The HO scale City Edge layout features custom urethane structures created, painted, and weathered by Vic Smith. The streets are poured using a road paving plaster from Woodland Scenics. […]
Cab ride through the streets of the City Edge
Magazine: Model-Railroader
Modeler’s Spotlight Video — Inside Cody’s Office for July 2018
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page New diesel locomotives in N and O scale highlight the new model railroading products featured in this month’s episode of Cody’s Office. Model Railroader associate editor Cody Grivno will also give you tips for modeling a “patched out” diesel locomotive. This month’s viewer […]
Cody’s Workshop: Episode 29 – Weathering with powder
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Don’t have an airbrush? Maybe you don’t need one? Host Cody Grivno shares his techniques for making a cylindrical hopper look good n’ grimy – all without using an airbrush! Follow along as he shares how to work with weathering powders and brushed-on paint […]
Off The Rails: Episode 28
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page This time on Off The Rails, host Gerry Leone has fun with foam! Not the type of foam insulation board typically used in model railroad scenery. Instead, Gerry keeps his focus on open-cell and closed-cell foam commonly used as model railroad product packaging. […]
How-to Library: Operating with PIKO SmartControl
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Dana Kawala, senior editor for Model Railroader magazine, gets his hands on a PIKO SmartControl Basic Set. Watch this video to see how Dana uses the Pro SmartController to program and operate DCC-equipped locomotives on the WSOR section of the MR&T HO scale layout. […]
How-to Library: Installing a Walthers Layout Control System Switch Machine
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Eric White, associate editor for Model Railroader magazine, introduces you to the Walthers Layout Control System switch machine. In this instructional video, Eric reveals all the supplied parts, helpful tools, and the step-by-step installation and programming processes needed to add the switch machine […]
MRVP Insider: July 2018
The summertime fun has officially begun on MR Video Plus! But as Insider host Jenny Maaske explains, MRVP is busy finding ways to keep your hobby interests rolling in the great outdoors … and the comfy indoors too! This month, look for new Log Blogs, MRVP Tech topics, Drew’s Trackside Adventures, exclusive Layout Visits, and […]
Olympia 2, The Log Blog: Part 17 – On a Hot Tin Roof
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page David’s scratchbuilt sawmill needed a roof. So in this episode of his Olympia Logging Co. On30 layout expansion blog, he’ll share how to model a tin roof using corrugated styrene sheet. Watch and learn how to measure, cut, install, paint, and weather the […]
Ask MRVP: Episode 37
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page David is back for a new epsiode of Ask MRVP! This month he addresses your inquires related to trackwork, wiring, layout maintenance, DCC programming, weathering your models, and more. Watch, learn, enjoy, and then post your own question for the next episode! […]
New model trains for the week of July 10, 2018
HO scale freight cars 50-foot single-sheathed boxcars. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (single steel doors and Dreadnaught ends); Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (double steel doors and auto door end); Missouri Pacific (double wood doors and auto door end); Northern Pacific (double steel doors and auto door end); and Texas & Pacific (double steel doors and […]
Canadian Canyons Series: Kamloops Lake Water, Part 1
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Work on the Canadian Canyons scenery keeps rolling forward. An all-star trio (David, Eric, and Kent) takes on the task of modeling the seldom viewed right-of-way along Kamloops Lake, complete with stone arch viaducts, red rock cliffs, and murky lake water. See how […]
B&M NH Main June Update
B&M RR GP7 1562 hauls a mixed freight around Steve Tello’s Boston & Maine NH Mainline. Construction and landscaping continues on the HO scale layout set in Lowell, MA. […]
