Tim O'Connor wrote: "Method #5 - plastic self adhesive tape from an electronic label maker - easier to apply than the bare metal foil and can be stretched a little if necessary. Easily cut into

RE: Method #5 - plastic self adhesive tape from an electronic label maker - easier to apply than the bare metal foil and can be stretched a little if necessary. Easily cut into shapes (gusset plates

Weights and lead shot -- I started thinking (always dangerous). Smallest shot packs more densely. It follows that lead powder would be densest of all. Turns out that lead powder is used to add

Steel wool takes a lot of the shine off which makes paint adhesion better. I think years ago I tried painting an unscuffed trim with Accupaint with 30 percent added auto finish supply shop's universal

As New Zealand’s population was so small, it did not have its own vehicle manufacturers, so vehicle were either shipped here complete or partially disassembled, crated, transported by rail and then

Does it take paint well? Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

On some X29 models, I applied strips of 0.005-inch styrene. It's exaggerated but does show up. Tony Thompson tony@...

Andy Cool! I'd never heard of this before. I see 5" x 36" sheets for sale for $2.99 - from an actual hobby shop! :-D

2) archer weld line decals (Bill W's favorite way right now) Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL NO, the Decals Bruce is referring are Archer's Aircraft Panel Lines that I use to represent weld lines.

Or equally useful, the very thin polymer peel & stick product, Monokote Trim. An RC item which I am constantly finding plenty of uses for it. Sticks well and holds rivet impressions. It is available

David, Look again, the journal lids are open, not missing. That's because this is a hump and journals were oiled as the car passed over the hump. He is applying a route card to the route card tack

Schuyler, I have a model of a brand new "cargo tank" loaded TOFC for delivery to local dealer. Photos show many new tanks delivered by rail. Mont Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Could B&W be the receiving company? Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

Given that a journal is clearly missing its lid, I’d say he’s tacking a Bad Order card to get that fixed. David Soderblom Baltimore MD USA drs@...

Before anybody gets really annoyed at Bruce for number two. He meant archer panel line decals. Archer also makes weld line decals which are meant for armor guys and you definitely don’t want to use

Method #5 - plastic self adhesive tape from an electronic label maker - easier to apply than the bare metal foil and can be stretched a little if necessary. Easily cut into

Mel, There are at least 4 approaches that I know of: 1) Clear (thick) decal film 2) archer weld line decals (Bill W's favorite way right now) 3) etched metal appliques (I've done this. It's not easy

clear decal film, as a representation? mel perry

With a little help from PHOTOSHOP and a left-right merge tool - not a perfect splice but pretty close. -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Tim, Absolutely an issue. Patch panels begin to appear in significant numbers in the 1950s. No plans for Rapido to do them at this time, but as we noted in discussions at the modeling meet, patch