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Ahh, Jon; You THINK you goofed on a 1/4 of them; they look great! It's the roughness that gives them that home-road quality! Makes it look like the guy really slobbered it on there... I Model the Lackawanna and the EL. One of the things that endeared me to the EL (aside from watching it go...

Hi Michael; I, too, am surprised at the lack of responses to your question. While certainly not a steam guru, or even a diesel guru (or any kind of guru, for that matter), there are a few simple points to keep in mind. First off, congratulations for realizing that you do need to take care...

Hey Jon; Nice work! I really like your lettering, too... As far as weathering your couplers, I wish I had masked off my Kadees before weathering with diluted Floquil that I airbrushed on. Problem is, the ultra-flat Floquil makes the coupler faces bind up, enough that I have to hold on to the...

Thanks, Marty! :) Jim

Hi all; I have four Atlas Classic locos (2 GP-7, 2 RS-3) locos that I have purchased NCE DASR decoders for. My question is, does anyone know what voltage their stock headlight bulbs are; should I replace them with Miniatronics to prevent bulb burnout (such as one would do with Life-Like P2K)...

Tom; Someone (Vic?) hit on the solution; simply pre-paint both sides with any latex paint. That will help the curling issue, at least with paper-backed foam. I haven't seen the plastic-backed foam in years (like, 20 years); one neat thing about the plastic-backed stuff was that you could very...

Casey, I think tankertoad and nycentral were getting to the root of it; I feel that it's because of the fact that Floquil has been around for so long that it became the standard... Great strides have been made in paint formulations; I never would have considered using Badger Model-Flex, esp...

Hey folks; Also bear in mind that the "new" breed of knuckle couplers, the ones with the little plastic "tab-type-knuckle-spring" instead of the Kadee phosphor-bronze coil knuckle spring, when parked on a grade (with the locos on the downhill end) or even level with the slack run in, the...

Howdy all; I'm new to the gauge, so bear with me as I learn the ins and outs of everything. I have a technique for gluing wood that some of you may like to try. First thing to do, as usual, is to stain your wood. If you intend to paint your project, then skip to step 2, which is to spray...