Lester That looks really nice. Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I expanded the Minneapolis & Northland Railroad Company roster with a freight car a purchased from the Jim Hayes estate. An Innovative Model Works (IMWX) Southern Pacific Box Car numbered 83627

No offense John, but I'd say your comment, "Just one more problem with acrylic finishes," is a generalization on the finish issue. I've been using Vallejo acrylics and Model Master

Just one more problem with acrylic finishes. Doesn't happen with Scalecoat I/II and Testors Dullcoat. Problem is most likely due to the incompatibility of water based and solvent based products.

Military forces tend to paint things more than civilian organisations, l think it is partly to keep the manpower busy during peacetime, also high standards of maintenance.

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? -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

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.