Building Contest Quality Structures

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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Does anyone know of any online resources with information, tips, guides on building contest quality structures for model railroads?

Thanks

John

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I would start with the articles on the NMRA website for there AP certificates. Here are three of there articles:

http://www.nmra.org/education/achievement/ms-mb-structures.html

http://www.nmra.org/education/achievement/ms-inspector.html

http://www.nmra.org/education/achievement/pdf/mmr_structure.pdf

Chris

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Chris,

Great idea! I had not thought about the NMRA website. Some good reading ahead.

Thanks

John

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Go to model railroad forums site at mrrforums.com, some of the best hang out there and are always willing to give advice, member hail from all over the world, tell them rebel sent you

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Thanks Chris. I am actually a member there. I’ll try that as well.

John

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Railroad Line Forums is devoted to craftsman construction and weathering. A tremendous amount of scratchbuilding and craftsman kit construction.

http://www.railroad-line.com/

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HI John -

I may be a bit late to the party, if so, please forgive. In addition to the great resources mentioned above, here are some other resources for learning how to build contest quality structure models:

Scotty Mason has a great line of DVDs on bulding craftsman structure kits.

FOS Scale Models also has several DVDs devoted to building structures.

And The Modeler’s Guild is a web site frequented by folks who enjoy detailed structure modeling.

Please note, I am not affiliated with any of these folks, nor do I have any interest whatsoever in their enterprises. I’m offering these only as a resource.

Hope this helps!