Truly sad news! He ran decals for Houston Belt & Terminal for me. Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from my iPhone)

I use the crud at the bottom of my paint brush thinner bottle used to clean the brush. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

I just learned Hubert Mask, owner of Mark Island decals, passed away this afternoon. I know many of this list bought decals from him and I was fortunate to hang out with him at the Collinsville RPM

How big is wood flour in HO scale, probably ½ in. or more in diameter. You may be able to see a bumpy surface at 1:1, are those bumps visible at 1:87? I’m after a flat grainy black surface, and

The problem with weathering powers is they're finer than frog fur. To build up the effect you want you need something with a larger particle size, like "wood flour" which is very fine sawdust. Maybe

I haven't done a canned EBAY search in a while, but try "brass model railroad trains -Lionel -Athearn (-etc)". -Hudson

Up until a year, or so, ago I had a saved search for Ebay brass, simply "brass model railroad trains". Now, items being imported brass is only about 20% of this search's offerings. Everything from

Back in the day when we scraped chalk sticks to make powder (I rubbed the stick on the inside of a mini-tea strainer placed over a small wide mount bottle), I painted wheel sets with a Floquil rusty

Several excellent weathering articles have suggested similar methods for achieving the "crusty" appearance that form on the face of the wheel. This involves painting the face a weathered black and

FWIW, Pre-size Model Specialties offers a cast urethane kit for the A-50-6 in S-scale now: http://pre-size.com/products/SscaleFreight_CarsPS593.php Earl Tuson

Frank, Thank you very much for this information. -- Cheers Jeff Helm The Olympic Peninsula Branch https://olympicpeninsulabranch.blogspot.com/

<Has anyone used these truss rods in 3D? <https://www.shapeways.com/shops/macomb-model-works <Gary Laakso Most are a little too new for me. My time stopped in September 1905 However, I did order the

Criticizing business practices is prohibited. Criticizing products is not. In this case we’re talking about a product that has been OOP for around 15 years. Tom Madden

Frank is a single person business (Actually that's not true I met the head of the shipping and billing department at Collinsville RPM meet) and I would rather have him working on other things than the

Who is trashing them? So far I have seen reasonable critiquing which manufacturers should be open to. I don’t think that kit manufacturers should not be closed off from reasonable criticism simply

Decimal place matters. The rounded off number was good if that’s any consolation. Nelson Moyer From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io>On Behalf Of Scott H. Haycock Sent:

Here we go again. This is like the discussiona few weeks ago on the FW&D covered hoppers color. This I gather has effected the sales of this otherwise excellent model. I don't disagree that the

Has anyone used these truss rods in 3D? https://www.shapeways.com/shops/macomb-model-works Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

That was sort of my point. We make compromises in scale dimensions in other freight car details; mainly because the correct components aren't available, or can't be economically made, to scale.

The legos are a permanent part of the build? (It looks like they must be)