One-Day-Project: Scratch build an animal shelter

Scratch build a grain elevator – part 4

Southern EMD GP18 restoration and rebuild

Make your own streetlights

DIY

Home DIY

Build your own Static Grass Applicator

I found some tutorials on the internet about a home made Static Grass Applicator and decided to build one myself. See the end of...

Setup the Tsunami Digital Sound Decoder

In the previous post I described the sound upgrade of the Virginian 737. Now I will tune the decoder so the loco will run...

Pavement, Wall & Tile textures

In the download section you can find some of my texture files. I've got more than a gig of files, far to much to...

Scratch build a grain elevator – part 3

Cutting stripwood Well that is... well... boring. After sticking al the stripwood on to the cardboard body I use a  little sandingtool to smooth the...

Scratch build a grain elevator – part 1

A new project is boiling in my mind; scratch build a grain elevator. First a bit of history of Grain Elevators The need for Grain elevators...

Put a DCC function decoder in a Bay Window Caboose

A one evening project The Athearn Genesis Bay Windows Cabooses are delivered with and without lighting installed. The unlighted cabooses have LEDS installed in the...

Scratchbuild a watertank

In the august 2013 number of Modelrailroad Magazine there was a description of scratchbuilding a branchline watertank from stripwood. It seemed to be a...

One-Day-Project: Scratch build an animal shelter

Today I finished a one-day-project: building a shelter for animals on the lower section of my shelf layout. Not a hi-tech project, but very...

Streetlight update

The first streetlights are connected and placed on the layout. Here are some pictures in a pretty dark room. The power to the LED's...