am building an RC sailing ship with a fine cotton bedsheets material for a sail.. soaking them in coffee is giving me a beautiful canvas look.

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if you file some black plastic and ad a tad of trine glue to the black plastic sawdust, you have just made your own. Bill Nelson

I spray the assembled cars with gray primer on the outside, and tan on the inside, and very lightly sand the outside before either spray or brush painting them. sometimes, when I feel organized, I spr

Labelle kits are awesome. at $10.00 a piece buy them all. new passenger car kits kits cost in the neighborhood of $60.00 These are advanced kits, that said I build one 50 years ago, and did well enoug

Not surprised. I don’t thinks it’s going to be a mass market . I built a couple MDC 2-8-0s, built a Keystone/NWSL Shay, bought a con door goose, , and a blackstone C-19. most of my power is old brass,

I ordered some On3 castings for my On3 4-4-0 projects months ago, and got prompt service. I ordered the parts through thier E-bay store.

been hacking up brass to mount coolers forever, and doing al kinds of atrocious things to cars to mount couplers, I don’t see an issue; or at least any different from the 714s, and I won’t miss puttin

thats what I have been doing for years. if the rail heads are not flush, you can usually file on the crushed rail joiner to bring them flush without having to mess up the rail head.

Bob, if you use an existing frog Jig, and point jig, it should be easy to go from there the old fashioned way . . I always free handed switches, the frog and point jigs would be all I”d ever use. Bill

I removed the bus body, used a razor saw to cut the buss body off just behind the windshield, preserving the hood and windshield. I layered up styrene shapes to build the Pierce Arrow body. That was b

bought one of the first batch, and kit bashed it into a Pierce Arrow bodied goose. it has always been flawless on my DC outfit. Bill Nelson, Clarksville,TN

Thanks, with Blackstone trucks playing hard to get I may have to try these. from my experience with HO stuff, I despise KD wheels, but I have projects that need trucks. Bill Nelson Clarksville TN.