Making Model Buildings for Garden Railways
Title | Making Model Buildings for Garden Railways PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Jones |
Publisher | Crowood Press UK |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-12-01 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9781847972729 |
Whether making buildings to complement a garden railway, creating an entire model village, or simply one stand-alone structure, there is something immensely satisfying in seeing your model building standing proudly outside where it truly belongs, in all weather conditions and throughout the seasons. Here, Peter Jones shows you how to make a variety of buildings, from churches to Tudor houses to locomotive sheds, using different materials and producing different finishes to suit each type of construction.
How to Design and Build Your Garden Railroad
Title | How to Design and Build Your Garden Railroad PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Verducci |
Publisher | Kalmbach Publishing, Co. |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9780890246443 |
Increase your knowledge and skills with tips for designing, planning, and installing a layout; landscaping with natural materials; adding drama with structures, bridges, and trestles; and designing and installing water features.
Building Structures for Your Garden Railway
Title | Building Structures for Your Garden Railway PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Verducci |
Publisher | Kalmbach Media |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Railroads |
ISBN | 9780890247198 |
"The material in this book has previously appeared as articles in Garden Railway magazine"--T.p. verso.
Making Model Railway Buildings
Title | Making Model Railway Buildings PDF eBook |
Author | Andy McMillan |
Publisher | Crowood |
Pages | 770 |
Release | 2014-04-30 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 184797743X |
This invaluable book 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 include railway and non-railway 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 and 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. Also 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, giving 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. Discusses the 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. Superbly illustrated with 622 colour photographs.
The Garden Railway Manual
Title | The Garden Railway Manual PDF eBook |
Author | C. J. Freezer |
Publisher | Haynes Publishing |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 9781852604653 |
A practical overview of the garden railway covering both the traditional raised system and the ground-level type. Chapters include: gauges and scales for the garden, surveying and setting out, electricity in the garden, planning the layout, civil engineering, track laying and live steam operation. Fully illustrated with photographs and specially produced diagrams. Filled with clear and precise, step-by-step instructions on how to complete the various modelling and construction processes.
Garden Railway Basics
Title | Garden Railway Basics PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Strong |
Publisher | Kalmbach Media |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Backyard gardens |
ISBN | 9780890248355 |
Find all the fundamental building blocks you need to plan, build, and enjoy a successful backyard rail empire in Garden Railway Basics: From concept to construction to upkeep. Ten years of sage advice from Garden Railways magazine columnist Kevin Strong -- a lifelong modeler -- has been updated and compiled into one of the most comprehensive reference tools available. Learn how to: *
Building and Operating a Realistic Model Railway
Title | Building and Operating a Realistic Model Railway PDF eBook |
Author | Allen Jackson |
Publisher | The Crowood Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2016-08-31 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 1785001701 |
This informative book provides a step-by-step account of the construction, from scratch, of a model railway called Dovedale. The model is operated like a real modern railway and was built entirely by the author within a strict low budget, using, wherever possible, recycled materials. Moreover, Dovedale is based on a specific prototype that exists in Buxton in Derbyshire, where freight trains run into an interchange siding, the locomotive runs round the train and then departs to a different destination. Some model railways are operated somewhat chaotically and are characterized by frequent derailments and locomotives that stop arbitrarily. If you wish to move away from this kind of layout and construct a model railway that operates realistically and reflects more closely the way that railways actually work in the second decade of the 21st century, then this is the book for you. Whilst constantly emphasizing realistic operation, the book covers layout planning and construction, controllers, point motors, power supply, cables and connectors, ways of operating traffic flows, signalling, track droppers, control panels and wiring, control and interlocking, lighting, sequence and block bells, the use of closed circuit television, and much more. Superbly illustrated with 258 colour photographs and diagrams.