I know Aubrey, although I've never inspected his tooling, but here's a nice photo to illustrate some points: http://www.pbase.com/cprfan/image/127758502/large Open it in another window so you can

Hi Bill, I can fulfill your request. A friend of mine machines his own multi-part molds and has two injection molding presses. I have lunch with him every Friday, so after lunch, I will stop by his

List (and Charlie) I am currently assembling a F & C USRA 40' DS Boxcar (Polybag special) that will be lettered for the Rock Island. This is my first flat kit after building several one-piece-body

Jeff Aley: Jeff, I'm reasonably familiar with laser cutting, but not at all familiar with the material properties required to yield clean, debris-free cuts. As for dimensional consistency, if you're

Hi to all... I have been having a lot of fun reading these posts thinking how can these guys get so jammed up with projects, that was until I went and had a good look at my workbench and realised how

Thank you Dennis, this very interesting and I will look forward to the pictures. Among my modeling vices are military subjects. I just measured the hull of Italeri's 1/35 scale 80' PT Boat and it is

lnbill wrote: Oops, forgot to mention, at the bottom of each image is a link called "original", click this link to switch to a much larger view size

lnbill wrote: Bill, while attending the NMRA national convention in 2009, i attended a clinic put on by Aubrey Olson of Caboose Industries, there he had several injection molding patterns on display

Several Bowser F30 flat cars, some WW2 tanks, trying to make a troop train. An F&C FM flat car. As well as off list a Bowser PRR H-9 that I am still building. Maybe if I stopped reading all the

While living in California in the 1970s I had the privilege of operating regularly on fellow's small layout. All his cars and locomotives were painted differently on each side. The basic layout was

Charlie, Right now I have three Speedwich X29 type boxcar kits - the MEC, L&NE and B&O M-26 versionson the bench. I like to build several similar kits in small groups. I have completed the carbodys

On my workbench are: 1. F&C B&O P-11 flatcar being converted to SP&S X165 as the prototype did in 1944, along with a load to help bring it up to weight, 2. a GN NW-5 crosskit project, 3, some minor

I just finished two Speedwitch Fowler boxcars; very nice kits and recommended.  Now, I've got to get back to some layout work! Jim Brewer Glenwood MD

Mike, I built a trio of those this past winter. Very pleased with the results. I would suggest a change from the instructions if you haven't got there already. The instruction call for drilling the

That's pretty close in concept. The part that forms the interior is typically called the "core" (as is any part that forms an interior void in the part.) In model RR practice, the core is typically on

As others are leveling I will too. I have four Westerfield R7 FGE reefers w/3 different roofs and two styles of ladders; 2 FGE and one WFE truss rod reefers; a very worked over and modified Ribside

The Shake 'n' Take 40-ft. gondola kitbash; an IMWX Southern box car; four SP 12,500-gallon tank cars well along to being corrected from Athearn cars and lettered; and a brass Overland ICC 105 tank

I am working on one in S-scale.   Dennis

42 resin kits. All at the 3/4 mark.   They shoukd be done in 3 weeks.   Dennis

Hmmm. Everyone seems to be quite busy. I kept waiting to see if anyone...and no, it looks like I may be the only one that is working on the WrightTRAK B&O M-53 box car. It seems to be going