I've spent many interesting and useful hours viewing videos and reading posts/articles/pdfs about painting (rolling stock and locomotives particularly) but I cannot recall ever coming across anything that focused primarily on repairing minor scratches/dings our models (particularly the ones we actually operate) can accumulate.  I have a few items that could use a bit of patch work but I'm not really prepared to strip them down to the bare shell/brass unless boxed into a corner.  Some of what I have was purchased painted by the factory so I have no idea what brand

Hello everybody,

I recently bought a broken Bachmann 2-10-4 Texas Chugger, and decided to repair it. I also filmed it and made a video, so I decided to share it here in case anyone was interested. Let me know what you think. For whatever reason, movie maker did not like the input and sort of messed up the audio and made some sections of the video choppy. The sound is much cleaner when heard in person. Keep in mind that i'm an amateure, so take EVERYTHING I say with a grain of salt. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmH6XhaGD-U

I was lucky enough to see a rare parallel departure from Castlemaine Station with one train set as a double haeder. This pair was bought up to Castlemaine as the Victorian Goldfeilds Railway (VGR) needed more motive power for the tourist trains they run between Maldon and Castlemaine over approximately 20kms (approx 13 mile) of track in the southern Australian state of Victoria and approximately 2 hours north of the capitol city Melbourne.

Hi everyone,

I have successfully finished my first brass steam repower and DCC conversion on a 1960's Tenshodo Great Northern C-1 0-8-0. Everything works but I have a minor issue.