Further Up Dunes Junction

Category: Techniques

• Techniques Work In Progress

  

  On My Bench: Scale 00 Screw-Link Couplings

  August 8, 2025
• Scale Modeling – Model Railroading Connection Techniques Work In Progress

  

  On My Bench: Application of Modeling Skills on the 00 Deltic

  July 25, 2025
• Techniques UK 7mm Work In Progress

  

  On My Bench: O Gauge Fruit Van Cleaned and Ready for Primer

  July 9, 2025
• Finished Models Techniques

  

  Call It Done: Tichy HO 40’ USRA Single-Sheath Box Car

  I followed up the ore cars with another Tichy offering, something a little more utilitarian and usable in a variety of operational and layout situations: a bog-standard composite (wood and steel) 40-foot box car. The build was in some ways simpler than the ore cars, and in other ways, a…

  June 25, 2025
• Pacific Electric Box Motor Yard Techniques Work In Progress

  

  On My Bench: De-Zombifying the PE Box Motor With Real Window Glass

  June 11, 2025
• Finished Models Scale Modeling – Model Railroading Connection Techniques

  

  Call It (okay, them) Done: Tichy HO Ore Cars

  Nearly all railroad models currently produced are offered completely finished. There are precious few model railroad kits in current production, and fewer yet produced in injection molded styrene—in other words, just a few model railroad kits that assemble like scale plastic model kits. Tichy Train Group more or less has…

  June 5, 2025
• Pacific Electric Box Motor Yard Techniques Work In Progress

  

  On My Bench: Transom Glazing on the PE Box Motor

  May 29, 2025
• Pacific Electric Box Motor Yard Techniques Work In Progress

  

  On My Bench: Watching Paint Dry

  April 10, 2025
• Pacific Electric Box Motor Yard Scale Modeling – Model Railroading Connection Techniques

  

  On My Bench: Enfilthening A Red Car Box Motor

  March 29, 2025
• Techniques Work In Progress

  

  On My Bench: Gloss Means Weathering Next!

  March 25, 2025