main sites.