The Sept/Oct edition of the free Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine is out now. In this issue, out of the many articles i found zip texturing, modeling tree stumps, farm fencing were particularly useful and informative.
A house in North Hykeham, Lincolnshire, UK has gone on the market for £105,000 and it includes a 1,000ft miniature railway in the backyard. The railway is extensively detailed with a village, castle, fairground. It even has bridges and waterfalls around a Koi carp pool in the center.
The railway and the house will go under the hammer on September 29.
I have been working on creating HO scale bricks and siding sheets using a graphic tool (Corel’s PaintShop). This is my first of my brick series.
Click on the image below for a HO scale faded brick sheet (PDF: 450kb) that you could use in your scratchbuilding projects.
Faded Brick
Previously: More free sheets.
The Washington Hotel in Akihabara, Tokyo has a L-shaped train “diorama” in one of their rooms which you can stay in. The train room opened in June and costs $265 per night and already there is a month’s waiting list for this room. In addition to the model train, you could also see the Shinkansen line and Akiba station from the window.
A Happy Place for the railfan to be in…
Model Railroad Hobbyist visits the 2010 Milwaukee National Train Convention held recently and brings up many vendor interviews and footage from the show.
The Imagine That clip showing their elevated laser cut structure/layout was breathtaking.
Standing at 10ft, the looping train track is currently on display at St Pancras train station. The model railway set was provided by the Japanese company Tomica.
Thanks Ernie for your request in HO brick textures. I haven’t done any scratchbuilding for quite some time now. However as you had requested, here are some HO bricks.
Hope it helps you and fellow scratchbuilders in your projects.
Please click on the images to download them (direct link to PDF’s).
The following two were done in Model Builder.
Bricks
Bricks
I have been trying to do the brick textures using Corel’s Paint Shop Editor. This way i get more control on the colors and weathering. This one below is my first attempt. I hope to better the final outcome as i dabble more in this technique.
Bricks (created in Paint Shop editor)
Also, Here are some more of HO textures that i had previously posted.
Bricks
Rusted Metal Roof
Bricks
Roof
Siding
The July/August edition of the free online model railroad magazine is out now. With each issue, this magazine is getting better.
Check it out and be inspired by the variety of articles for all skill levels. Did i say its free!
Siberian Wooden Houses is a desktop wallpaper site by vladstudio.
It has an amazing collection of pictures of wooden houses and windows from Irkutsk, center of East Siberia. With a little cropping help we could bring these great looking windows into our models.
We will need a image viewer or editor and a copy of Evan Design’s Model Builder. Model Builder scales our drawing plan to our preferred modeling scale so the whole process takes less time.
Here is how we will do it:
A full fledged graphic editor like Photoshop, Paint Shop or Gimp (free) will give you more control but since most windows in this site are aligned properly we can use a simple image viewer like FastStone Image Viewer.
Lets go and get our window from Siberian Wooden Houses.
Select the one you like, right click the image and Copy Image as shown below.
(Note: I am using Firefox so if you use Internet Explorer or other browsers, the menu option might be different)
Launch FastStone Image Viewer and under the Edit menu select Past Image.
Your copied image will appear in the preview window.
Right Click and select Edit -> Crop Board
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In this window you can select a rectangle around the window and then click on the Crop to Clipboard button on the bottom.
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Now launch your Model Builder and Edit-> Paste your image onto your building. These widows might be small so you will have to change the width and height property of the “pasted” window to match your building.
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Model Builder has many in-built windows but adding other different kinds of windows lets you create unique Model Builder structures. You could use this tip for any window image you find on the net but Siberian Wooden Houses gives us a great collection of old and weathered wooden windows.
The May/Jun issue of the free Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine is now available. Some very interesting and useful articles in this issue are Basic Diesel Detailing for Beginners, Lighting Structures with LEDs and adding details to a Loading Dock. As always this is an outstanding magazine for beginners and seasoned railroad modelers.
Do give them a read if you haven’t done it before.
