Wiley's Bench Time - Model Railroading Podcast

This is the last episode of the Bench Time Podcast of the Spring of 2019, because next week will be the first day of SUMMER! We dive into a very wide range of topics on this week's show and cover a few of our Patron questions as well. One of the questions was so good and we knew was FULL of content to talk about that we picked it as the main topic for this week's episode! Quick housekeeping points...

This is our first mid-week Model Building Toolbox Talk where one of us will just record some short thoughts, tips, or stories of our model building experiences. These can range from new ideas, errors you can all avoid, tips, new things, really whatever we want!  And they'll all be in digestible 5-10 minute bites. This week Brett introduces the new part of the show and talks about his new endeavor...

For week 78 of the Bench Time Model Railroading Podcast we have a guest favorite on! Jason Jensen jumps on this week’s show for an awesome discussion on how we’re starting to see everyone SHARING MORE online with each other. We have more and more model railroaders sharing more of their work and progress online. There are more and more model railroaders creating pages and groups to document the pro...

It's almost summer! So on this nice Friday evening how about you settle in at your workbench and get ready for another installment of the Bench Time Model Railroading Podcast! This week we didn't have a guest (we will have guests upcoming on the next few episodes, and they're going to be awesome!!), so we spent some time this week giving out Patrons the show and letting them ask us whatever they w...

What a pleasure it was to get Tom Barbalet of Model Rail Radio on our show to get a little bit of the history of his show and the story behind how he was able to grow Model Rail Radio into the show it is today!  Tom went into his background a bit and he also gave us a great bit of info on how his show has grown into a worldwide hit for modelers and model railroaders all over! You can check out the...

It’s memorial day weekend, so let’s first take a moment to remember all of the fallen service men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the US Military. Thank you. This week on the Bench Time Podcast we’ve got a pair of guests, Jake Johnson and Dave Meek who together have formed Crescent Creek Models which specializes in innovative laser-cut structure kits for the discerning model rail...

It's getting warmer out, and we LOVE this late-spring weather! So welcome to another episode of the Bench Time Podcast with Brett & Todd Wiley. To start this week we talk about Brett's current candy that he's been munching on and go on a bit of a food rant. After that's out of the way, we go over Todd's ITLA build, Brett's Wicked Wanda's wrap-up (post 100 miler run), and a little bit on how Brett...

Well, this week’s episode of the Bench Time Podcast was ALL over the place. We talked a little bit about everything and there is a lot to cover in this week’s show. We started out with an off-topic discussion on the little known players in the NHL who actually wear the number 73, except for one player. But he’s on the Bruins so we don’t care. Next, Brett started talking about his weathering and ru...

It’s the first Friday of May and it’s finally getting warm out! LOVE this time of year! This week on the bench time podcast with Todd & Brett Wiley we have fellow modeler, kit instruction writer and fan of the show Dave Kruiswyk on to talk some shop about what he’s working on currently. We are all over the place on this episode and we cover our current builds, some of the kits and projects that Da...

Hey, we all love Friday's! And I think as model railroaders and modelers, we all love to collect tools! We were inspired by everybody's photo comments of their favorite tools from last week's contest so we decided to dedicate an entire episode to tools and our favorite ones.  Well they're all our favorites. Kind of our own little toy collection... I mean tool collection.  This week Todd and Brett...

This is Episode 70 of the Bench Time Podcast with Brett & Todd Wiley! Episode number two of the week resumes our normal schedule and it’s just us again this week, BUT that doesn’t mean we aren’t having a BLAST with it. This week we get into a quick recap of the Mini-Con and Clinics day we went to last weekend and then we transition into some of the Patron Questions of the week. If you’re intereste...

BONUS THURSDAY EPISODE: Listen in from our fun day out at the Mini-Con and Clinics day at the Blue Ridge Summit Fire Hall last Saturday. We met a TON of listeners and we had an overall great time with the entire event. We’ll definitely be heading back there next year! This is an awesome mini-con that offers a ton of great small clinics and hands-on opportunities for all of the attendees and the be...

Todd and Brett are live today kicking it old-school with just us two. We go over Patron Questions and really go deep into the patron topics this week as we spend a lot of time talking about scratch building, kitbashing, scratchbashing, and more! We’ve also got the pics [at the bottom] of what we’re talking about, you can check them out below or hit up our website if they’re not displaying in your...

