Michael Gross has a very nice Weathering Article in the January 2017 Model Railroad Hobbyist Magazine. http://mrhpub.com/2017-01-jan/online/html5/ George Toman

In my experience Baking Soda is not aggressive enough to remove paint. Great for surface prep on styrene and resin, not removing paint. Bill Welch

---In STMFC@..., <repairman87@...> wrote : John, Have you tried baking soda instead of the aluminium oxide? Scott McDonald Or even aluminum oxide with a lowered air pressure? Don't know what you

I have been planning to build a ATSF BX-77 boxcar with the large "DF...With..Shock Control" markings for a while now and have gathered together what I thought were the necessary items. As I started

John, Have you tried baking soda instead of the aluminium oxide? Scott McDonald

I have used 91% isopropyl without harmful effects to strip resin when making mistakes in painting, and given that different manufacturers may use different types of resin I always test first on a

Bill: Sandblasting will not remove the mold release that I need to get off in order to paint my models. I am not removing paint, I am removing mold release. You need a solvent for that. I know that

Yes, definitely a clinker hook. The design remained unchanged to the end of steam although larger fireboxes required a longer tool. Usually seen atop a tender and on a rack next to the ashpit. This

Hi all, Looking for this end or a means to this end in HO scale. I have a pair of Detail Associates 5/5 ends that might do the job with a little work. Any other suggestions? I will be pairing these

---In STMFC@..., <eric@...> wrote : And we get a fine broadside image of the WSB hopper today! http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-12-31-16/X1188.jpg Eric

Bob it looks to be a “clinker tool” used to break up chunks of coal or rake the grates of a coal burner. Note on the other side of the stairway is a shovel. It is possible these tools are

PLEASE, PLEASE take Joe Binish up on his offer and DO NOT subject resin ANYTHING to chemicals—PLEASE Bill Welch

Well It might now in that it helps to add another dimension. I had no idea until now. Bill Welch

John wrote, "Sylvan Models recommends Dio-Sol, which doesn't exist any more, so I was trying to find a substitute." If you want Dio-Sol you can make your own with a formula provided by a chemistry

Bob, I thought it was just discarded pipe. Thereseem to be several items strewn along the hillside between the stairs and theshed over the tracks. Eric Hansmann El Paso, TX

I am attempting to strip Testor's spray can enamel from my resin parts. While searching the 'net for solutions, I saw where someone recommended using Lacquer thinner. I have a couple of small pieces

Jim, The implication that a hopper built in 1917is a USRA car is an author error. There was no USRA at that time. The cardesign may have influenced the later USRA design but these WSB cars cannot

There is a builders photo of WSB hopper 7600 on page 98 of the Worley book "West Side Belt Railroad". This photo shows a car with an MCB truck with a bottom strap, looking much like an early Andrews

Diosol is indeed a mixture of the two. I had the proportions and split a batch of home brewed thinner with a group of fellow modelers when stationed in Dayton in the mid eighties. The note on my

I could wonder about lye. I used to use it on AHM passenger cars, and it never reacted with the plastic. Ed Edward Sutorik