I ran into an odd issue after spraying clear coats on a pair of resin boxcar kits. Luckily, I found a fix. The latest DesignBuilOp blog post documents the troubles and the

Hello, sad to read this. I, too have one of these since this is the only 50' "outside-braced" box car made in brass. I already did some upgrades and want to replace the end ladders as these are only

Tony yes, sadly. we could REALLY use a resin kit for these !! Pierre are you listening? On 1/23/2022 5:33 PM, Tony Thompson wrote: -- Tim

My father designed and supervised the construction of the Age of Steam Roundhouse building and will be doing his presentation on the topic at Indy. The master plan part has a lot of overlap with

The ship in the photo is indeed HMS Implacable. After putting her planes and aircrew ashore in Australia, she transported troops for repatriation, many of them formerly held in Japanese POW camps. She

Tim O'Connor wrote: But with the wrong end. Tony Thompson tony@...

Good eye Tim: Here is one more. Bill Pardie

Remembered where my copy of the SP Freight cars v. 3 auto boxcar and flat car book was. I found the key spotting feature is the length of the under-door stiffened below the side sills. So that makes

Thanks Tim - I didn’t pick up on the steel sides. Makes it an even more do-able model. The photo is of a series on the archives site showing the carrier in port at the end of the war. (The other

Corey - Ah-ha, I must have "fat fingered" the search in eBay. Thanks for the correct link. CRZ

Neat picture. SP A-50-10 or A-50-11 all steel single sheathed automobile box cars built in 1930. Oriental imported a brass model of the A-50-10 (with end doors).

I am hoping those of you who know the Souther Pacific auto-boxcar fleet can help with some information on the 50’ car shown under the underpass in this photo (October 1945). Would like to know some

Excellent, a great fantasy build Love the Tall Corn Route Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Here's my fantasyland "Iron Modeler" concept car...Years in the making...Well maybe about as long as some guys take to build a resin kit, if they ever do? ; )) Clark

Tony Thompson wrote a blog entry on structural steel loads, and you can find it at: modeling the SP: Search results for structural steel The MS Open Car Loads books have several photos of steel loads.

You might also be seeing an unpainted load of fabricated steel on the way to the galvanizer. Fabricated steel in our era might have been primed with red lead for shipment. and was less likely to be

Bob, While I don’t know if the practice dates back to the timeframe that you model, the US Navy has been using pre-construction primer on steel plate since at least 1980.

Thanks for confirming that Bruce. Rob Slowly tackling the reality we’re all PRR modellers . . .

Raw structural steel is almost never painted (stuff like I beams or H beams etc) but fabricated steel loads could be painted or unpainted - I have photos of both. Depends what it

In my experience the "raw" steel from the steel mill is unpainted, the finished product from the Steel Fabricator will have been sandblasted and at least primed, sometimes it gets a finish