Thanks much for the advice. I’ll try it this weekend. Larry Sexton Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 12:50 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] Making casting masters You

I believe he means a person who does decal printing as opposed to a machine that prints decals. Check Great Decals, they have a number of custom printers

The only printer that will print white is an Alps model which is no longer made. You will need to find a working used one that someone is willing to sell. Rich Orr

Don Neat!  Wyho made their lift aand tip or rotary dumper? Al Kresse

Jon, Ron Roberts at Rail Graphics makes excellent decals and will produce small runs at what I think is a reasonable price if you supply the graphics. Richard Hendrickson

Your welcome, Don. I only hope Southwestern adds more door styles to there already impressive list.   Rich Christie To: STMFC@... Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 8:06 AM Subject:

My questions would be: 1. If we don't use decal rivets, how to do them? 2. Can decal rivets be made more accurately? If not, why not? And I agree that resin kits should not include decal rivets,

I responded to John Hagen's comments... which referenced the "dumbing-down" or our standards. Because of the way I have my Inbox set up (most recent post at the top) so I can manage the 300 or so

Hello to all. I'm looking to have perhaps one sheet (a dozen or so) made in a water-slide decal of a simple, one-color (white) graphic design, similar in size and complexity to a typical, say B&O, HO

Hi All, Does anyone know what size rivets were used on heavy weight passenger cars? Thank you in advance for any information. Joel Holmes

Tom, I remember you showed pictures of your "rapid prototyping" stair-step rivets at Naperville at about 1000x magnification and then it was obvious -- but when you showed the resin castings you had

Tom Madden wrote: I sympathize with your point of view, Andy, but, as one variation of an old platitude states, "Perfection is the enemy of progress". Frank Hodina used the Tony Thompson-designed

This is a freight car list, but I don't think anyone has yet mentioned Dennis's other superlative kits, namely the Soo passenger car series he did for the SLHTS. Sadly these too are almost all now

Tom Madden wrote: I'd agree, Tom. I've looked at the Archer rivets at 15X and indeed, they are "stepped pyramids" at that magnification, but paint tends to smooth them out. And they are all

Elden, You need to go to the bottom of the page and hit the NEXT icon. I too only thought thats all they had, till I scrolled down.   Rich Christie To: STMFC@... Sent: Tuesday, September

Tom, Please tell us what clear gloss coat Frank uses! Nelson

Andy Carlson wrote: I sympathize with your point of view, Andy, but, as one variation of an old platitude states, "Perfection is the enemy of progress". Frank Hodina used the Tony Thompson-designed

Accurail did this scheme in a three pack special some years ago; 'course the car is only a stand-in. http://www.accurail.com/accurail/ART/3300/3384.JPG Dennis

Thank you Matt, very informative. Bill Welch

Except with Tim's editing, it looks like Charlie hijacked the thread while John H. actually used it as a platform for rant on the state of modern modelling in general, and Charlie replied to THAT