Posts in Techniques and Supplies

This is a very brief description of how I did the grassy area on my New NCR layout, extracted from my layout engineering thread on The Railwire.

Kathy Millatt is an incredibly talented modeler from the UK who, in this video, talks about how to get some scenery colors we might not otherwise have.

I wanted to pull together a list of some of the material I use for my dead season modeling to help others find what they’ll need.

Do you want a good primer on how to model The Dead Season? Go read Mike’s books.

Dead Season modeling.  Although I would love to follow this path, my layout’s chosen setting is an industrial area, totally devoid of trees, save one.  A dead one.   The Long Island Railroad Industrial service, or LIRR IS for short, is a small 1950’s era short line dedicated to servicing local mob owned businesses on a […]

I realized I should probably jot this down for anyone looking to model winter forests.

Woodland Scenics has, for years, been the default ballast choice of model railroaders. I’m not happy with it though, so I went looking for something better. I found it in sanded grout.

These tips were originally posted as advice in a thread over on my favorite railroad forum: The Railwire. I didn’t want to lose them, so I’m reposting them here.

One of my goals with the NCR shelf layout I’m working on is to try and compress as few items as possible. This includes the actual railroad right of way. Many model railroads tend to completely ignore the mechanics of prototype rights of way (drainage, spacing, sub-roadbed standards, etc…), and I didn’t want to be […]

Modelers, for years, have been looking for ways to replicate common every day things. Trees make up such a large part of the landscape that they are a frequent topic of discussion whenever the topic of scenery comes up.