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HO Railroad Model Train Layouts from Start to Finish.
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This book provides the construction steps for building a walkaround 4'x 8' layout. Photos, diagrams, and helpful instructions show how to construct benchwork and scenery, lay track, build detailed structures, weather freight cars, and more. 88 pgs., 100+ color photos, 55 illustrations, 8?"x 10?", sfbd.
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Sassi. This practical, heavily illustrated guide shows you the essential principles and techniques for designing and constructing detailed, realistic model railroad scenes that will make your good layout great. Pojects include structure, scenery, and detailing techniques for both urban and rural settings. 88 pages, 245 color and B&W photos and illustrations, 8?"x 10?", softcover.
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Enjoy this look at two of the grandest Lionel layouts ever built and get modeling tips from the pros who built them. First, you'll travel to Jackson, Mississippi where a train club recreated the famous 1949 Lionel Showroom Layout in meticulous, stunning detail. Then, you'll follow the story of Lionel's new, multi-level Showroom Layout from table construction, scenery, and wiring to the layout's public debut. Color, 1 hr. 35 min.
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N Scale Layout.
Get a big dose of model railroad action on this amazing 32"x 18" N scale layout that features the Norfolk Southern's busy mountain main line between Bluefield, Virginia and on, West Virginia. True to the prototype, this layout features plenty of grueling mountain grades, lush scenery, long bridges, a wonderful mix of motive power and non-stop "modern" railroad action. You'll watch this one again and again! Color, 30 minutes.
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Volume 1. This program shows you many of the techniques used to create scenery and "weather" the incredible 32"x 18" N scale layout featured above. You'll learn how to model trees and other foliage out of real weeds, "carve" rock formations, detail and weather locomotives and rolling stock, and more. Though shown in N scale, these techniques can be applied to layouts of any size or scale. Color, 1 hour.
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These five DVDs bring you in-depth, how-to modeling instruction plus footage of prototypes on which to base your designs. Color, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo, 4 hrs. 36 min. total runtime.
Volume 1: Installing and Blending Photo Mural Backdrops
Learn how to install a backdrop to a model railroad. You'll see a heavily wooded backdrop and Bas-Relief buildings blended into a backdrop, watch rocks being sculpted, learn how "half" trees and shrubs can be blended into a flat scenery mural, and more. Includes high-resolution pictures that can be printed from your computer. 1 hr. 8 min.
Volume 2: Scratch Building Structures
In this volume, the scratch building of four unique structures will teach you a wide variety of techniques. Structures include a small boiler house; offices attached to a roundhouse; a repair facility with complete interior detail including lighting, an interesting removable roof, and a small lean-to; and a passenger and freight station that is built as if it were sliced down the middle. Includes high-resolution pictures that can be printed from your computer. 1 hr. 3 min.
Volume 3: The Rio Grande Southern, Modeling the Prototype
You'll see why the Rio Grande Southern makes such a fine railroad to model as this video brings you great coverage of both the prototype and On3 layouts. Learn how to build some of the best looking evergreen trees you've ever seen and experience today's RGS firsthand. 1 hour.
Volume 4: The Last Steam Operated Sawmill
This video brings you one of the last steam operated sawmills in the United States. You will see this huge complex and experience every aspect of its operation from log delivery, to the mill pond, to debarking, sawing, edging, sorting and the finished goods. Color, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound. 30 minutes.
Volume 5: Four Narrow Gauge Layouts
See finished layouts from four well known modelers, filmed as if they were real life, with authentic sounds, sights and professional narration. This video includes an Sn3 layout of the Rio Grande Southern as it appeared in the late 1930s, an HOn3 as it appeared in the 1940s, and more. 55 minutes.
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Great Toy Train Layouts of America Parts 1-6 - DVD" hspace="10" src="http://www.historicrail.com/Image.po?pn=0RV6261 You can save money on shop repairs and avoid frustration by mastering some fundamental repair skills. Here, step-by-step instructions with accompanying photos and illustrations teach you the basic techniques needed to maintain and repair DC-powered model locomotives, rolling stock and layouts. These are skills all railroad modelers should have. 80 pages, 165 B&W photographs and illustrations, 8?"x 10?", softcover.
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Model Train Layouts, how-to Layout Books.
