Category: News
2012 Z Scale Convention Diorama
Hard to believe it’s already been 2 years since the last National Z Scale Convention in Medford, Oregon but here it comes again! This time the convention will be held in Denver, Colorado, May 4 and 5th, 2012. For the Medford convention in 2010, Micro-Trains asked if I would build a diorama as a special [...]
Trainini Magazine
Latest Issue: January 2012 Trainini Magazine is a German language, monthly Z scale magazine in PDF format and it’s free! Hard to beat that. Each issue link will open in a new window for easy reading. Don’t worry if you don’t read German (but good for you if you do!) as the photos tell the [...]
Kronenberger Grant For Z Scale Promotions
In January of 2007, Z scale lost a friend and promoter, Bill Kronenberger. Bill was a consummate promoter of Z scale, actively attending shows, establishing the Z-Bend Track standards, educating Z scalers and sharing his passion. To honor Bill’s memory, we have created the ‘Kronenberger Grant For Z Scale Promotions’. The goal of this grant [...]
Win A FOS Scale Models DVD
We have our FOS Scale Models DVD Winner: Jim Cleland In this DVD Bob Mitchell shares some of his techniques for building model railroad structures that are easy to replicate and will improve the overall look of your models. While you may have seen some of the steps before, Bob employs his own methods in [...]
Z-Panzer | K5 Railgun
In these interview articles I generally ask the questions and the interviewee answers, but for this article I asked Andy Hart of Z-Panzer to talk directly to our readers and share a bit of the thought, design and production processes that went in to this magnificent Z scale model. These photos were shot in low [...]
RSLaser Kits
Over the past few years we’ve seen the rise of desktop, midsized and large format laser cutters making their way into the hands of Z scale kit designers. Machines that once would have been completely out of reach for the small business owner are now being used to create the modestly priced kits most of [...]
Lance Mindheim Book Drawing
July 2011 Special: Lance Mindheim Book Drawing! We have our three winners in the Ztrains July Book Drawing featuring “How To Design A Small Switching Layout”. Eileen Clark, Dave Mummery and Paul Nichols are our lucky winners! Congratulations to you three and we’d like to thank everyone who entered! Hmmm, what should we give away [...]
Rokuhan Comes To Z Scale
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the new company in Z scale, Rokuhan of Japan. The talk has been centered around their new track system. Visually this system has the basic look of Micro-Trains Micro-Track and KATO Unitrack but with a much wider tie spacing, reminiscent of the Marklin tie spacing. A major [...]
Micro-Trains Line Reissues The F7
Micro-Trains Line is reissuing their popular F7 diesel locomotive, both the A and B units. We got in touch this morning with Ben Thielemann, Marketing Director at Micro-Trains, to ask a couple of quick questions on the reissued F7s. On some of the Z scale user forums, we’ve heard that the MTL F7 locomotive is [...]
AZL Budd RDC-1 Cars
I always get excited when a new piece of motive power is released in Z scale, it’s a great indicator of where 1:220 is headed. Today AZL released their new Budd RDC-1 Car in 4 roadnames: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (ATSF), Western Pacific (WP), Canadian Pacific (CP) and Southern Pacific (SP). Highlights of this [...]
