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Layout Detailing Articles

A Fistful of Details

Adding people, business marketing signs, street signs, backyard details, and products of industry.

A Layout Is Never Finished

The author describes various details he is now adding to his fairly complete layout, such as bottle-brush-style grass clusters, tie piles, rail pieces, pallets, tools, coal bin, tree stumps, and building foundations. He also describes how he built two spools of steel cable, one enclosed and one exposed. A sidebar covers his use of various chemicals to age and weather things on his layout. There are lots of ideas for enhancing your layout in this article.

Conductor's Clipboard

Consider putting figures in your locomotives and automobiles on your layout. Put trains on empty tracks when composing a photo for the Dispatch. Starting the Scratchbuilding 101 column.

Southern's Old Cumberland River Crossing

The author models a prototype scene where the track crosses a trestle bridge and immediately goes into a tunnel on the other side, which appeared near Burnside, Kentucky.

Sweat the Small Stuff

The author shares his philosophy about detailing the scenes on his layout.