7 Household Items You Can Use for Your Layout

By MRA Editors

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Disused Steamer Parts Made from Cotton Swabs
Street Light Armature Diffusors
Fall Protection Barriers for Hidden Tracks
Silos Made from Shampoo Bottles
Operational Hinges Made from Soda Cans
Realistic Tube Cargo Made from Straws
Make a Variety of Realistic Bushes with Kitchen Twine




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5 Responses to “7 Household Items You Can Use for Your Layout”

  1. Allan KAEHNE

    Looking for new ideas for my HO layout

  2. Lina Meissen

    I use strips of standard staples as railway station platforms, and as foundations for buildings or other structures that could benefit from being raised. They are a simple grey colour (or could easily be painted) and their length is easily adapted. A length of adhesive tape along the "cavity" of a staple strip keeps it intact.

  3. Edward Futrell

    tips send is more

  4. Ron

    Great ideas, the man from Sweden is great I watch his videos alot on you tube, very smart common sense man and modeler.

  5. Howard James Price

    I can use your videos to make things for an HO club layout.