During this month’s Track Talk Live, Leah and Doug announced Model Railroad Academy’s new community gallery. We want to see your layout! Show off your work with the Model Railroad Academy community by sharing photos of your layout.
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July’s Track Talk Live featured MRA’s Steve Doyle and Doug Hodgdon in a lively hour of questions and answers on many facets of model railroading, including layout building, roadbed and track-laying, intermodal operations, DCC installation and weathering. Viewers from as far away as Australia, the United Kingdom and Ireland engaged in multi-scale discussions with the…
Watch Now >>N-Scalers took center stage on the latest Track Talk Live with MRA Editor Steve Doyle and model railroad expert, Doug Hodgdon. Responding to a host of questions submitted live, Steve and Doug discussed DCC, speaker baffles for sound, adding weight to improve traction, track cleaning devices and even creating custom liveries and logos for our…
Watch Now >>Check out the recap of our monthly Track Talk Live with model railroad expert and long-time train enthusiast Doug Hodgdon. Doug answers your model railroad questions live on the air in this fun, interactive, and informative Q&A.
Watch Now >>Taking Track Talk Live on the road again, Model Railroad Academy’s Doug Hodgdon (“Clickety”) and Steve Doyle (“Clack”) visited the 129-year old St. Louis Park Depot in Minnesota, which once served the Milwaukee Road, and learned more about its preservation as a National Register of Historic Places site. In the monthly live event, they also…
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Ticket 27322‬ Question for session: I’ve heard about a new NMRA “animation” standard being developed. Is there anything posted yet or ways industry can contribute/cooperate?
Do you know how to thin the artist’s acrylic paints (i.e. Artist’s Loft brand) for use in an airbrush? I’ve heard that this can be done and I’ve tried to thin the paint with 70% alcohol, but I can’t seem to get the right consistency.
Hi Dave. I haven’t had much luck using thinned acrylic artist paints for airbrushing. I recommend you try Scalecoat II.
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Douglas-Model Railroad Academy
I want to get back into my N scale design what is a proper degree to go uphill to keep from having engine slip or no want to go. Im limited on room so up was a way to go