Joe - This is a fascinating string of posts! I would surely like to know what kind of machine your friend uses to make the mold masters! Thanks! A.T. Kott

GUYZ,   A true lister in this group has, without question, a back log of kits stored for those deep snow days, rainy days, and the I deserve a break day. I'm just as bad as the rest; 64 items yet to

Hi, If you want to see some "molds in action" you can go to the website http://www.paralleldesign.com and look at the two sections "Moldability 101" and "Portfolio". There are some

And I thought for all these years that the mantra was, "The one who dies with the most toys wins!" Trying real hard to win, Pierre Oliver

Side tracked by a death in the family last week. Found a few hours early this morning to finish filing points for 26 #6 switches. Also completing 4 #8 switches. Before having to go out of town, had

Paul, Hardly, Anyone can BUY the fool things . . . getting to the point where you have no more left to BUILD is the challenge. <g> Marty

Marty: Are you trying to start a "Can You Top This" with this statement? "I can't WAIT to get back to building freight cars - I must have close to 100 kits stashed away . . . Marty"

Let's see . . . There's about 8 opened Micro-Engineering no. 6 turnout packages - need to save the headblocks and detail sprues . . . a couple of Central Valley turnout tie strips, a bunch of little

Fred I have 3 more on the shelf way back on the shelf Don Ford Modeling the PRR C&P in Utah where the nearest RR track is 100 miles away Kanab UT ________________________________ To:

Bill Welch wrote: "I have promised myself not to start anymore kits until I clear this backlog." I'm kind of surprised at the number of partially completed models guys are fessing up to having. I

Fred Freitas wrote: "Since you actually finished a Railroad Progress hopper kit, you get the "patience award" for this month. Those are some annoying kits to build." "Kit" is overegging the

Don,   Since you actually finished a Railroad Progress hopper kit, you get the "patience award" for this month. Those are some annoying kits to build.   Fred Freitas

I like to finish a car but somethine get stuck on the details detailing a hobbline quad hopper almost finished but can't find a picture of the sid with the train air line or was it run done the

I don't keep a lot of projects going at once, and currently have three: Westerfield FEC ventilated box, finished except for cut levers; Westerfield USRA DS box, being done as a modernized GN car, in

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