We're having so much fun with brass engines, let's try something else.

This model started as a Walthers Mainline International bay window caboose in BN Green. Windows were filled and the body scrubbed and primed for WP Caboose Red. Lettering is Microscale 87-448 with the insert sheet for WP steel cabooses 1955+. The only added parts are Kadees and the curved Tichy caboose grabs.

Hi everyone,

Any recommendations for ways to secure a 2-56 in resin temporarily for an HO truck. I am building a resin kit and after threading the kit screw locations, they seem a bit loose. Resin seems to lack the bite that metal or styrene seem to have.

Thanks.

Has anyone found a good acrylic color match for CP caboose yellow?  I believe Polly Scale had a paint named CP caboose yellow.  Also there appears to have been a slight change in the color CP used or it was due to fading since the wide vision cabooses appear to by a browner yellow when compared to photos of other cabooses.  I am building a plywood sided cupola caboose.  Testors Model Master has a lot of different yellow colors!

Robert

I monitor both of these on a regular basis and just wonder if anyone else has a good place to search.  I'm more than a bit nervous about eBay given the price of some offerings there and the rather sparse descriptions often given items.  I'm looking for moderate size rodded locomotives but particularly for logging (either geared or rodded) in standard gauge HO.  Many places I used to look appear to be out of business or at best very inactive.