This garden railroad modeler built a morse code signaling beacon for his layout driven by a Picaxe 08M. He shows you how to design it to either flash or sound out your desired messages. The builder also updated he article a few years back with a more hardware-friendly Microchip 16F684 PIC processor. Morse Code Beacon
Rod Stewart: model train geek? Who knew? Stewart contacted Model Railroader magazine last year, said he’d been a hobbyist for 20 years, and sent them pics of his layout. While he was on tour, he visited the magazine’s offices in Milwaukee. Stewart invited editors to come see his HO scale 23′ x 124′ layout in […]
On D+R, Mister Jalopy points us to the winners of the 2008 IPMS scale modeling contest in Stockholm, Sweden. I’ve been to some of these miniature and models contests and the models and dioramas are incomprehensibly detailed and expertly painted. Having spent years studying this artform (I used to run a sci-fi tabletop wargame modeling […]
How-to on building scenery for a slot car racing track. HOW-TO: Creating Professional Slot Car Scenery [via]
Hack n Mod has a round-up of useful information and how-tos related to Bondo, the wondrous auto body filler with hundreds of other uses. The Power of Bondo: A Comprehensive Tutorial
From the MAKE mailroom: I am working on a project but I’m missing some critical know-how on building models and I was wondering if you would be so kind as to impart some skills. The project is a water fountain. So far, I’ve come up with a couple of ideas on how to construct it, […]
