Typically Frank and I have stayed away from letting people try to sell off their items on our site.  We feel it is something better suited to places such as eBay.  However this is... [Read more]

I have had the want to build a barbershop for sometime.  I came very close to adding one on a few of the past structures I have built and for one reason or another I decided against... [Read more]

I am in the middle of adding the final details to a fantastic & tiny Willmodels kit.  Look for the article in the next few days.  [Read more]

Hello everyone, I know some of you know that I am on the beginning stages of building a new layout.  For the most part, this is where the majority of progress on it will be posted.... [Read more]

Being a modeler of the transition era New York Central and loving headend cars on passenger trains, I needed express cars.  On the NYCRR, many styles of headend equipment was used,... [Read more]

In part one we raised the stations walls, added windows and did a little painting.  So lets move right into it and continue where we left off. Construction I gave a warning in the... [Read more]

A few years ago on one of my many travels on the wonderful website of the Library of Congress, I stumbled upon the work of Russell Lee (1903 – 1986).  Lee was part of a group... [Read more]

It has been my quest to help tare down the walls and stereotypes of scratch building.  The level of satisfaction that you gain from creating a structure from scratch verses kit built... [Read more]

Rooftops are one of the most neglected areas on a structure but usually the most visible.  So why do so many modelers neglect to detail them?  I know in my case it is one of the... [Read more]

I have been in N scale for about twenty years now and have won various awards for my modeling.  Now I am trying to find a way of networking with modelers like myself and share what... [Read more]