Buildings for model railways and model railroads
Scratchbuilt Buildings the Kirtley way: How to make model buildings and other structures from scratch in easy to follow stages, by Peter Smith of Kirtley Model Buildings. Peter Smith is a full time architectural model maker and master of his…
Bridges for Modellers by L. V. Wood provides an excellent resource for modellers on the subject of bridge architecture. Bridges for Modellers is not a how to guide for building a model bridge, rather a guide to the detailed construction…
Making Urban Buildings for Model Railways by David Wright is aimed at all those modellers who wish to create a model railway set in an urban landscape. Great words from a master of his craft. Easy to read and easy to…
Station Colours; Liveries used on railway buildings explained and illustrated by Peter Smith is intended to give accurate, easy to use information for those modelling and restoring railway structures. Peter Smith’s book is basically a hard copy vesrion of his website stationcolours.info and…
Modelling the British Rail Era: A guide to Modelling the classic Diesel and electric age, covers the period 1964 to 1994. Ian Fleming, Ken Gibbons, Steve Flint, and Jeff Taylor have combined to produce a modellers guide to the rail…
Making Rural Buildings for Model Railways by David Wright is an absolute gem covering the rural building in considerable detail, both researching the prototype and building the model. Essential reading for all those who are interested in developing their modelling…
If you are taking their first steps towards making your own model buildings Scratch Built Buildings from Paul Bason will be very informative. The book has easy to follow, step by step instructions that are well illustrated with pictures. There are…
Lineside Buildings by Paul Bason is part of the British Railway Modelling series of books and is generally a good primer to the model buildings commonly used by railway modellers. The book has a few drawbacks and needs updating, the…
Following on from Scenery this volume in the ‘Aspects of Modelling’ series looks deeper into the railway infrastructure and outlines Lineside buildings. Nigel Digby uncovers step by step instructions on the construction of some of the lineside buildings which feature…