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Air Drying Clay

Tips, tricks, and techniques for working with air-drying-clay plus guides to models made with it.

Making miniature pumpkins

Miniature pumpkins
Possibly one of the cutest miniatures I've made. [...]

How to make model sacks and sandbags

This cheap, quick and simple technique for making sandbags and sacks works for any scale and war game and requires little to now model making skills. [...]

Air Drying Clay: 7 Tips To Help Make Better Models, Easier and Faster

Tips for working with air-drying clay
Want to use air-drying clay for model making but put off by your first experiences with it? This is for you. [...]

A quick cheap way to make brick and stone walls

make you own stone work
Create realistic stone and brickwork walls and ground with this simple technique from a  professional model maker. [...]

Textured Rolling Pins – Useful for UK Model Railways?

Green Stuff World's textured rolling pins are a huge time saver for modelling stone and brick work in military modelling but can they be used for UK model [...]

How to make your own buildings

make your own model railway buildings
Looking to save money in the construction of your railway and want lovely buildings to complement your track and trains without the cost of buying pre-made [...]

The Clay Conundrum

Creating some of the buildings on my layout in Clay has caused me untold nightmares. But then über-model maker and photographer Chris Nevard came to the [...]