by mike | Apr 25, 2018 | Detailing Track, The P48 Experience |
A prime reason I enjoy P48 so much is the opportunity it affords me to model the details I love. That potential is what drew me to quarter-inch scale and there was never any hesitation in my decision to go all in with track modeling. Details like joint bars set the...
by mike | Apr 4, 2018 | Detailing Track, Modeling Techniques, The P48 Experience |
Mud covered track like one might see next to a grade crossing is simple to do even long after the track is down. As with my post on oil soaked track, I rubbed some fine dirt into the area with my fingers and worked it in further with a short bristled brush, in this...
by mike | Mar 14, 2018 | Detailing Track, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience |
Crud, that oily, gritty mixture of grease, diesel fuel and dirt that sticks to everything near fueling racks or places where locomotives are stationary for long periods. It’s an effect many people seem to struggle with and maybe this post can help demystify the art...
by mike | Mar 1, 2018 | Detailing Track, The Modeling Conversation |
As the author of a book on handlaying track, the following statement may sound strange. The Gorilla In The Room Let’s address the gorilla in the room from the outset: handlaying track with the amount of detail shown here is labor intensive, time consuming and...
by mike | Nov 21, 2017 | Detailing Track, Modeling Techniques, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience |
Studying full-size turnouts helped me realize they can be as individual as fingerprints. Even after off-the-shelf components became widely available each railroad company had their own style tweaks. By contrast model railroaders are accustomed to cookie cutter...
by mike | Nov 13, 2017 | Detailing Track, Modeling Techniques, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience |
In this craft we accept a massive degree of compression and reduction without a second thought. According to my track charts, the siding I photographed in Part One is 1,893 feet long. Reduced to quarter-inch scale, that distance is 39.4375 feet. Take it down to HO and...
