Building Realistic Model Railroad Scenery

This is far from the first scenery book from Model Railroader magazine's publisher, Kalmbach Media, but author Kathy Millatt brings a refreshing look at the subject matter.Millatt's style, honed on her YouTube channel, is one of teaching by experimentation, often using minimal sized dioramas as her sandbox, and showing her audience what works AND what doesn't. It's a very Bob Ross style of encouragement, to novice and old-timer alike, to not be afraid to think outside the box and try new things.In "Building Realistic Model Railroad Scenery," Millatt provides an amplified level of encouragement with a rich tapestry of examples from her own work, as well as several other well-known modelers - including retired hobby manufacturer George Sellios, author Pelle Søeborg, and YouTube scenery sensation Martin "of Sweden" Tärnrot, among many others.Because of the aforementioned teaching style and amazing examples in book, I strongly recommend this book to any and all hobbyists - and professionals - who need to build realistic scenery. Though aimed at model railroading, this material easily translates to military modeling, Warhammer 40k bases, dioramas, etc.Kathy Millatt did not disappoint with this reference book, and I expect it to live on my workbench more than in my bookcase in the coming years. BRAVA, Kathy!

Kathy is known for her incredible model work and this is a huge book that goes over a lot of important concepts for how to build realistic looking scenery. It's organized in an effective way as to show a lot of the techniques she uses as well as a lot of options for those who need guidance who are just getting into things. Cannot recommend enough.

I just received my copy of this book today and wasn't expecting much after seeing another review claiming the quality of the book's paper, cover, etc were substandard. Well, I'm happy to report that my copy of the book is exactly the same product quality as all of the dozens of other Kalmbach books I have in my library. Do not be scared away by a single review criticizing the book quality.Now, for the quality of the CONTENT of the book, what can I say besides, Oh Wow! This has to be one of the best model railroad scenery books on the market. Everything from planning, to tools, to materials, to techniques are covered in both well written text and accompanied by great photo examples of the process and the finished product. Excellent book and worth every penny of the list price!

Well written and informative, many detailed photos, high quality printing, good value.👍🏼

I'm a fan of Kathy's and love her work. The book she wrote is fantastic as are the photos. What I did notice was the poor physical quality of the book. Recently I bought Thomas Klimoski's book Building the Right Sized Layout and noticed the different in publisher quality. Thomas' book has a heavy duty paper cover, thicker pages and more glossy print. Much what I would suspect on a book like this. The publisher Kalmbach Media gave Kathy's book a cheap cover with fuzzy front page photo and thin, non-glossy pages. Most of the photographs were not high quality. Certainly get this book! Its the best scenery book I've seen since the legendary Dave Frary's book How To Build Realistic Model Railroad Scenery. Kathy's work is amazing! So are her videos. Highly recommend....just expect it not to last.

useful information

Lots of tips, tricks, and ideas on every page. I recommend it for anyone building a model railroad!

Good info and explains the how to aspects well.

Tengo muchos libros de este editor y en cuanto a escenografia, este es sin duda el mejor. Muchas y buenas fotos, tecnicas, trucos y no solo de la autora sino con ejemplos de otros modelistas. Muy bueno, lo recomiendo sin duda. Es tan bueno que solo echo en falta algunas fotos mas grandes aunque hubiese implicado hacer dos libros.

I bought this book as I was looking for a guide to building scenery just like the title says. There are German language books but the ones I found are dated and have not been revised for years.Having read this one here I personally see it more as a good read and compulsive tutorial about everything you need to know to make good scenery, but looking for a specific subject you have to browse through the pages to the right chapter.I was initially irritated when a chapter started about track ballasting, wondering where the track laying or electrics are, but that is the point. The book is about scenery and thats that. Do not expect a compendium on building a model railroad. Fair enough, it''s what it says on the title page.Having built a very large layout and startiung with a new one I still discovered new knowledge so I recommend this book not only for beginners but an experienced modeller will also find his fair share in this.The only critisism I have is, I wish someone would write something somewhere sometime about how to take care of your scenery when it gets dusty, old or loses it's color.Apart from that I highly recommend this book for anyone who is into building model railroad layouts. Its fun, it has great pictures and good explanations.

Found this really useful. Kathy goes to great lengths to explain not just what she suggests, but also why. Heavily biased on US layouts, and that's understandable given the market, but there's plenty for the UK modeller and I recommend it to anyone.

This book provides many ideas for building model railroads or dioramas. The emphasis is on simplicity and the use of items one can purchase at most hardware stores.

Recibido en palzo y perfecto