Making Model Railway Buildings (2014) (Epub) Gooner

Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd (31 Aug. 2012)

Author: Andy McMillan

Language: English

ISBN-10: 184797340X (2012)

ISBN-13: 9781847973405 (2012)

ASIN: B00JD09LG2 (2014)


This invaluable book, written by a professional model railway builder, is essential reading for all railway modellers, whatever their level of expertise. The author provides an overall understanding of the purpose of making buildings for a model railway and covers their construction, their positioning and how to light them.


Topics covered:


> Railway and non-railway model buildings, explaining how the latter can also enhance your trains


> Modelling attitudes, the use of scale, levels of detail and both regional vernacular and railway architecture


> Ready-made buildings that you can buy and demonstrates how you can adapt them to your own particular purposes


> Different materials available for building structures and ways of choosing, finding, measuring and recording suitable prototypes


> Step-by-step construction of a cardboard building kit to illustrate the use of basic modelling tools and to explain essential procedures and techniques


> Using and modifying 'out-of-the-box' model buildings and explores the subtleties of making model railway buildings from scratch without the use of a kit, or anything more than hand-tools and a few sheets of suitable material


> Guidance on the appropriate use of texture and colour, and shows how walls, doors, windows, roofs and chimneys can be created, painted, detailed and finished off


> Many aspects of lighting, including external lighting, such as street and platform lights, and the internal lighting of buildings, the problems they pose and how they can be resolved


> Lighting can create dramatic effects with reference, for example, to the installation of illuminated ground signals in N-gauge using the latest 'surface-mount' technology, and by producing brilliantly illuminated back-lit sunsets