Jack Verducci Download full-size drawings: a wheelbarrow metal lawn furniture decorative flower cart and a picnic table! […]
Section: Modeling
Video 101: Shooting on location
Today we hit the road. Our goal will be to make an interesting 3 minute, home video using a readily available action camera, still cameras and homemade accessories. Our raw video will be edited on consumer level software; we will add sound effects, and zippy music. We will make a gift copy for the owner, […]
Templates for an HO scale log grasping lift
Click on the link to download the part templates for the log-grasping lift. In the June 2017 Model Railroader, Andrew Taylor describes how he kitbashed an HO scale container loader into a log-grasping lift. Andrew scratchbuilt the claw-like lift from styrene. Click on the link below to download the templates for cutting out the parts. […]
Computer desktop wallpaper from the June 2017 Model Railroader
Click on the links at left to download this image sized appropriately for your computer screen. Pat Ryan built and photographed this HO scale model railroad scene of the Norfolk & Western Powhatan Arrow rounding a river bend as a Virginian Ry. coal train rumbles across a steel truss bridge. Click on the links below […]
Video 101: Shooting on location
Today we hit the road. Our goal will be to make an interesting 3 minute, home video using a readily available action camera, still cameras and homemade accessories. Our raw video will be edited on consumer level software; we will add sound effects, and zippy music. We will make a gift copy for the owner, […]
Accucraft’s live-steam Norfolk & Western 4-8-4
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Boeing planes on a train at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum
This video was shot during BNSF Days at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. The video features Boeing 737 fuselages and SkyBox cars. The entire train is from the collection of museum volunteer John Krueger. […]
Video: Walthers HO scale Plymouth ML-8 switcher
Recently Model Railroader senior editor Dana Kawala had a chance to examine and operate a preproduction sample of Walthers new HO scale Plymouth ML-8 switcher. The model includes a SoundTraxx Digital Command Control (DCC) motor decoder with a CurrentKeeper capacitor system. See the switcher in action as it works a yard on the Model Railroader […]
Olympia 2, The Log Blog: Part 4 – Punching holes in things
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Yes, David punches through the backdrop of the original Olympia Logging Co. On30 display-style layout. But first, he talks through many of the modifications he made to his design for the new extension. More proof that even the best-laid plans are subject to […]
Olympia 2, The Log Blog: Part 4 – Punching holes in things
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Yes, David punches through the backdrop of the original Olympia Logging Co. On30 display-style layout. But first, he talks through many of the modifications he made to his design for the new extension. More proof that even the best-laid plans are subject to […]
How-to Library: Track Planning Made Easy – Computer-aided design, Part 2 Adding Track
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Gerry Leone started this all-new MRVP mini-series by creating a virtual room for a new model railroad using computer-aided design (CAD) software. In Part 2, he keeps things rolling by showing how to add, arrange, and even adjust track components for your layout. […]
How-to Library: Track Planning Made Easy – Computer-aided design, Part 2 Adding Track
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Gerry Leone started this all-new MRVP mini-series by creating a virtual room for a new model railroad using computer-aided design (CAD) software. In Part 2, he keeps things rolling by showing how to add, arrange, and even adjust track components for your layout. […]