Charlie Duckworth asked: "Wondering what's on your work bench and would you recommend it to another modeler?" Group of six PRR Walthers/Train-Miniature X29 "Tan Dot" upgrades, various eras and paint

Jeff- slides are a means of coring a hole in a plastic part not in the direction of mold opening. (ie- molding a stock car body in one piece would usually require slides (or side coring to mold the

Scenery making stuff, and it is a MESS! ______________ J. Stephen (Steve) Sandifer mailto:steve.sandifer@... Home: 12027 Mulholland Drive, Meadows Place, TX 77477, 281-568-9918 Office:

Greetings, You'll probably find this amusing, or maybe crazy. I'm trying to assemble the 26 different Sunshine 24 series wooden 37' meat reefers. So far, I have only scratched the surface of this BIG

Bill, If you scroll down in the Wikipedia article, there are several photos of the mold for LEGO bricks. They're not trains, but at least they're something of a similar size.

ed_mines wrote: You're right, Ed, the proper name is hypodermic tubing. Dremel works great, IF you put a piece of wire inside before cutting. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press,

On my downstairs workbench (which my wife hates, since it's the kitchen table): two 42' RC flatcars converted to 13 stake, for MP, and one 45' spliced from two RC flatcars, also MP, which have the

Thank you Tim, this is sort of what I have in mind. I am realizing I need to be more specific. What I would love to see out pure curiosity is a picture of the cavity in a tool or mold into which the

A Southern Car & Foundry resin kit for a UP Postal car, awaiting stripping and repainting (because I screwed up the clear coat the first time - GRRR). Recommended? Yes. A Prototype Rails

AAR/ARA/MCB standard air brake pipe size has been 1 1/4" i.d. for many years--at least a century? My guess is that a major builder used this pipe as an expedient. All North American roads have this

I have 4 of the Sunshine 1937 Great Northern DS boxcars decaled on one side on the work bench. Next to them are: 1) an Overland Models "Poultry Palace" car awaiting decals; 2) one Westerfield Great

What's on my bench? 1) One each Wegman PFE R-30-12-18 and R-30-13-18, built, painted and lettered and waiting for Tony to get unburied enough to give me a couple of car numbers <G>. The R-30-12-18

Charlie-- I had a lot of fun with this Tichy kit, converting it to a model of a CN 470000-series steel-rebuild box car. A new "fish-belly" centre sill was made of styrene sheet, and the ends were

My work bench?Other than the usual clutter, a BCW (RCS) resin Rutland baggage,a BCW CV brass side coach and a Branchline NYC 6-3 Glen Echo Pullman.plus a slew of Bad Order freight Cars.Armand Premo

Not railroad molds, but I think some of them might be like this http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00pvFECRnDOQru/Plastic-Molds-Injection-Plastic-Molds-Plastic-Mold.jpg Interesting info and pictures

Bill, The size of the mold depends on the way the model is being made. Injection cast molds are larger than resin cast molds. I make the masters for a line of resin cast models, In many cases the

Ben, the car is decaled and wash weathered. I'll give it a shot of flat finish and a little airbrush weathering after I'm finished eating.. BTW I wrote 'Figure' should be "Finger" and 'ACF' should be

Thanks Jim: I have made patterns for resin kits so I am aware of the process for creating molds for resin. I am also aware of how styrene is molded, having built tanks and planes from about the age

Hi Charlie, Right now on my workbench there are the following... a Tichy USRA boxcar, a Ribside Models 40-ft MILW boxcar, 3 CB&T ATSF Bx48s, and a Speedwitch MKT 40-ft SS boxcar. And on the rip-track

Howdy!     If any one reading this list would like real brass unions, tees or elbows, contact me off list. Thanks, Bob McCarthy