Resin printed is great until you drop or put pressure on it the wrong way .i have a nose dived TOMA shay that doesnt run .i i just got it running perfectly after a fair bit of work and replacing drive

The only time I have had this I pulled the tyre and smeared araldite on the inner rim,reattached it to the wheel , and left it to dry for a few days .It solved the problem Martin

I cut down a Peco HO /OO version .Just cut it down the middle and removed a slice .Cheap and cheerful but makes putting those K,s on the track sooooooo easy . I will photo it and post it later. Martin

Sorry got the name wrong .Its Rustoleum Stops Rust in the USA ,Combicolor in europe ..not truecolor .my mistake https://www.rustoleum.com/product-catalog/consumer-brands/stops-rust/protective-enamel

https://elementgames.co.uk/paints-hobby-and-scenery-by-manufacturer/archive-x/boxcar-red. It seems Star wars movie modelmakers used Floquil so this company provide mixes to match .There is also a site

A PSC caboose plastic and brass kit ..nearly finish .I might try a Hornby Maglite coach light kit in it .The roof is removable .

A jewellers saw like a small fret saw and LOTS of blades,a good quality drill bit to drill a hole to start the window cutting precess and an expensive set of small swiss jewllers files .if you eyes do

I checked out their site and it lists the MDC shay replacement gears . I bought my standard gauge shay as a clunker on ebay for a song but thought it showed NWSL gears so I figured if the shay was a w

Old school joke methinks

I have one and use it for scenery and area covering as its fairly low pressure .I use higher pressure for locos and fine weathering .iIs good for what it does and useless at what it doesnt .Of course

Wow looks great well done Martin

Useful info cheers .All I can add is that the Westside C-16 268 is only accurate in yellow bee livery as far as I can see with 278 being in black .The 268 has the later tender mods which applied to th

I think an Austrian company Halling make tram trucks that will adjust to various gauges including H0n3 .Also Bemo H0m(metre gauge) models often will convert to Hon3 in fact years ago i did some .if th

https://www.fredericus-rex.eu/en/Scale-1-72-Figures-Buildings-Plants-Flag-s/Buildings-1-18/1-72-American/GL-WW-005.html this company make 1/72 western kits for cowboy figures

I ordered mine in UK as soon as it popped up so cheers Martin

A German company called Fredericus Rex make some laser and resin 1/72 US western buildings in their green line series at a good price .Good people .

Here are a couple of shios .Some parts havnt been attached yet and more work needed .

OK .I will fess up .I have built one .iIs very tricky and the material has no forgive in it and not a strong as brass of course .After a few false starts I got it working .Its far better with a Kato N

I thought the whole program far too ambitious for a minority part of the hobby.I assume Bachmann factories made them as there similarities with Bachmanns higher end models in quality and style like th

These will be way too expensive for me over here in the UK but they look fine models .The Blackstone locos look like they are made by Kader so maybe they will take it all over like in the UK where Bac