Features

A time capsule of railroad locomotive maintenance from the first half of the Twentieth Century, Nevada Northern Railway Museum's engine house is fascinating. No computer driven lasers sculpting composite materials here, just brute strength forging iron t

Our coverage of the IPMS-US National show which took place in August of 2007 in Anaheim, California.

Nevada Northern Railway Museum possesses nine historic diesel locomotives, including an operating Alco RS-2, RS-3, and an EMD SD-9. Two rare Baldwin diesel locomotives share the facility with a 25-ton GE switcher and two electric locomotives.

The Nevada Northern Railway Museum operates two steam locomotives: No. 40, a 1910 Baldwin 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler dual purpose engine, and No. 93, a 1909 Alco 2-8-0 Consolidation freight locomotive.

The Nevada Northern Railway Museum is dedicated to the restoration, preservation, interpretation, and operation of the Nevada Northern Railway historic facilities, yards, and rail collection. This evolving museum gives people the opportunity to experience

Matt explains the pros and cons of various air brush air supplies. He covers a wide range air delivery types and the necessary accessories.

Vacuum-forming is one of those techniques that many of us think about but never try. This feature may break that barrier. This is a step by step that anyone with some basic tools can do.

The key to continued success with an airbrush is what you do with it when you're done 'shooting' paint. Cleaning is a critical facet of airbrush use. Dave O’Meara walks us through a step by step process of cleaning a Badger 150.

Keith Magee is a long time member of Armorama.com and many members know him through his online diroama oriented store ScaleMilitary.com. Now our Texax members have a second opportunity to benefit from Keith’s modeling skills at his hobby store.

What do you do when you need a part and there is no after market kit? What do you do when the after market kit is out of stock? You could scratch build it, well there is now a new option – you can Print it. Yes Print it. Read more.

This is a project build story of a Verlinden’s (VP) Pirate Figure set. The set inspired a full project. It started out as an impulse buy and turned into a lengthy project full of new techniques and scratch building. Lots of tips and tricks from start t

Here is a great peek into a good old brick and mortar LHS. This is classic model hunting in small shops with lots of kits everywhere.

Dave reports in on his trip the AMPS East show. He and some other site members took in the sights, sounds, vendors and food. It soundes like a good time was had by all.

Dave took a trip and found a gem. He found a great railroad museum. These can be an afternoon of fun and a wealth of research information. Read about Dave's trip here.

When you need a large number of custom pieces creating molds is almost a must. Here one of our members shares how he made a mold using Lego blocks and silicone

Slavica Zaric sent us her show report about Belgrade Winner 2006 Model Show.

Robert brings us a great variety of photos from the Replicon XXI event in Freeport Recreation Center, Long Island, NY.

Does scale matter? The majority of the armor builders do so in 1/35th scale. The majority of manufacturers produce in 1/35th scale. This is being shaken up a bit with a recent influx of 1/48th scale armor products.

In the last few weeks there have been a number of threads over 'how to start' writing reviews for the site. The first impression many people have is that it's a truly daunting prospect. It's not easy, but the difficulties are NOT insurmountable. In this f

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Al shows us how he brings life to his vignettes and figures with a feature about making evergreen spalings.

Not the biggest, but certainly one of the more agreeable, this is my 'local' model show which is now in it's Ninth edition...

Charles King (T0) shows us how he weathers modern armour plating.

Ahmad Zaidi (Silantra) shows us how to make a cheap and extremely useful paint rack, no matter which range of apints you prefer.

Name It! A UK Based company supplying engraved metal nameplates to the modeller, to add that finishing touch to your model.

A personal photoalbum of a soldier of a Panzerjäger division at the Eastern Front

A few simple tips on how to improve those pics of your precious models.

Martin Ramsden (BrandydogUK) takes a look at Eden Camp - a rather unusual WW2-themed museum in the North of England.

Fred Boucher has undertaken an extensive investigation of various wash techniques, using a variety of paints and inks with different carrier liquids.

Jeremy Wee brings us another report on one of his loca Hobby stores.

In this, our continuing series on Local Hobby stores, Jeremy Wee (Jazza gives us the lowdown on Ace Hobby of Auckland, New Zealand.

In the continuing series on Local Hobby stores, we visit Transport models of Preston in the UK.

I built a WW1 Albatros some time ago which required a bare-wood fuselage and tried the popular oil paints technique. The effect was great and produced a beautifully subtle "wood grain", but the oils took so long to dry that dust was a real problem.

Nate Phelps (Porkchop) and I took a trip to the 2005 MMSI (Military Miniature Society of Illinois) show in Oakbrook, IL on October 15. There were many inspirational pieces to admire. Here, we bring you a limited, but hopefully well rounded cross section o

Good local model shops are hard to find. Take a look at Halifax Modellers World.

Here are a couple of really simple techniques for making fake chains and springs.

Vacuformed kits have been rather overshadowed in recent years, first by the appearance of resin models and then the rapid growth of short-run injection-moulded kits.

Getting that 'perfect' in-scale non-skid surface on your modern AFV can be difficult. Here is a simple techniques using nothing more than a spraygun or can that achieves the look you are after.

Rodger Cole [Halfyank] shows us an easy method on how to use silly putty instead of liquid masks.

A simple way of adding rivets to anything. Illustrated by Keith Forsyth, who credits the idea to Ian Saddler.

Vince nos mostra sua técnica para pintar cabeças de figuras em escala 1/35.

Ever wanted to add a TOW 2 Weapon System to your Hummer? Pete Becerra [Epi] gives us many clear diagrams of the real thing and a description.

An easy way to make your photos much smaller in size without the use of e.g Photo-Shop.

Last weekend in the city of Coruña, Spain, the seventh CIM (international Modelling Competion) was held under the auspices of a local modeling group - Escala of Coruña...

Cagın brings us how to make home-made display cases for your models. He builds one for his ship, Bluenose.

In this, the first, of the new Vendor Profiles, the first company to fall under the spotlight is a recent arrival - the U.S. Company, Alpine Miniatures.

Red4 introduces us to an 'add on' step to normal resin casting - Pressure. He walks you through what needed and how to ensure you get great resin castings every time.

Steve's background in prop making comes to help all of us with a great feature on how to reproduce parts in resin.

Voici comment bricoler facilement une petite planche à plier sans se ruiner. Je n'ai pas prévu de réinventer la poudre, j'ai tout bonnement tenté de reproduire différents outils vendu dans le commerce et tout ça pour moins de 10 Euros de matériel.