Videos & Photos Archives - Page 210 of 307

Winston-Salem Southbound Series: Installing a hardboard backdrop – Part 1

Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page MRVP’s David Popp launches into another informative multi-part series. This time he shows why and how to install, finish, paint, and even light a hardboard backdrop along the back of our Winston-Salem HO scale project layout. Part 1 covers the initial assembly process. […]

Winston-Salem Southbound Series: Kitbashing industrial structures – Part 4

Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page For the final installment of this kitbashing mini-series, David shows you how to give industrial structures a gritty, weathered appearance. David keeps things simple by using little more than an array of modeling paints applied with a brush and a wash (diluted stain). […]

HO Wig Wag Crossing

I completed the HO Wig-Wag crossing using an actual 3mm magnetic actuator on the pole made from a modified coreless motor inside a brass shim-stock enclosure. The 3-phases windings are driven by an Arduino. The wig-wag crossing was made from a kit from Showcase Miniatures and tools from the Small Shop. Yes, this was wired […]

Rehab My Railroad: Episode 9

Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page A brand-new season of Rehab My Railroad is finally here! This time host Drew Halverson and layout owner Chuck Sable get involved in the renovation work MRVP talents David Popp and Cody Grivno begin last year on Chuck’s HO scale model railroad. Of […]

MRVP Video Vault – Weathering Railroad Models with Malcolm Furlow: Metals and masonry

Malcolm Furlow demonstrates techniques for simulating metal oxidation and corrosion on styrene parts

Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Multi-talented artist and model railroader Malcolm Furlow demonstrates techniques for simulating metal oxidation and corrosion on styrene parts. He then turns to aging plaster and plastic components used to represent masonry. And if that’s not enough, Malcolm also shares a few additional structure […]

MRVP Video Vault – Layout Tour: Allen McClelland’s HO Virginian & Ohio

Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Trace the origins of the famous Virginian & Ohio that highlighted the pages of Model Railroader magazine throughout the 1980s. Host Allen Keller interviews the man behind the layout that was as much of a real railroad as a model can be! […]

Toy Train Basics: Changing traction tires

Classic Toy Trains magazine Editor Hal Miller demonstrates his quick and easy techniques for replacing those worn out rubber traction tires found on many O gauge steam and diesel locomotives. […]

Drew’s Trackside Adventures: Episode 27 – Back to Lombard Canyon

Drew Halverson looks on at a blue and white-stripped Montana Rail Link diesel locomotive.

In this episode, host Drew Halverson quite literally takes railfanning to new heights! Drew and The Danneman Boys head back to Lombard Canyon, Montana, where they barnstorm BNSF and MRL trains, all with the help of pilot Charlie Conway and his plane Bessie. Watch as the crew captures stunning aerial images on a DTA trek […]