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Menards O gauge UFO scene
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Menards O gauge UFO scene
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How-to Library: Airbrushing with Aaron, Episode 9, Masking with Silly Putty
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Show host Aaron Skinner deals with a very serious subject — Silly Putty! Follow along as he shows how to stretch and mold this crazy compound to mask irregularly shaped surfaces prior to painting with an airbrush. And unlike masking tape, you’ll […]
How-to Library: Airbrushing with Aaron, Episode 9, Masking with Silly Putty
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Show host Aaron Skinner deals with a very serious subject — Silly Putty! Follow along as he shows how to stretch and mold this crazy compound to mask irregularly shaped surfaces prior to painting with an airbrush. And unlike masking tape, you’ll […]
City Terminal & Transfer Series: Episode 11 Starting Scenery
Scenery for our O gauge CT&T Railway gets started! Kent shows how to prep and paint the tunnel, install retaining walls, and add coarse ground covering. David then shares a technique for making realistic rock outcroppings using Sculptamold and rubber rock molds. […]
City Terminal & Transfer Series: Episode 11 Starting Scenery
Scenery for our O gauge CT&T Railway gets started! Kent shows how to prep and paint the tunnel, install retaining walls, and add coarse ground covering. David then shares a technique for making realistic rock outcroppings using Sculptamold and rubber rock molds. […]
Drawings for a small-town train depot
Click on the link below to download the prototype drawings. Harold W. Russell Frequent Model Railroader contributor Harold W. Russell wrote about the Avoca, N.Y., station in the September 2018 issue. He made detailed drawings from measurements taken from the prototype Delaware, Lackawanna & Western train depot. Click on the link below to download Harold’s […]
Plans and materials list for a California tank house
Click on the link below to download the plans for this project. Alain Kap In the September 2018 Model Railroader, Alain Kap describes how he scratchbuilt one of these distinctive tank houses from styrene for his HO scale Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Surf Line layout. Featuring a windmill these structures were once common in […]
Canadian Canyons Series: Kamloops Lake Water, Part 2
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page David has the plexiglas water installed in the Kamloops Lake scene of our Canadian Canyons N scale project layout. Now Eric White can begin installing the stone wall along the waterfront. Follow along as he shows how to prep, paint, and then place […]
Canadian Canyons Series: Kamloops Lake Water, Part 2
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page David has the plexiglas water installed in the Kamloops Lake scene of our Canadian Canyons N scale project layout. Now Eric White can begin installing the stone wall along the waterfront. Follow along as he shows how to prep, paint, and then place […]
New products from the September 2018 issue of Classic Toy Trains magazine
BOOK ’EM JACKO: Give five-oh a prominent spot on your O gauge layout with the no. 279-4435 Police Plaza from Menards. The multi-story police station features a brightly illuminated entrance (guarded by, who else? Jack the police dog) and a rooftop helipad with police chopper. The roof has flashing red LEDs, and the helipad has […]
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 […]
