One of my co-workers inquired about getting a train around the Christmas tree and whether I had any recommendations. Well, maybe she didn’t ask for a recommendation, but I gave her one anyway. My mom has an HO-Scale steam 4-4-0 locomotive with passenger cars around her tree, and in college I had an N-Scale Burlington [...]
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The Art of Scale Drawing
It was art time in our household so I set my son up with some paints, crayons and paper before I sat down next to him with my own pencil, scale ruler, graph paper, and numerous pictures of a building I was working on. “Are you not doing art with me?” He asked. “Yes I [...]
Picking Locations and an Era
When a soon to be model railroader sits down and starts to design his (or her) layout, he (or she) will start by picking out a location and time period. The number of locations a model railroader picks are of course dependent upon space. Even within the locations, one needs to choose certain structures and areas as [...]
