I've weathered HO and N gauge track but never Lionel O gauge FasTrack. How hard can it be? Well for a first try I guess it will work, especially because th...

No one at Branson Hobby Center is as big a GoT fan as I am. It goes without saying that just as soon as we saw Metal Earth was producing GoT kits I would ha...

As a member of the Missouri Ozarks Scale Specialist model club I know that most members have been completing lots of models while staying home. I too got a ...

People come into our store and ask if we have done anything to our model train layouts recently. The answer is usually not much but a week ago I got it in m...

The Traxxas nitro 4-Tec is still a fun RC on-road car even if Traxxas discontinued it. After sitting unused for a couple of years I decided to get one of mi...

I love F-16s

During the recent Covid orders I took the time to get some Metal Earth kits I had started LONG ago finished. I had been hoping that these would somehow put t...

I have a large board permanently set up where I can test locomotives in N, HO, S, O, and G gauge. It works great but the G-gauge test track was the only one...

Last year, 2019, was the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing. To celebrate I decided to build the Metal Earth lunar lander kit. But... this is not the ea...

Ever since we started stocking the Metal Earth monster truck kits here at Branson Hobby Center I have thought they were awesome and wanted to build one. Rec...

Hobby Rusty had me load up for R/C swap meet in Springfield a couple Saturdays ago and... well you can't leave a swap meet without bringing something home. T...

Until recently I had never built a model of a big rig. I decided to change that. It wasn't as easy as I anticipated. I learned a lot along the way. If yo...

A home for my mother.

Hobby Frank here! Occasionally I get to do a build for a customer, these are Walther's HO scale Heavy Forklifts actually manufactured by Kibri. The kit is d...

I recently finished another Polar Lights Yellow Submarine Beatles figure, that of John. Here are a couple of photographs.

Its hard to believe out of my 40 odd years of model building this was my first piece of armor. The Tamiya kit of the Gama Goat was typical of their line, gre...

How hard can it be to drill a hole? If it is in paper thin basswood... Okay so I broke the floor out of my under construction N-gauge building, now what? ...

I'm sure you all have forgotten about me by now but, I'm still alive and kicking! I have no excuses but laziness for not posting... I'll try to do better. T...

Learn from my mistake, always check your track before running your trains. I feel really stupid for this but I ran a train despite my having removed a bridg...

Just wanted to finish a figure models so I chose the easiest one in my model stash. #PolarLights #Beatles