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Section: Modeling
How-to Library: Airbrushing with Aaron – Episode 6, Filling in the gaps
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this episode of Airbrushing with Aaron, FineScale Modeler senior editor Aaron Skinner fills you in on tips and techniques you can use to fix minor flaws and gaps in a model’s surface, before applying paint. […]
How-to Library: Airbrushing with Aaron – Episode 6, Filling in the gaps
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this episode of Airbrushing with Aaron, FineScale Modeler senior editor Aaron Skinner fills you in on tips and techniques you can use to fix minor flaws and gaps in a model’s surface, before applying paint. […]
Easy easements for model train track
Laying tangent (straight) track is pretty straightforward but those curves can, well, throw you a curve. Equipment that enters a sudden curve is more likely to derail. And even if wheels stay on the rails the sight of a train jolting into a sudden curve can make even the most realistic layout look like a […]
Computer desktop wallpaper from the July 2017 Model Railroader
Click on the links at left to download this image sized appropriately for your computer screen. A wood-burning Shay passes a coal loader on the large scale narrow gauge layout built by the Sundance Central club in Florida. Model Railroader contributing editor Lou Sassi took the photo. Click on the links below to download the […]
Train watching on the Winnegance & Quebec
Name: Eric Schade Railroad Name: Winnegance and Quebec Location: Phippsburg, Maine Scale: 7/8″=1′-0″ (1:13.7) Theme: Maine two foot gauge railroading in the teens Description: This is a compilation of several live steam runs on two beautiful spring evenings. The leaves are just poking out and so are the black flies. The trains are pulled by […]
Modeler’s Spotlight Video — Inside Cody’s Office for May 2017
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Hear the rumble of a new HO scale GP10 diesel and learn how to spruce up your model railroad scenery with Woodland Scenics Dust Dabber in this episode of Cody’s Office. In addition, Model Railroader associate editor Cody Grivno shows you a selection […]
Modeler’s Spotlight Video — Inside Cody’s Office for May 2017
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Hear the rumble of a new HO scale GP10 diesel and learn how to spruce up your model railroad scenery with Woodland Scenics Dust Dabber in this episode of Cody’s Office. In addition, Model Railroader associate editor Cody Grivno shows you a selection […]
Big Boy 4014 at Colorado Model Railroad Museum’s Union Pacific Days 2017
The Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 is featured in a video shot at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum’s 2017 Union Pacific Days. The model is from the collection of museum volunteer Joel Naegele. […]
Olympia 2, The Log Blog: Part 5 – Wide open spaces
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page David is back to the basement for more work on the Olympia Logging Co. On30 layout. In this blog entry, he first joins the two layout sections, and then makes changes to the hardboard fascia and styrene backdrop, giving the display an amazing […]
Olympia 2, The Log Blog: Part 5 – Wide open spaces
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page David is back to the basement for more work on the Olympia Logging Co. On30 layout. In this blog entry, he first joins the two layout sections, and then makes changes to the hardboard fascia and styrene backdrop, giving the display an amazing […]
Canadian Canyons Series: Part 11 – Laying track on the helix
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page With the helix of our N scale Canadian Canyons project layout spirals upward, David Popp now shows how to install the cork roadbed and flextrack as he works along the incline. […]
