Modellings tips and answers - Modelling a station - Videos

This week in history

 

On March 19th 1924, the Baldwin Locomotive works completed the last commercially manufactured locomotive for the Maine narrow-gauge railway.

If you use an airbrush, you probably want a set of "Basic Colours" from Vallejo Model Air. This is a set of 16 paints, specifically designed for airbrushing. They cover the most common colours such as white, black, red, yellow, green, greys and browns. They are eyedropper bottles for ease of use. Click on the picture for more details:

Stations are a big part of most modeller's layouts, there are big ones, small ones, recreations of real ones and completely made up ones, but whichever type of station you have created, there is always plenty that you can do to develop it and help it become a centrepiece on your layout. There are many larger or more obvious features you can add to your station to make it more interesting and imposing such as: a footbridge, canopy, station signs, platform lamps, fencing and benches. These OO gauge items are all very worthy additions to a station, but what you may not realise, is how many types and styles there are to choose from in model form, so resist picking the first one that you see, it's always worth researching ranges and offerings to find the one that will not only 'do', but that you love!

And don't forget the lesser considered details, it is these that provide realism to your station such as clocks and baggage carts, many bigger stations have platform signals, underpasses instead of bridges and car parks all just waiting to be modelled. But there is one thing all stations big and small have, and that is people, they are the soul of every station (apart from the trains that is) so don't forget to model them!

Modelling tips

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