modeling the SP

In the previous post in this series, I completed the addition of two more domes, and a longer dome walkway, on the way to my stand-in tank c...

In the previous post in this series, I showed a few basic approaches I have used in painting or repainting HO scale figures (that post can b...

I still recall another modeler’s comment from some years ago, when I was on a layout tour. The layout we were viewing had a model house trai...

When discussing freight car movements under such topics as waybills, car confiscation, and operations generally, the term “free-running” is ...

Now I want to talk about painting. I have on occasion seen modelers physically recoil at the suggestion they could paint their own figures. ...

In the first post in this series, I described the kind of prototype wine car I want to build, showing how the prototype is built and detaile...

In this post I want to continue with a discussion of modifying figures, this time talking about a little more extensive kind of change. Here...