Build a Better Toy Train Layout" hspace="10" src="http://www.historicrail.com/Image.po?pn=0R04128	0R04128 1
Building a Model Railroad Step by Step" hspace="10" src="http://www.historicrail.com/Image.po?pn=0R04172	0R04172 2
HO Railroad Model Train Layouts from Start to Finish. 0R04090 This book provides the construction steps for building a walkaround 4'x 8' layout. Photos, diagrams, and helpful instructions show how to construct benchwork and scenery, lay track, build detailed structures, weather freight cars, and more. 88 pgs., 100+ color photos, 55 illustrations, 8?"x 10?", sfbd. #0R04090 1
0R01641 2
Sassi. This practical, heavily illustrated guide shows you the essential principles and techniques for designing and constructing detailed, realistic model railroad scenes that will make your good layout great. Pojects include structure, scenery, and detailing techniques for both urban and rural settings. 88 pages, 245 color and B&W photos and illustrations, 8?"x 10?", softcover. #0R04127 2
0R04161 2
Enjoy this look at two of the grandest Lionel layouts ever built and get modeling tips from the pros who built them. First, you'll travel to Jackson, Mississippi where a train club recreated the famous 1949 Lionel Showroom Layout in meticulous, stunning detail. Then, you'll follow the story of Lionel's new, multi-level Showroom Layout from table construction, scenery, and wiring to the layout's public debut. Color, 1 hr. 35 min. 0RV5807 24
N Scale Layout. Get a big dose of model railroad action on this amazing 32"x 18" N scale layout that features the Norfolk Southern's busy mountain main line between Bluefield, Virginia and on, West Virginia. True to the prototype, this layout features plenty of grueling mountain grades, lush scenery, long bridges, a wonderful mix of motive power and non-stop "modern" railroad action. You'll watch this one again and again! Color, 30 minutes. #0RV6817
Volume 1. This program shows you many of the techniques used to create scenery and "weather" the incredible 32"x 18" N scale layout featured above. You'll learn how to model trees and other foliage out of real weeds, "carve" rock formations, detail and weather locomotives and rolling stock, and more. Though shown in N scale, these techniques can be applied to layouts of any size or scale. Color, 1 hour. #0RV6819
These five DVDs bring you in-depth, how-to modeling instruction plus footage of prototypes on which to base your designs. Color, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo, 4 hrs. 36 min. total runtime. Volume 1: Installing and Blending Photo Mural Backdrops Learn how to install a backdrop to a model railroad. You'll see a heavily wooded backdrop and Bas-Relief buildings blended into a backdrop, watch rocks being sculpted, learn how "half" trees and shrubs can be blended into a flat scenery mural, and more. Includes high-resolution pictures that can be printed from your computer. 1 hr. 8 min. Volume 2: Scratch Building Structures In this volume, the scratch building of four unique structures will teach you a wide variety of techniques. Structures include a small boiler house; offices attached to a roundhouse; a repair facility with complete interior detail including lighting, an interesting removable roof, and a small lean-to; and a passenger and freight station that is built as if it were sliced down the middle. Includes high-resolution pictures that can be printed from your computer. 1 hr. 3 min. Volume 3: The Rio Grande Southern, Modeling the Prototype You'll see why the Rio Grande Southern makes such a fine railroad to model as this video brings you great coverage of both the prototype and On3 layouts. Learn how to build some of the best looking evergreen trees you've ever seen and experience today's RGS firsthand. 1 hour. Volume 4: The Last Steam Operated Sawmill This video brings you one of the last steam operated sawmills in the United States. You will see this huge complex and experience every aspect of its operation from log delivery, to the mill pond, to debarking, sawing, edging, sorting and the finished goods. Color, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound. 30 minutes. Volume 5: Four Narrow Gauge Layouts See finished layouts from four well known modelers, filmed as if they were real life, with authentic sounds, sights and professional narration. This video includes an Sn3 layout of the Rio Grande Southern as it appeared in the late 1930s, an HOn3 as it appeared in the 1940s, and more. 55 minutes. #0RV7305 129.75
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Great Toy Train Layouts of America Parts 1-6 - DVD" hspace="10" src="http://www.historicrail.com/Image.po?pn=0RV6261	You can save money on shop repairs and avoid frustration by mastering some fundamental repair skills. Here, step-by-step instructions with accompanying photos and illustrations teach you the basic techniques needed to maintain and repair DC-powered model locomotives, rolling stock and layouts. These are skills all railroad modelers should have. 80 pages, 165 B&W photographs and illustrations, 8?"x 10?", softcover. #0R04060 1