Tony Thompson wrote Having begun a kitbash of the Con-Cor (Revell) gondola, I decided to model a G31D which it seemed closest to. That entailed changing the ends and shaving off rivets and changing

Laurance, where have you been? Central Hobby Supply of Syracuse, NY marketed such an HO kit in styrene several years ago. I bought a few but sold them all. I never got a chance to build one but they

No wonder I missed your smilin' face... Anyways that's whats on the burner for Bowser...and you might take your time about re-subscribing, at least until the current flame-fest regarding the Altoona

Just wanted to say,I for one would gladly pay $25 + for a Des Plaines quality NYC wood caboose (19000 series). The same goes for a GATX or Pennsylvania Tank Line tank car ca 1920 with

No matter how good you have it vented you only have 15 lbs per sq. in. pushing down on your plastic. Sometimes we would put a pressure box on top and run another 50 lb per sq. in. and still it would

Bill Daniels wrote: I thought you were on the PRR-Talk list. Jerry's been going on recently about the N8 which he says should be out by next year...<<snip>> I was, until the @home implosion wiped

I took Ian Clasper's advice and went to the Rob Schoenberg site. It is clear that some G31 subclasses had side post alternation of wide and narrow like the Con-Cor kit, others are like the G35. For

Don, they were welded from sheet steel, and would be a little hard to cast in soft metal, I'd think. They would be fairly easy to make from styrene sheet. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature

Shawn, could the bulkheads be soft metal, hypotheically? Don

Ian Clasper said: Well, if the Con-Cor G31 is correct, then it's quite different from a G35. The G35 has a rather different alternation of wide and narrow side posts, and a less deep drop to the

It's a repainting symbol, Shawn. Upper characters are some sort of code for the number of coats and type of paint, the bottom line is the station symbol and date (e.g."BG-6-55"). It seems to have

Guy Wilber writes: Curious. When McClung started design work on the F-70-7, he asked me for a set of drawings, which I supplied. (Maybe he's a drawing collector...) This was just this year. Which

They're either a paint or shop mark, but they're on nearly every post war NYC boxcar that I have a picture of. On a 50' double door shot I have the lettering reads: X

There have been rumors for some time about die work being done on an SP caboose in styrene. If I were contemplating such a kit, I woujld touch as many mfgr. bases as I could, starting with Des

Tim O'Connor said: Tim, if you belonged to the Society you could order leftovers; there are often cars remaining after a convention, though they tend to be marketed to members. And then you can be

So basically what everyone is telling me is that vacuum forming won't pick up finer details, especially wood grain and small rivets. That makes sense. It's sort of a shame, tho. I may still try a

~ ~So basically what everyone is telling me is that vacuum forming won't pick ~up finer details, especially wood grain and small rivets. That makes ~sense. Well that's not quite correct - if you

List, Received a number of NYC freight car prints from Rich Burg last night. Going through them, I notice that a number of cars have a triangle painted in the lower left corner with a bunch of

I've heard that Sunhine is trying to have GN/NP/SP&S 1952 ACF 41'-6" gons ready for the July convention. Allen Rueter

I suspect that the labour involved in getting the parts out of the sheet might be an issue. I have built a good many vacform aeroplanes over the years and this was the most tedious and frustrating