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Ian Smith is an accomplished HO modeller who fell in love with Life Like's N-scale 2-8-8-2 and, at the price (approx $90 US), couldn't resist buying one and doing a great weathering job on it. I photographed it last night on the West-N-Trak layout in the clubrooms of the WA Branch of AMRA...

Australian hobby stores are just taking deliveries of the Life Like "Heritage" series 2-8-8-2 USRA Steam Locomotives. I work casually at a hobby store in Western Australia and I can tell you these beautiful little locos are real gems both in detail and performance! I had a couple on the...

On my "turning" module (where the tracks disappear through the backdrop and turn 180 degrees) I have the problem of how to disguise the great hole in the backdrop. This photo shows what I mean:-

It doesn't take long for a two year old to figure out how to operate Granddad's trains. Every visit to the train room now requires a run on the mainline by Thomas and friends.

Here is a shot of a friend's Kato Mikado (with Pennsy body from GHQ) I photographed on our local NTRAK club layout. I added the smoke/steam effects in PhotoShop. Gavin (I had to reduce the quality of the jpg to reduce the file size for acceptablity on The Gauge)

Here's how I do backdrops. I use templates to spraypaint clouds onto the blue "sky" background. It's called cloud painting for the "artistically challenged" he, heh (like me!!) I have found I can get MUCH more realistic looking cloud shapes by using these plastic templates than I ever...

Ray, Thanks for your feedback on my efforts. Appreciate your comments (in another thread). Starting a thread of my own, here's another photo taken adjacent to my intermodal terminal. The "National Rail Network Authority" (or RailNet) is the major owner/operator of railway assets in...