DIY Micro Dolly

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DIY Micro Dolly
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This is an easy dolly to make for you next video project. The final results are really good, especially for just using some model railroad tracks. Make sure to check out the sample videos on the website.

I made my first attempt at a micro dolly today. I want to use it to shoot miniatures for the “Combat” video. I started with HO scale which ended up being way to small and unstable. The camera wanted to fly off the track. I took it all back to the hobby store and supersized it up to O scale. It ended up looking like this:

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