A really clear view of the truss rod boxcar and note that the roof only has seam paint, the panels have lost their paint”

I have tried using Mek and Mek pak (the leading UK brand of "safe" methyl ethyl ketone) l find l work too slowly for either to work for me, they flash off before l get my brush to the work. Everyone

There are a series of pictures of gondolas being unloaded and their drop bottoms open: https://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Emil-Albrecht-Photos/1948-Nov-Cache-Local/i-h7CJ5Zn/A Gary

Or just shave down the match sticks, just as the real loggers shaved down poles till they fit. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Why bother with matchsticks when scale lumber is readily available? Brian J. Carlson

I just measured a few samples from a box of Diamond Kitchen matches, they vary between .085 and .100 with most being about .094. .094 would approximate an 8 x 8 (actual dimension is about 8.17 scale

Copy into Word. Replace all multiple spaces with single spaces. Replace spaces with commas or tab. Paste Special into Excel. I used Libre office which is a little harder, but still fairly quick.

Todd Sullivan wrote: Very well said, Todd. My thoughts exactly. Tony Thompson tony@...

Scott, Another way to answer your question is that the white stuff under the door opening is not typical weathering for this kind of car. You could weather a model with all the other aspects of

Hi Scott, From photos that I have seen of NP "green hide" cars, only one was a 50 footer, and that was an old single sheathed single door car. NP 6536 in the photo may have been hauling bagged

I noticed the side door of the boxcar was opened as well as a side window of the bus. Once watched my car being parked in a Manhattan garage. The cars were parked so close together the attendants

MEK doesn't lose potency. I have a half gallon that is at least 20 years old and it still works quite well. I pour from the larger can into a small glass bottle with a brush attached to the lid. The

I use technical grade methylene chloride for very fast bonding and MEK when I need a few seconds of working time. Methylene chloride was the original ingredient in Tenax 7R and MicroWeld before they

When that doesn't work, paste the entire list into a text editor, and save it as plain text in a .csv file; open the .csv file in whatever spreadsheet program you use (I use Libre Office on Mac OS X

By date. RR NO_ SERIES TYPE1 CARGO DATE TRAIN FGEX 57512 57000-58999 RS spuds "1-5-49" 94 BREX 74633 74400-74697 RS spuds "1-23-48" 20 MKT 50749 potatoes "1-4-48" 94 BREX 75421

I have been looking for color photographs to try and make my weathering more realistic. I found the one that is linked below of a Northern Pacific car on Ebay. I was wondering if the white stuff

Try some Tamiya thin cement. Good stuff. Scott.McDonald

I’ll agree with Scott. MEK is the fastest but it flashes quickly and the parts need to be in contact prior to application. Testor’s is slow working. Use it only in areas where you need more

Hi, Bill I don't know of any 'instant' way to bond styrene- even ACC takes a few seconds. I use MEK. It's as fast as anything else I know about. Scott Haycock Modeling

I rarely work with plastic models, however, recently I have had the occasion to work on two plastic structure kits. One is a Wlathers kit and the other a Grandt Line. I thought that the least of my