The very first Cox stuff was just assembled Athearn bluebox, but they later did some stuff of their own, like the "army train" which may have included the fire fighter tank car. Just kind of odd becau

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Speaking of unknown tank cars.... I got one of these for Christmas: http://pictures1.kyozou.com/pictures/_18/17335/17334167.jpg LOL..... it's part of the Walthers Trainline, but it resembles the old A

At 01:26 PM 1/1/2014 -0800, you wrote: I agree with Andy, lead sheet is far easier to work with than wheel weights. I bought my sheet of lead at a plumbing supply place, so if you strike with roofing

I usually cyanopoxy the lead in place. Sometimes I fold it over and stack it up, in that case I put some cyanopoxy between the layers and then squeeze it in a vice. For freight cars, if I'm not using

Grossly overpriced for the amount of material you get. I went to an 84 lumber and asked about lead flashing and the kid said "you mean metal?" and I said yes lead is a metal. He showed me a bunch of g

I went searching for lead flashing in the Cincinnati area and came up empty. Apparently it's just not used in roofing around here the way it is out west. I wound up ordering a 3x6' lead sheet from McM

How far off is the CV width? I've been sitting on one of these kits since they were first released, and was never sure what to do with it until someone ID'd my photo as being the CV car - by then I ha

1974. Me too. I wasn't into shooting freight cars at the time, but it struck me as unusual and I snapped a Kodachrome - slightly blurred but the number is readable. Andy

Scalecoat has probably changed their formula somewhat. I used to use some stuff called "UnPaint", which was very similar. Back around 1996, I stripped a Kato SD40 shell with Scalecoat and the shell wa

I havent seen any in 10 years at least. Worked on the tough jobs but the majority of factory paint will strip easily and safely with alcohol nowadays. The glaring exception bring BLI. Their paint is b

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Thanks. Things are starting to make sense. Andy

Link? Or is it members only? I lapsed again a couple years ago. Andy

I saw it in a facebook post - a test shot of the wavy side and a prototype photo. Andy

Any prototype photos of these cars in the numbers and configuration IM did them? They did two versions, one with an arched end and the other with a notched arched end. All in 33xxx number series. Only

My sleep doctor's name is something like Omdevasina Thirugnanamanman and I'm told it's pronounced "Debbie Theramin". Andy

I first attended Naperville in 1995, and I felt a bit out of place and out of era. But Martin didn't seem to mind that the meet grew to include much, much more than his product line and it quickly bec

It would also be Exactrail's first tank car of any type. Andy

You'd be surprised. I got my first airbrush in 1972 when I was 14 years old. I had been building models since age 7 and using spray paint since about the age of 10. I loaded my cheapie Badger 250 up w