The Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co — better known as Delco Electronics Corportation, or simply Delco — is an automotive electronics company that created the world’s... [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]

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]

Let’s take a look at New York City’s Pennsylvania Station — one of the most architecturally-significant pieces of railroad history — as seen through the Hollywood’s... [Read more]

It’s time to continue the Pennylvania Railroad Hunt Tower built from part 1, and start building some windows and assembling walls.  Photo by Flickr member, McIvory. Used with... [Read more]

And so begins my adventure in scratch-building a structure. Sure, I’ve scratch built things for my model railroad before — newsstands, kiosks, a pigeon coop and other small... [Read more]

How many times have you worked on a project with strip styrene, only to find a pile of random pieces left when you’re done? Is that .015″ or .020″? You’re not... [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]