Login
or
Register
Subscriber & Member Login
Login, or register today to interact in our online community, comment on articles, receive our newsletter, manage your account online and more!
Login
Register
Home
»
Model Railroader
»
Forums
»
General Discussion (Model Railroader)
»
Several Newbie Questions...
Edit post
Edit your reply below.
Post Body
Enter your post below.
If you'll pardon my interpreting your original question... <br /> <br />It seems to me (to some extent from experience) that you need to ask yourself a big chunk of what you want to do... <br /> <br />If you have been BOTH modelling at a high skill level and doing lots of high detail research you MIGHT want to consider scratch building railroad items... whether it's locos, cars, buildings... whatever. This can involve loads of research into the specific prototype AND developing the skills unique to your choice... building a passenger depot from scale lumber will be a whole different challenge from building a Mustang (That was a P45? ... did you see the film about the one they pulled out of the ice? Incredible...SCAREY... and I used to go potholing and looking in mines). <font color="blue">{Just remembered... it was a Lightning P?}.</font id="blue"> <br />Model Railroads doesn't have to be about building a layout. Nor does it have to be about running trains. In scales from miniature engineering on 10 1/4" gauge track to N (if not Z) people enjoy focussing their attention and time on building just one thing to the nth degree of accuruacy... as I'm sure you're used to with aircraft. <br /> <br />Then again (you might want a change - or a parrallel) you might want to whack down some track, get some RTR (Ready to Run) out of a box and play trains... which is great... you could even leave a train trundling round while you make a 1902 boxcar from scratch. <br /> <br />I guess that the first thing to try to do is to not box yourself in with one idea. If you can take a bit of time to see what options there are out there. <br /> <br />You might even build that depot from individual boards and then go on and furnish it. You could model to the same scale as your military stuff. I figured out years ago that 1/35 gives a combination that falls close to metre gauge... closer than O Scale does to 32mm = (it doesn't = ) 4'8 1/2". There's really nice metre gauge stuff from Belgian Street trams to 2-6-0+0-6-0 Mallets (Burma if I recall correctly). <br /> <br />The important thing is to take time and enjoy yourself... and don't be afraid to change...
Tags (Optional)
Tags are keywords that get attached to your post. They are used to categorize your submission and make it easier to search for. To add tags to your post type a tag into the box below and click the "Add Tag" button.
Add Tag
Update Reply
Subscriber & Member Login
Login, or register today to interact in our online community, comment on articles, receive our newsletter, manage your account online and more!
Login
Register
Users Online
There are no community member online
Search the Community
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Model Railroader Newsletter
See all
Sign up for our FREE e-newsletter
and get model railroad news in your inbox!
Sign up