Wouldn't button head screws solve the "gross appearance" problem? Allen sockets, but lower profile than fillister head slotted/Phillips screws.

A follow up - having done some testing, the desktop version of 123D is more advanced than the browser app, and Inventor Fusion is more advanced than 123D. The wrinkle with Fusion is that it will expir

http://www.123dapp.com There's a browser app and a desktop version. There's also Inventor Fusion, which apparently is more targeted to mechanical work: http://labs.autodesk.com/technologies/fusion It

Has anyone tried 123D from Autodesk for generating STL files? It seems to be targeted at the same market as sketchup, but given that it presumably includes some of Inventor's core, it might be less su

The simplest definition I know is from the usage. One screws a screw into a threaded hole in a part (or it taps its own hole) whereas one uses a bolt through plain holes with a nut. Of course, the dis

Clark (and anyone else who doesn't have a home for photos) - a website like www.flickr.com or www.photobucket.com makes a good (free!) source for storing photos for use elsewhere. I'd be interested to

I just realised I rather stupidly forgot to say that I meant "Prototype Modelers Boutique" to be a separate Yahoo list, rather than a physical entity.

Tom - frankly I'd hate to see you step aside as list owner at PCL, as you've fostered a good atmosphere over there. I'd have thought that a reasonable way to approach this would be for a separate Prot

Richard (or anyone else who wants to answer!) - what is the earliest documented appearance of the new roof? My modeling date is September 1940 and so ca. 1940 makes me prick my ears up as I'd previous

Peter Jackson is seriously interested in history - he happens to own a collection of 20+ replica and original WWI aircraft, and his company has built several working reproduction WWI engines from scra

Mark - As one of the younger modelers here (I was 2 1/2 when those articles were published!) I missed them when published in Mainline Modeler - and the back issues are no longer readily available. Is

I couldn't find it via Google, but it's available at: http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924032183216

Good luck from me too. I'd offer a suggestion to put articles that are relevant to modelers outside the NYC. As a Pennsy modeler, some guidance on selecting and modeling relevant NYC freight cars woul

Clark - and isn't that the point of it all? To me the reason to model as accurately as I can is to please myself. I don't care if anyone else likes the result... and similarly I don't expect anyone to

Brian, I think (and this is a guess - no inside knowledge!) that because there's an RTR model of just about every basic type of car (i.e. wood side reefer/stock car/box car/etc) then the chances of th

Absolutely. Frankly the way I see it is that if the foobies sell and allow "us" to get more prototypically accurate models made (because it's easier to amortize the tooling cost when you're selling th

Hi folks, I've got plenty of great information from this list, so here's a little tidbit that I picked up. I'm modifying an F&C X28a to better represent the prototype - moving the seam to the left of

I note from the latest Rapido Telegraph that they are moving into KIT PRODUCTION! Thanks guys!

I'm sure there are PLENTY of photos of this car... The only problem is none (?) of them are online! Ed

Phew, thanks Bill and Ed! The world is safe once again. I can get back to bugging Bill and Jason about other ideas (right?) -Ed