As Mont says, I use the SC II thinner. I put too much time into models to risk ruining one by trying to cheap out on the thinner, no matter whose paint. Hardware store lacquer thinner gets used for cl

Shipped in box cars? Or piled up in gons like the dead of Clichy? :) Craig Zeni Olde Cary, NC

I bought one of the UMM saws a few years ago after hearing Greg Martin rave about it. I wasn't disappointed at all. It's an amazing thing and I'm now the guy that raves about them. The UMM saw and som

While I can't say as I've tried the Mr Self Leveling Thinner on Tamiya paints, I can attest to the stuff's goodness. I use it to thin the Mr Color lacquers and it's great stuff. I've bodged a paint jo

I was very disappointed in the decoder quality in the Broadway Limited PRR P5A boxcabs. The sound wasn't good to my ear and it didn't run as well as I would like. I'm a Loksound user so I went rummagi

I never liked the Testors dullcoat, Walthers DDV, or even the Scalecoat flat - all were/are too amber I really noticed that the first time I used the Floquil flat and compared that Southern Rwy diesel

Bill Welch, this is all your fault. You're the one that made me start considering paints besides Scalecoat... *shakes fist* I have to say that my experience well mirrors Dr Denny's, this after not bei

As an on-and-off O&W modeler, 'hermit road' is a pretty decent description. Once the on-line anthracite mines played out / went bankrupt in 1937 the railroad (which held mortgages on those very mines)

Satin - semi gloss. Matte - flat Craig Zeni Cary NC

I've been using a flat finish from a Polish company called Hataka. It's thinned with lacquer thinner, comes in a small squeeze bottle with a dropper dip and a metal agitation ball in the bottle. Dries

Not opinion, but fact...it's not Oregon. It's Salem, Indiana. The Monon leased a few SP&S RS-2s in the 1960s. The odd car is what's called a Rider Caboose...a 'front end' caboose was required by India

Not opinion, but fact...it's not Oregon. It's Salem, Indiana. The Monon leased s few SP&S RS-2s in the 1960s. The odd car is what's called a Rider Caboose...a 'front end' caboose was required by India

According to Bob Karig's "Coal Cars: The First 300 Years" the hollow axles were an effort to reduce unsprung weight as they weighed 30% less than solid axles. Trials were run in 1941 and 1946 AAR rule

Precisely what I do...I build the basic body with no details then work out the 'mechanical' parts of the trucks and couplers. I try very hard to not seal the couplers in draft gear but to make them re

I built the B7; have another one stashed away I think. They were a nice build although I wasn't crazy about the way the doors were handled. I'll figure out a better way on the next one. I also used Te

Dan, Back in my college days when I was studying metallurgy, one of my professors who happened to be a tinplate train collector and restorer told me his theory was that poison Zamac aka zinc pest isn'

What Tony said. It's awful looking when applied, but dries very thin and works extremely well. Cleans up with isopropyl alcohol. Dan Kohlberg recommends using the stuff on his Alps-printed decals as t

No secret on the largest one - it's Atlas. They've got it posted on their web page as of late yesterday afternoon. From the Atlas web page: "Atlas has received notification from one of our locomotive

Using Tamiya's masking tape I have masked over Archers but I airbrushed glosscoat over them first. I also applied the Archers over a painted surface, not directly to unpainted plastic. Craig Zeni Cary

Photo received, reader impressed. Tell us more about the model :) Craig Zeni Cary NC