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On another note, I wonder if in a few years time there will be a collector's market for boxed athearn bluebox kits that are no longer in production. I know it's sort of happening already, with certain OOP bluebox loco kits fetching more than they normally do... EDIT: Just to clarify, we...

I used to get that problem painting whitemetal wargames figures with acrylic. When I spoke to one of the Games Workshop employees he said that the best thing to do is give it a few layers of varnish to protect it. That's what I do now with all my metal models, be it wargames figures or handrails.

The handrails and whatnot were probably not applied because painting a model requires that all the detail parts are removed to achieve an even finish and to make the job a lot neater. What we need to do is buy one of their decorated kits and see how easily it goes together.

Don't use Walthers, they're extortionately expensive and have a poor range. Try discounttrainsonline.com - just a quick rundown of the companies in their buildings range: AM Models American Limited Models American Model Builders Atlas B.T.S. Bachmann Bar Mills Billboards Blair Line Boley...

They're no longer going to bring out NEW BB kits, their new kits are going to be aimed at more experienced modellers, and also they're gradually phasing out their old bb kit range. These facts are all plain to see on their website. It doesn't take a genius to work out that in a few years time...

It would be cool if someone with a lot of money and business acumen could take the moulds off of Athearns hands and start producing them under a seperate company. It would be a massive undertaking, and may even fail, but it would certainly fill a gap in the model market that may get bigger in time.

I don't see how the fact that this is his first weathered stuff negates the fact that we should offer any advice. Surely it would mean that we should give MORE advice than normal to help him progress as fast as possible? I don't see how anyone could have a problem with offering advice on how...

18" will probably just about take a 60 foot passenger car. Thats only a rough guess though, cause I'm not used to HO radii - I use British 4mm to the foot rolling stock rather than 3.5 mm to the foot, so "60 foot" cars to me are more like "70 foot" cars in your scale. When I'm running American...

Even though RD was perhaps a little brash in his approach, I have to commend him for having the guts to actually criticise TLs work and make suggestions for where he can go to get ideas. People seem to be crowding around this Trucklover guy giving excessive praise, and while it's fine to give...

Indeed, there will always be a market - if you make anything there will always be a market. The question is profitability. It's apparantly not profitable for Athearn to make cheap models, even if they breed customers who will want more expensive stuff as they grow up with the hobby.. Athearn...

I am in two minds as to whether this is a good or a bad thing. On the one hand, the cheapy BB models were, and are, new modeller's first steps on their way to superdetailing and other model improvements, including correcting flaws. On the other hand, models these days are so accurate that...

Yeah, that sounds like it would be interesting - I imagine in real life all the freight would be courier, IE railroad owned or leased rolling stock, or just general freight, and the passenger cars would probably have the prison name on it. What are you going to do about locos? I mentioned bars...

Companies like Details West and Hi Tech sell finer detailed horns to replace the ones you get on "out of the box" models. Walthers are a bit expensive - try discounttrainsonline.com, they're pretty cheap and they sell practically every detail part known to man.

I've seen some really weird layouts in my time - a prison in a remote place seems logical in comparison to a railroad that carries batteries from a recharging station to the bottom of a quarry, or a railroad carrying fishfood from the stores, and tips it in the lake at a fish farm! A prison...

Those are some great contributions to the thread there buddy. I especially agreed with the bit where you said "hhhhhhhhggggggggggggggggg". LOL. Either your keyboard is shot or you're spamming. :P

I'm not interested in those, they cost FAR too much money for the product you get. I'd rather pay the £120 ($210) for a Bachmann 2-8-0 that I can turn into a nice small Baldwin 2-8-2 with a little work.

Mmm, it's certainly "unique", it would be interesting to see how much operation use you could get out of it. On the Sci-Fi computer game "Half Life 2" there's a prison called "Nova Prospekt" which is run by an alien race known as the Combine - it's where civillians are brought in on Combine...

This was quite a while ago. It may not have even been in Africa, my memory of it is very vague.

My only gripe with plaster has been that it is too brittle once it has cured, so I might try this hydrostone stuff... FYI, there are lots of resin moulding kits out there - if you wanted you could use one of these to take a rubber mould of your plaster abutment, and then produce them in resin...

To be honest, it's going to be very hard to make a loop layout realistic. By the sounds of it you value your realism, and I'd say you're the kind of person who'd prefer an end-to-end layout rather than a loop, simply because it's more realistic. If I'm right, then you should use this layout as a...