A Beginner's Guide to Creative Effects for your Model Railroad

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Author: Paul M. Newitt
With technical assistance by Kermit Paul, and scale sound assistance by Jim Wells.

Softcover, 2005, 8.5 x 11, 200 pages, over 500 black and white photographs, 65 diagrams, index.

Bring your model railroad to life with Creative Effects! Learn how to create lighting, animation and scale sound effects for your layout with Creative Effects, which can be used for all scales and by all skill levels!

Imagine your model railroad layout with lights, animations and sound! Imagine now how dynamic and functional it will become when YOU set the stage to operate trains within an animated scale world that will show off your favorite locomotive and rolling stock to their absolute best effect! You can effectively recreate your favorite time and place with these creative effects! Enhance the running of your trains through an entirely new world you yourself create to your precise specifications, all with the help of this imaginative book! It has ten great chapters to get you fully immersed in some of the best ways literally to bring your layout alive!

Ten chapters: Basic Electrical Track Effects Scenery Effects Sources Guide
Wiring and Soldering Animation Effects Theatrical Lighting
Lighting Effects Scale Sound Effects Remote Operation

Have you always wanted to make creative effects for your model raillroad, but didn't know how? Many off-the-shelf products in lighting, animation and sound are available and easy to operate. Well, welcome to the world of Creative Effects, which will show you how to work with lighting, animation and sound. This neat book will take you into a creative scale world that will meticulously guide you in the process of making the effects you have always wanted, perhaps even some you didn't know about or realize would be something you would want. What a difference these little creations can make. You will be surprised and delighted with their usefulness and practically, too! By then, you will be pleased to know that the knowledge you gained through Creative Effects has transformed your layout into an immersive scale environment that will give you much to admire! It is very satisfying to survey your own work in its most handsome environment!

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Two-and-a-half years of dedicated research has produced "A Beginner's Guide To CREATIVE EFFECTS For Your Model Railroad", an incredible 200-page book that describes how to use lighting, animation and sound, to create an immersive environment in any scale!
Written for all skill levels, this book describes basic electrical and wiring techniques followed by chapters on creative effects. Over 600 (b&w) photos and 65 diagrams highlight this book. More than 60 model railroad-specific products, as well as general hobby shop items are presented, with detailed instruction on how to use and operate; some in new ways to make "creative effects" for your layout.

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