We’d all love to hear about what you’re up to in the hobby. But think more than just text – post pictures, and yes, even some videos. We’ve recently simplified the imageposting process, so it’s pretty easy. Just watch this video to see how to do it:
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How about posting a video on our website? Video hosting takes a lot of bandwidth and dedicated servers to do it right, so the best approach is to post your video on YouTube, Blip.tv, or Vimeo – and then come drop your video inline into a post. Putting your video inline allows others visiting the MRH website to watch
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your video right there in your post without ever leaving our website. Putting a video into your post is also quite easy, just watch the Posting a video on the MRH site to see how.
In this issue Our cover story this month is M.C. Fujiwara’s The Joys of Kids and Model Railroading. When we saw M.C.’s submission we just knew it had to be a cover story. Now if you find someone complaining there are few youngsters in in the hobby, send them over to read this article, and ask them how many kids they’re helping get more involved in the hobby. Tom Patterson shows us how to build a nice-looking diesel fuel tank facility, so you have no excuse for not being able to fuel your diesels now. Bruce Petty discusses a great prototype for a layout, along with giving you a track plan for a 9 x 11 spare room, with plenty of ideas for trains and rolling stock to populate it. Jerry Boudreaux demonstrates how he helps visiting engineers to his layout quickly figure out what’s where in his Modeler’s Workbench piece, Station Strips. And of course, we continue Mike Confalone’s fabulous St. Regis paper mill scene modeling article in this issue. In part 2, Mike uses more novel tricks in modeling this scene.
Also, we remind you that Mike sent us almost three hours of video, which was too much for the magazine, so we’ve released it as a feature video for purchase that’s a whopping 3 hours long. Early feedback from those who’ve watch the video is it’s a “don’t miss” addition to your model railroading how-to library.
May 2012
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Building a diesel fuel tank extras: Bruce Petrarca’s popular DCC column continues this issue with a great over Fuel level graphic / spreadsheet view of all the pieces-parts that go into Click here to access a DCC system. We’re all pretty DCCsavvy on the MRH staff, but we even learned a thing or two from Bruce’s column this month. Layout tours – Trackwork – Struc-
tures – News – Track Planning – Benchwork – Electronics – Narrow Gauge – Humor – Contrarian Opinions – New techniques – DCC – ModJohn Drye, our N-scale columnist, takes ular modeling – Modeling water – Roads – Ballast – Multi-deck dea breather this month, and our guest signs – Small layouts – Weathering columnist David Salsbery talks about single-track N scale modular railroading. – First looks – Rolling stock – Signals – Curvature guidelines – Clickable And finally we have our MRH Product ad links – Video – Operation – ProShowcase photo gallery and many pagtotype modeling – Lighting – MRH es of new product news, loaded with photos – making our news section one forum – Interactive reader feedback – Questions Answers and Tips – Upof the best of any hobby publication. coming event listings – Tunnel linEnjoy! ers – Building signs – Modeling the Modern Era – Critters – The Scenery Scene – Painting equipment – Rolling stock tuning – The Tool Reader Shed – Layout owner interviews – Feedback Show floor coverage – Static grass (click here) guns – Kitbashing – LED lighting – Scratch building – Highway stripes Tony Thompsons does the Getting Real column this month, going in-depth on the developing trend toward more-prototypical car routeing paperwork.
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