It's the first Friday of April and we're pumped that it's finally starting to look a little more "springy" outside. It's almost time to start enjoying the warmer weather.  But that's not why we're excited about Friday's, we're looking forward to sharing our newest episode of the Bench Time Model Railroading Podcast with you! And this week we have Renée and Nick from ITLA Scale Models. ITLA Scale M...

It’s another fine Friday for all of our Fine Scale Modelers out there because we’ve got another episode lined up for you. Quick note: If you want to get updates on all of our new YouTube videos, click this link to check out our newest videos and subscribe to our channel: https://youtube.com/hoscalecustoms?sub_confirmation=1 This week we’re happy to have Ron Klaiss of Mine Mount Models on to talk a...

Legendary Guests Dave Frary and Hal Reynolds. 50 plus yrs of friendship and world-class model railroading This week we blow the doors off the barn and bring you two model railroad legends.  Dave Frary and Hal Reynolds! They both are not only scenery masters in this hobby, but pioneers, technique geniuses, and great close personal friends for well over 50 years.    They share so many incredible sto...

What a great time we had on this week’s podcast with Doug Foscale and Frank Varga, getting them on the show to just talk about how each of them builds and how their creative minds work to make what they do, was just amazing & fun. The best part of this interview was getting the creative mind of Doug Foscale, who spends an amazing amount of time and effort to create his unique craftsman kits to tal...

It’s Friday so that means it’s time for your weekly dose of the finest fine scale modeling podcast around! On episode #63 of the Bench Time Model Railroading podcast, we had the awesome opportunity to talk to Rick & Maureen of Hunterline.com. Hunterline has been in the model railroading industry since 1994 and they pride themselves on their amazing craftsman-quality prototype wooden bridges and tr...

The weekend is finally here and so is March!  Episode 62 of the Bench Time Podcast we have with us special guest Mark Schreier of Foggy Mountain Models Craftsman Kit Structures !  Mark shares with us a bit of insight into the makings of On3 and O scale craftsman kits which Foggy Mountain Models is known for and he tells us a lot about how they can be detailed out to look super realistic just like...

On Episode 61 of the Bench Time Modeling Podcast we were very excited to bring to you someone that Todd met at the Fine Scale Modeling Expo in 2018 who paints amazing detail parts. He even led one of the clinics there on the subject! Vilius Bileisis is a very accomplished model builder and he's been working with craftsman kits for quite a long time. His work extends much farther beyond the detail...

It’s Friday fellow fine scale freaks!   So that means another episode of the Bench Time Podcast!  Number 60 to be exact! And this weekend we give you a mish-mash of everything!  We start by answering questions from our listeners on a host of different fine-scale subjects, and we go off on a tangent of everything else from there!   Yep! Being kept up inside for the Winter has about taken its toll o...

It's time for another Bench Time Model Railroading podcast with Todd & Brett, and this week we spend a good deal of time talking about how we make our roads and sidewalks. Recently we featured two live videos on Facebook that covered both of these topics and you can find them here:  HO Scale Customs LIVE video on roads Model Railroading sidewalk how-to tutorial You can thank Brock, an Instagram fo...

We’re about a week away from starting the live build of Pop’s General Store, so what better timing than now to talk to Kenny Crump of KC’s Workshop and Jason Jensen about the kit that we’ll all be building together over the next several weeks?!?! We start out this week’s episode by answering some questions from our Patrons of the Overtime at the Bench - HO Scale Customs group, and out patrons thre...

This late January episode of The Bench Time Podcast we spend some time answering our listener's questions and from two of them, we get into the subject of glues and the nightmares associated with some of the glue bottles we use when we do our model building. Get your hands on Pop's General Store to build with us for the LIVE Build! Link: KC's Workshop - Pop's General Store - ENTER CODE: HOCUSTOMS...

What’s up fine scale fam!  This cold and nasty weekend brings us to Episode 56 of the Bench Time Podcast: and we have joining us as guests Brian and Jill Bollinger of BEST Trains and besttrains.com .  Our shows first ever husband and wife team and they tell us all about their wide variety of some outstanding pewter castings for detailing our dioramas, structures and layout scenes and bring them to...