Campbell Kit Building Ideas

Talented modelers have been building Campbell kits for near 50 years, so you'll find Campbell kits on old and new model railroad layouts and in dioramas all over the world. If you seen or come up with an idea or tip that will help you fellow modeler, please pass your information on to Campbell Scale Models Online and we'd love to post it on this page.

Valuable Tips and Information

• Information on: (1) Before you begin, (2) Wall sections & (3) Staining wood parts
• Making and using a Tie-Jig
• A Word on Weathering
• Painting, Gluing, and Weatherizing our Corrugated Roofs and Walls
• What glue should I use?
• Measuring Your Model's Windows
• Making a Shadow Box for your Diorama
• Decimal Equivalents
• Conversion Tables

Customer Built Campbell Kits

This section of the website hosts photos of customer built Campbell kits, along with their comments. So if you have a built a Campbell kit in the past for your layout or diorama, just take its photo, add your comments, and send your email to Tom Miller.

Go to the Customer Built Kits: Photos and Comments page.

Campbell Kit Building on the Net

• From our Woodshop
• What's in a Campbell Kit?
• Building the Matthews Mercantile by CWRailman
• Building the Branch Line Kit (1 of 3)
• Building the Branch Line Kit (2 of 3)
• Building the Branch Line Kit (Final of 3)
• Building Cattle Loading Pen