Category: Tools
Airbrush Acrylic Primer And Paint
The other day a reader posted a question here regarding acrylic paints and airbrush use, here’s that question: I was just going back over a previous article (Waterfront Project | Part 5) in the Waterfront Project series and noticed the info about using acrylic craft paint in an airbrush. Does that paint, thinned the same [...]
The BUG Photo Etch Bending Tool
My Z scale tool arsenal is very basic, really about as fancy as I get is my resistance soldering unit. I now have a new favorite tool on my workbench… the “BUG” made by The Small Shop. Conceptually it’s a remarkably simple little device in that it allows you to make clean, precise bends in [...]
Z Scale Clearance Gauges
It doesn’t come up every day but it most definitely does come up: how big should my tunnel portal be, how much height do I need under a bridge, why didn’t I think of train clearance before I built my layout? It’s really unfortunate when someone builds a scene and only then realizes they can’t [...]
The Grassinator
The Ztrains Grassinator is the handheld static grass applicator that can add upright static grass to your layout and add an amazing amount of realism quickly and easily. When we moved to our new site here at Ztrains.com we had to pull a lot of our articles offline in order to rework them for this [...]
Ztrains Scratchbuilder’s Calculator
Here’s a tool that can help you establish and maintain scale accuracy when scratchbuilding your next Z scale building, piece of rolling stock or pine tree. To show you how this calculator works, let’s say you wanted to know how large a 75′ prototypical tree would be in Z scale. Step 1: At the top [...]
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