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And then one day, the little woodshop was completed: I searched through wood working magazines, trying to find words to cut out, that...

I'll leave the oil on the station dock to dry for about a week. So, the Inter-Action Hobbies building was started. It will not be...

And then, on a whim, I decided that I didn't like the raw sienna colour, and changed it to a burnt umber. I'd decided to stain the...

As I work through this loading dock deal, I decided to give the deck a light coat of raw sienna oil, to see if I like the colour. Oils...

The loading dock was given a top-coat of primer grey. I prime most items I paint; sometimes I think it's just a bad habit. It's also...

My name is Dax, and I have been involved in the hobby since I was about 12. But I have never got the chance to build a layout. I just...

I had the same experience with the decals included in a new Walthers kit. I too used Micro-sol. The decals didn't want to stick. I ended...

Construction of my scratch-built 3rd Class Station has been completed, for the most part. So, I took it out into the bright, backyard...

Just so you know, the track used on those layouts is a really cheap knockoff of the Marklin track. While it looks good, I don't know how...

I'm HO all the way too. But I keep running across Franklin Mint Z scale layouts inspired by Norman Rockwell paintings (winter and summer...

At the pick and pull today

One of the buildings that I wanted on my layout, was a CN 3rd Class railway station. I've always known that one existed in Whitecourt...

I've had the issue of buckling with the track attached to the foam with double sided carpet tape. I concluded that the foam itself...

McLeod - Don't sell your balsa wood buildings short! I built a meat packing plant based on an article in a 1950's (???) Model Railroader...

Today, I was installing acetate clear from blister packs into the Tichy windows/doors of a CN 3rd Class station that I've scratch-built...