{"product_id":"9781847973405","title":"Making Model Railway Buildings","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis invaluable book is essential reading for all railway modellers, whatever their level of expertise. The author provides an overall understanding of the purpose of making buildings for a model railway and covers their construction, their positioning and how to light them. Topics covered include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRailway and non-railway model buildings, explaining how the latter can also enhance your trains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModelling attitudes, the use of scale, levels of detail and both regional vernacular and railway architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReady-made buildings that you can buy and demonstrates how you can adapt them to your own particular purposes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDifferent materials available for building structures and ways of choosing, finding, measuring and recording suitable prototypes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStep by step construction of a cardboard building kit to illustrate the use of basic modelling tools and to explain essential procedures and techniques.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing and modifying 'out-of-the-box' model buildings and explores the subtleties of making model railway buildings from scratch without the use of a kit, or anything more than hand-tools and a few sheets of suitable material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuidance on the appropriate use of texture and colour, and shows how walls, doors, windows, roofs and chimneys can be created, painted, detailed and finished off.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany aspects of lighting, including external lighting, such as street and platform lights, and the internal lighting of buildings, the problems they pose and how they can be resolved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Crowood Press UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050628301040,"sku":"9781847973405","price":37.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781847973405_p0.jpg?v=1769895074","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781847973405","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}