Making the Most of Your Model Railroad Structures
If you want your layout to feel like a living, breathing world, you really have to focus on your model railroad structures from the very beginning. It's one thing to have a high-end locomotive pulling a string of weathered coal hoppers, but if that train is passing by a row of pristine, "toy-like" plastic buildings, the illusion kind of falls apart. Buildings are what provide the context for your trains. They tell the viewer where we are, what year it is, and what the local economy is like. Without them, you've just got tracks on a table; with them, you've got a story. ...