Just imagine the story Larry Jackman would have spun with this lead-in. Dave Nelson

Where’s the bottle, no pic! Name? Thanks, Bill Jolity

Rob, Much easier to get the faded paint with powdered colors over the factory paint. No need to strip and repaint. Powders also give the effect of chalking paint, perhaps the main cause of fading. I

A rerun of set D122 PRR X31 is at Microscale for printing now, I hope to have them back in stock before the end of the year. Ryan Mendell National Scale Car

Clark, here’s the bottle. I’ve used it to remove water slide decals that haven’t had a clear coat applied and on factory lettering. -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

I have used Tamiya TS-80 Flat Clear with reasonable success. None of the spray or brush on flat coats really give me the dead flat look of oxidized 10 year old paint. It is expensive as a can rarely

It is well known in entomologist circles that the digestive juices excreted by crickets, locusts etc. would be highly corrosive to the cellulose in wood timbers. At small scale this would not be

As noted previously, National Scale Car now carries the Speedwitch line of decals. These include Ted's most excellent X31/32 set. Set D122, PRR X31/32 is currently out of stock, but I am sure that

Thank you Don, and Steve! John Golden

I’m contemplating the faded look on my X31 models and trying to capture a range of effects. I’ve already weathered one in the usual way (washes, oils, etc etc.). Besides such techniques, I am

Nah. Just one big one. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of "Bill Parks via groups.io" <BPARKS_43@...> Reply-To: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Date: Thursday,

I'm hearing a lot of crickets on this thread -- Bill Parks Cumming, GA Modelling the Seaboard Airline in Central Florida

What that gondola looked like new. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of gary laakso <vasa0vasa@...> Reply-To: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Date: Wednesday,

You say you used a "decal remover"? What would that be? Thanks, another great model, Clark

Hi John, According to the RI diagram sheet this group of 1200 B2 boxcars, 157500-158699, built by ACF in 1925 had two different roofs, divided in half 157500 – 158099 Murphy

Hi Eric Thanks. I agree with you on this. I have used powders as well without a final seal. The dull coat seems to have enough tooth to hold it on my models as well. Again well done Dave

John, According to Ted Culotta's Essential Freight Car article in June 2006 RMC the cars originally had Hutchins Dry Lading roof's. Don Burn

Folks, I'm slightly amused by this whole discussion. With some frequency, I slice and dice pieces of decals, including Ted's decals, to make the reweight dates and other data I need. On my recent SnT

Thanks for your comments, Dave. The airbrush is not used in additional weathering steps. Some cars might receive a wash before I apply Pan Pastels and the pencil highlights. I do not seal the

Tim, The truss angles are different on the XM-1 cars. One uses a Howe truss design while the other it a Pratt truss design. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN