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Now that David Popp has shared his fine design for a Chicago & North Western HO scale layout, it's time for Cody Grivno to start building a signature fleet of suburban service commuter cars. Cody gets things started by showing you how to disassemble and prepare the Rivarossi cars he selected to represent C&NW equipment.
Time for the big track plan reveal...well, almost! David first shares some additional historic photos that help complete our overall view of Crystal Lake, Illinois, the community that inspired his design. Finally, aided by Ben Lake's 3-D renderings, David walks and talks you through the entire plan for the C&NW HO scale layout.
Host Gerry Leone is feeling pretty groovy! That might help explain why this episode of OTR highlights modeling tips that came to light in issues of Model Railroader magazine published during the 1960s. Gerry might be a tad too "mature" to pull off the retro vibe, but he's out to prove that the info is timeless!
In this episode, Truck and his daughter Taylor explore the connection between Bachmann Bros. Plasticville kits, Lionel Corp., and a small Manhattan store front known as Madison Hardware. Truck also shares plenty of insights regarding the contents and packaging of Plasticville kits.
In this final episode of our Canadian Canyons N scale (1:160) layout construction series, David Popp and Drew Halverson highlight the efforts, successes, and shortcomings over the last year of planning and assembling the model railroad introduced in the January 2019 issue of MR magazine.
Group Technical Editor Cody Grivno shares new scenery tools, rolling stock, and more in this episode of Cody's Office. Cody will also show you how to use different types of sprue cutters on your next modeling project. Viewer mail topics this month include: where to find Vallejo Paints, more info on the Athearn SD40T-2, types of cars appropriate for a gravel quarry, Cody's "Fairbanks-Morse" computer, and techniques for modeling cactus and other desert plants.