if you want to know how to save money while you're building your model
railroad you're gonna want to see this did I hear somebody saved budget I'm Tom
Kvichak and this is Toms Trains and Things this channel was created to help
other modelers who are in need of guidance in pursuing their dream of
building a model railroad and I'm gonna give you ten ways that you could save
money while you're building your model railroad if this is your first time here
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with this right now with number one the first way to save money while working on
your model railroad is to buy at train shows you can get a lot of good bargains
at train shows and the earlier you go the better the bargains that you get
Debbie used to tell me to go to church sales and garage sales and go there a
half an hour an hour early and wait in line and I always wondered why well
because you get in there and get with all them people and they fight over all
that stuff and get in there and get all the good stuff before everybody else
gets it so that's the first one go there early to the train shows number two
you're gonna find a lot of things at thrift stores that you never thought
that you could use on your model railroad in fact about three or four
years ago I found an entire collection of somebody who must have passed away
and their wife just unloaded it at a thrift store I got about four
locomotives a lot of buildings in fact some of the buildings are here on my
layout I got all kind of good stuffs really cheap and not only model railroad
related but tools I got a tripod at Bogan tripod it's
worth a couple hundred dollars I got for $9 at a thrift store because they didn't
know the value of it a lot of times these people at the thrift stores
know the value of some of them do some of them don't and wall warts
you know these wall warts that I've been showing you it well if you don't like
doing electrical projects and you want to get the wall warts some of them go as
far as categorizing them put them in little plastic containers according to
voltage for 50 cents apiece so there's your power for your model
railroad at thrift store number 3 clearance isles at your local Hobby Lobby
A C Moore Jo Anns Michaels any one of those stores even Walmart you could get
paint I don't know how many of those little tubes of paint that I got some of
them I got for as low as twenty-nine cents they're odd colors but they still
work as far as scenery goes you can get some really good stuff there and I
always shop there I get all my paint brushes there they seem I got a gallon
of Elmer's glue for something like 17 bucks and a Seymour I think was even
less than that but anyway at the clearance Isles for these places and I
told you about the Just Plugs these things here okay I got this one apart
right now but anyway I got this one for I think that the hub for $3.59 and I got
all those LEDs these things right here they normally go for $9.99 for two
dollars and 59 cents number-four garaad's sales you can get a
lot of stuff at garage sales in fact I got a shovel hanging up on the wall it's
a coal shovel I got that at a garage sale the guy didn't even have it out
selling it because he had some other stuff selling I asked him if he had any
other railroad related stuff and he said sure I got this I got that and I got
some other good stuff and not this one here you could get tools I've got a lot
of these clamps at garage sales from people that didn't want them anymore
I bought an entire N Scale layout that had
more turnouts in the boxes that came with the layout and there was on the
layout itself and there was about 20 on the layout itself I mean I had over 40
turnouts between what was on the layout and and I only paid like $95 for it at a
garage sale so you can find a lot of good stuff at garage sales number five
now this one you got to be careful with eBay and Craigslist you could find some
good stuff on both of them but you have to be very knowledgeable you have to do
your research when you're buying there otherwise you're gonna get burnt you
have to know what you're doing you have to know what you're talking about and
you have to know the products and you have to read all the little things about
the shipping on it also because a lot of times you can get something real cheap
and the shipping will cost you three or four times what the product cost you so
you have to beware but you get some good stuff on there in fact if you're looking
for projects electronic projects or anything else on eBay you could get
hundreds of transistors hundreds of resistant for pennies I mean I got on
this Just Plug board right here they have a transistor on there that I looked
up and they were selling them on eBay now it's on a slow boat from China it
takes two to three weeks to get them but a hundred of those transistors the
SMD versions of them for two dollars and sixty eight cents a hundred of them so
you could find some good stuff on there but you could get burnt on it also so be
careful number six make your own lighting just like I said with the the
Just Plugs okay I bought a lot of stuff at Hobby Lobby on a discount sixty
percent seventy five percent seventy percent discount at Hobby Lobby and I
figured out how to do it by the parts and you got your instant lighting build
your own lighting things you could I have so many
videos out there showing you how to solder how to use LEDs how to figure out
what resistors to use with LEDs you can make your own lighting you can make your
own effects with lighting to that I'm gonna go into with Arduino number seven
scratch build your buildings it doesn't take a lot to scratch build in fact you
can define cheap items all over your house that you could use for scratch
building Vinny Susseto uses for sale signs that he
gets at Home Depot or Ace Hardware for his styrene projects and you could do
the same thing years ago when people didn't have the supplies that's how they
did it they found things around the house to build their buildings from a
lot of people just use that stuff to make cutouts for just to see where the
buildings are gonna go but you could even make your buildings out of that
card stock that heavy cardstock and draw right on it and do make your own
buildings out of anything that you could find around the house number eight your
scenery you could make your own scenery outside dirty dirt there's trees there's
leaves that you could crunch up in a blender there's foam that you could use
from packing that you get your supplies from and grind it up in a blender and
use that as a ground cover there's an unlimited amount of things that you
could use for your scenery from stuff that you get around the house all my
scenery the the the base that I use was it froze from cardboard boxes I just
sliced them up and put them together with a hot glue gun and that made the
form for the scenery of my mountains the plaster cloth here's some that I got the
wooden hood Scenic's plaster cloth that I got at Hobby Lobby 4 or 4 dollars and
31 cents but if you can't find it that cheap you can always use paper towel and
diluted plaster of Paris like we used to do 30 years ago when there wasn't any
plaster cloth or the only place that you can get plaster cloths was in a hospital
for where there was making the cast number nine buy in bulk every piece of
roadbed I have on my railroad is quarter inch cork underlayment I bought it in
bulk it comes in four foot wide 80 foot rolls now in here I don't know if it's
anywhere else but the Home Depot here will only sell it by the roll but they
used to sell it by the foot and that is a lot better than buying these little
strips here now granted you could bend these a little bit around the curve you
know once you take these apart how much do you pay for this compared to buying a
whole roll of cork or just how many feet that you need I think I did my whole
layout with about 25 foot of cork and you can't tell the difference because
your ballast over the stuff anyway the only time that you could tell the
difference is before you put the ground cover down so buy in bulk the same thing
with your electronic projects if you're doing any kind of electronic projects on
here for LEDs for transistors for resistors buy them in bulk it's cheaper
that way number 10 repurpose your items I have a static grass applicator that I
made myself from one of those electronic fly swatters and a little strainer it
cost about 6 bucks altogether and how much did they cost in
the store 35 $40 for the same thing that's something two things that you can
repurpose into make a one little tool a lot of modelers use hairspray on their
models especially on the trees to finalize their things and what I found
is to use the pump type ones instead of the aerosol because you could use them
over once you're finished with the hairspray you could either put alcohol
in here or water in here for your scenery and it has a much finer mist
than those spray bottles that you have to pump that you get from
the hardware store or from WS these are much better a much better spray on them
a finer spray on them and you can put anything in here I use them for alcohol
and water and diluted glue on here also a lot of the things I mentioned in here
I just went over real quickly for you so I could go into better detail in other
videos coming up soon about how to do things on a budget I hope you were able
to get some good tips on saving money on your model railroad this is how I've
been doing it for a long time and I try to save as much money as I can whenever
possible on my model railroad so I think it's a good idea that you could do the
same thing there's a lot of good tips in here that I've given you to save money
on your model railroad and I hope you could save money too so we'll see ya
next time
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