An old modelers trick (I’m sure many of you must know) is to melt and stretch a “styrene” sprue. Use a piece of sprue a couple of inches long or more, hold the center over an open flame until one end

Hello group, are you talking about the smaller scale head #158 whisker coupler rather than the standard head (#5 size) #148 coupler? The scale head couplers have a smaller pulling face (gathering area

Hello group, My guess is the vehicles do actually appear to be rear views of M4 Shermans with "welded hulls" and "full fender side skirting". I don't believe they are front view M5/M8, nor are they M1

Hello group, We're paying attention to these truck comments so don't loose hope. Presently, new trucks are an "as time allows" project but hopefully we'll get around to doing more trucks in our HGC ma

Hello, Have you tried Humbrol paints, now owned by Hornby? They are made in Europe and should be available most anywhere over there. Many years ago I used Humbrol paints for military modeling and back

Hello Marty, Garth, and group, I was born and raised in Hawthorne, NV and worked at the base for while before moving to Oregon. The base did in fact store quite a number of 16" gun barrels mostly from

Hello Jim and group, There's been quite a thread about our new tank car and some are keeping in line with the subject and others have gone off in another direction. Jim has asked how to pick our tank

With a sadness in our hearts, Dale Edwards, owner and co-founder of Kadee Quality Products, passed away on Friday the 19th, 2014. Dale was 93 and remained active in the operations and management of Ka

When I opened my e-mails this morning I seen all the posts with "Richard Hendrickson" in the subject line and knew without opening any that something terrible has happened to Richard. Sadly I opened T

Hello group, I know many of you have been waiting for this, our two piece HGC trucks are now available with code 88 wheels. Product numbers are on our web site. Also we have bulk packaged some of our

Elden, I can't really say we have plans but we have the desire to do the earlier 40 foot PS-1s along with the 8 foot door 50' PS-1s and perhaps these will become plans then reality. Unlike most other

Hello Group, There's a bit of information that hasn't been mentioned yet about the riveted 40" PS-1 ends. We have found that cars built at the Michigan City Plant did not have rivets on the ribs and t

Hello group, Kieth Edwards passed away yesterday of natural causes at the age of 91. Kieth and his twin brother Dale co founded Kadee Quality Products back in the 1940's. Around 1990 Kieth and Dale sp

Hello group, As Andy and others have pointed out the old #78 coupler has a special shank and centering system that's unique only to the #78 coupler. The inside of the #78 box has a wedge or chevron sh

Don't forget the Navy had three lots of 40 foot PS-1 box cars built in 1952, 1953 and 1955. Sam Clarke Kadee Quality Products Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 9:08 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: [STM

Frank, Contact me off list at mail@... and I'll get you a list. Sam Clarke Kadee Quality Products Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 6:22 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] PS2 ques

Hello Brian, Both actually, we want to expand our truck line with new types and offer the same trucks we have in our fully sprung truck line with the new design. Then modelers will have a choice, thos

I really don't need to comment because Ed has done a great job in explaining our new truck design, thank you Ed, your mud is quite translucent. We have been receiving many positive comments about thes

Hello Armand, Although we are cutting down the use of the #4 coupler in other coupler applications or coupler packages the #4 as it is will still be available for quite sometime. The present #78 is th

Hello Tom, without actually seeing the particular model I can only suggest a coupler to try. I would try a short #143 standard head whisker coupler or the short scale head #153 in our #252 draft gear