"Hope you enjoy my modelling tips"
My name’s Al.
I’ve been dipping in and out of model railroading for years – ever since my teens in fact, and I’m no spring chicken now.
But with being only 69 years young, comes time!
(Well, none of us now how long we’ve got and I plan to be about for a good while longer.)
Anyhow, being retired and having time on my hands – I though i’d pick it back up. But rather than make mistakes on the way I thought I’d plan a lot more this time, rather than just rush in to things.
I figure if you can your layout right, the scenery will follow okay.
Hope you like the blog.
Please do email me any tips or how tos!
Thanks for stopping by!
Best
Al
Hi all.Wow great tips.Glad you liked the flagmans tip.I have lots more idea’s.Aluminum pipes from food containers.But im glad to see an idea of mine make it to the net thanks lots.keep up the great work.Kim the canuk
you are doing a good service Al, plenty of tips and advice given with your site
thanks Al you have been a great help looking thru your site
Good tips Al. My wife and I found out about the coffee one, we use it for ground cover in the rail yard, after making coffee and drying the grounds of course.
A tip: furnace filter material when spray painted makes good tree foliage. Use several different shades of green for realism. The filter stuff can be glued onto twigs from your yard. Spray cans from the paint store work just fine. Do
spray out doors.
TRAIN MODLES ARE AWSOME ARENT THEY
Hi Al, this is great !!! The rage of models is super. The system to make it work for many different scales is excelent. Do you have an e-mail address? would like to go in touch with you.
Regards, Peter
I reuse dried tea leaves as fall foliage flooring. Works the same as the coffee grounds, but better for fall-era layouts. I have some pictures if you need them, drop me an email.
R
Model Railroading is fun I still use the old style track in HO Scale I do like scale model Trolleys and Streetcars and I wish there would be more over the counter ready to run stuff like old fashioned interurbans
I have an old HO scale Union pacific freight train, that I’ve had since I was about 8 years old. Now Im 44 with a son of 10 and i think it would fun to get out the train and rebuild. Unfortunately, the locomotive is no longer working, the powersupply is also shot. I guess that is what happens over the years. I guess my question is where do I start. I would like to do some landscapeing so that i can use a tressel bridge that I have but never used.