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Air compressor connections for model railroaders
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Video 101: Scouting locations
Location scouting is a vital part of filmmaking. A movie-production company sends an advance team...
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Video 101: Vignettes and transitions
A “vignette” is a small portrait whose edges fade into the background without a definite...
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Stuff We Use: Get straight cuts with a miter box and razor saw
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Stuff We Use: Bachmann HO scale track cleaning car
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Video 101: Sharper images
“Aria” wrote in, asking how to get sharply focused videos that reveal the road names...
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Video 101: Talking pictures
We can do something with our videos that frontier photographers could not. We can make...
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Video 101 Trains at twilight
Many garden railways are lighted for evening viewing. Some have intricate model street lighting, while...
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Video 101: Where’s my stuff?
Even short videos require lots of media. Locating your libraries of video clips, photographs, sound...
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Video 101: Postproduction
“The trainyard is your media; the train is your story. Assemble the tracks you need....
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Video 101: Shooting on location
Today we hit the road. Our goal will be to make an interesting 3 minute,...
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Video 101: Movies tell stories
Some of my first video clips were simply attempts to show the sheer joy of...
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Model Railroader Quick Tips: Easy airbrush cleaning fluid
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Model Railroader Quick Tips: Caulk for tracklaying
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Model Railroader Quick Tips: Corrugated metal siding
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Model Railroad Operations: Six tips for better operations
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Demonstration of magnetic air hoses on HO scale freight cars
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How to paint wheelsets on model train cars
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