Model Railway

Information about model railways

G-Scale building for garden model railway - part 3 - Adding a roof and other features

In this final part of the design for a 3D printed model railway building I've added additional features such as the door, windows and roof as well as adding a smoke generator.These were all designed in TinkerCAD. These are designed ...

G-Scale building for garden model railway - part 2 - TinkerCAD code blocks

This is an update on my first outdoor model railway building created using a 3D printer.In the first version of the model railway building I created the building in several different parts, in this version I have decided on just ...

TinkerCAD 3D Snowman for 3D printing G-Scale model railway

This is a model that I've made using TinkerCAD. A snowman designed for 3D printing on a home 3D printer. It's been created to approximate G-Scale (1:22.5) for outdoor model railways. It's also hollow so that you can insert an ...

The rules for building a model railway

There are many different misconceptions about creating model railways and the people that are involved. I'd therefore like to start by dispelling some of these myths and explaining what I think that model railways is about. The 3 Golden Rules ...

Model Railway - designing a G-Scale building for an outdoor model railway in the garden - part 1

This is my first attempt at creating a proper scale model for 3D printing. In this case I am creating a weigh building in G-Scale. This has been a huge learning curve. I've since learned from some of the issues ...