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I hesitate every time I throw a tin can in the garbage. I've been wanting to try this for a long time now. If anyone wants to give it a shot go to the Tutorials page of our website https://www.scalemodelplans.com/ to see the procedure I came up with.

Yes, they do make a few other patterns still. I think the red brick is still available. Here is one of our projects that used a stone finish: https://www.scalemodelplans.com/smp/pgs/catalog2.html#756 Gibralter Point Lighthouse. I think the stone is still available.

Not to sell, but to use both for ourselves and also to refer to our customers. We have customers from about fifty countries around the world, and often people like to know what materials we used for a particular model. I like to be able to refer our customers to reliable sources. Sadly, in...

A few years ago I stock-piled a large quantity of Micro-Mark peel & stick textured roofing material. It was available in several colors, which were similar to the colors of available asphalt roofing of the 1950's and 1960's. I used the brown in our latest online catalog project, as it was very...

I just finished the tutorial. It's a short one. I didn't have my camera ready so I used my phone. I would have liked a few more photos, but I was anxious to get the project done. Here is the link: https://www.scalemodelplans.com/smp/tutorials/deck_boards.html I used balsa and black...

I was anxious to finish my Craigellachie (The CPR Last Spike) depot, when I realized that I didn't have enough material to finish the platform. The Craigellachie depot is a fairly simple structure, so I wanted to dress it up a little with some ship decking material for a more realistic looking...

This is an N scale version using mostly balsa, miscellaneous dowels, and two tuna cans. All scales, (N, HO, OO, O) can be constructed using basic materials and common hardware store materials. To make life easier for the N scale version I used Plastruct railings and stairs. There are thirty...

This is an N scale model of The Great Stone Viaduct in Bellaire Ohio. It is done entirely in balsa. The Garden scale version uses cedar strips for the simulated "limestone blocks". Here is a typical CN truss bridge, also in N scale:

I've never seen a T scale, (not TT), but its apparently smaller yet! Maybe that will be my next step.

Made with Model Builder textures using N scale plans: