My start in Hon3 was in the late 1970s. I was still at that point living with my parents in Solihull (part of the Birmingham, UK conurbation). I'd fiddled with modelling the Highland Railway in LMS da

Micro spikes are still listed on MEs web site. http://microengineering.com/products_ta.htm Mick ________________________________ Mick Moignard m: +44 7774 652504 Skype: mickmoignard The week may start

Whatever you do, put the speaker in the smokebox where it should be. Not in the tender or bunker on the tank locos, that’s where the decoder can go. I’ve dealt with a few of these with split gears and

That looks just like the Katsumi-made Shay sold by Balboa and Westside and possibly others. The drive in this one is just fine, via the engine crankshaft. I’ve remotored and added sound to somewhere a

Years ago I took the motor of one of these overoiled K-27s apart. I was very surprised to find a 3-pole motor. The issue was the standard one of oil on the commutator and brushgear turning sludge, and

Run Cam 2. Wifi controlled from your phone, video or still shots recorded on on-board MicroSD card. https://www.runcam.com/ Place on an HOn3 flat car. Mick ____________________________________________

I’m with Dave. Just draw the rail positions on a piece of paper, double sided tape on it, lay out the PCB ties, make and fit the crossing nose and go on from there, with a couple of track gauges and a

Dale While your UP guy is I’m sure entirely correct about track standards in the US, both tracks thru the crossing must be straight, here in the UK we allow one or sometimes both tracks in the crossin

I removed lettering from a K36 with a quick wipe of butanone. It shifted the lettering without affecting the paint, but, and it may be a big but, mine is a 2019 model and yours is 2002. In 2002 they m

There are other people who make HOn3 track gauges. Kadee have them for example. I use them and have no problems with them. https://www.kadee.com/hon3-scale-tools-and-accessories-c-272_224_229/342-hon3

I disagree with comment that the new owners of PSC don’t know what to do. I have had a number of orders fulfilled by them decently quickly, always with everything I asked for. The only no I’ve had fro

I would not trust MDC accuracy over Thinfilm, or indeed Blackstone, whose Gramps lettering is the same size as Thinfilm. Both also match photos of the real thing. Mick ________________________________

No, you do glue the body bolster beam on MRGS trucks to the truck body bolster, they pivot as one. The car truck plate is separate. Mick ________________________________ Mick Moignard m: +44 7774 6525

Grandt did used to offer a plastic passenger truck. 5182 if my memory serves. PSC offered an identical set of castings including a mould flaw in brass. Grandt suffered a problem with wheel manufacture

RGS 20 got the tender, cab and some other parts from 25 in the 1944 rebuild from the 1943 wreck. 25 was taken out of service around 1940 and slowly lost parts for some years; see the various photos in

John No idea why it was there unless it was some sort of bleed valve, but both 20 and 461 had them and they’re rarely if ever modelled. Mick ______________________________________ Mick Moignard mick@m

QuickPic RGS 20 P 60 My second attempt model Mick ______________________________________ Mick Moignard mick@... p:+44 7774 652504 skype: mickmoignard The week may start M, T, but it alway

Mark Yes, it’s wrong. The rearward pipe does not go into the tank. The Pruitt drawing in Silver San Juan is wrong. I’ll send some photos... Mick ________________________________ Mick Moignard m: +44 7

The issue with the DP 461 is that both models are wrong. The RGS version doesn’t have the prominent pipe that ran up the RH side of the tender and terminated in a shutoff valve. Nobody has ever modell

Many years ago I made a set of the cast RPO trucks from MDC trucks and an E&B/MRGS outside bearing beam. Pretty convincing, well I think so... Mick ____________________________________________________