Søren's Model Railway Pages

Last year I built a winter diorama to have a nice display for Christmas. I think a model winter landscape is a fun way of displaying trains in the holiday season. I was not very happy with the back side of the station. I thought I needed some sort of better solution for the road that is supposed to be there. I also did not like the way the freight shed connected with the parking lot. This year it is time for a new parking lot and road.

In the previous installment I showed you how to construct a base using plaster cloth and newspaper. In this installment I lay the track and ballast products from Woodland Scenics and NOCH.

The NOCH company is famous for its many products regarding model landscaping and in the later years also model houses and a lot of other accessories for your model railway. I like the products very much and I use them a lot. To help their customers use their products, NOCH publishes a guidebook (NOCH #71909) and a DVD (NOCH #71916). I bought the guidebook and the DVD to check them out.

Some time ago I did an article on using the motor imitations that come with the point drive from Märklin. It provides a nice little touch and at the same time let's you know that the point is not a manual one. There is just one problem with these small plastic parts: They fall off. From time to time, and more often than not, they will simply fall off the point when you handle it. This article shows you how to take care of that using a nifty product from NOCH or Woodland Scenics.