Tools, tips and tricks
How do you clean and oil your engines?
I hope you would share your thoughts and experience about how you clean and oil your engines.
Different views and methods are appreciated.
I think MRH columnist Bruce P did a very thoroughfare column in the january 2013 issue of MRH. He shows how he cleans the Kato NW2 and oils it. He literarily takes the engine apart, clean the gears in an ultrasonic cleaner and lubricates it with NanoOil and NewerStall.
Portable Spray Booths Questions??
I have been looking at the various portable spray booths that are listed on Ebay and in Micro Mark. They look nice despite some of the reviews that they are underpowered. I like the portability and could ocationaly take it to my RR club and use it there.
Weathering with Mike Confalone: Project 7-CP Rail boxcar
For project 7, Mike Confalone weathers a green CP Rail boxcar. Mike focuses in-depth on weathering a boxcar roof with oils, since that part of the weathering process has not yet been covered. The rest of the car was finished previously off camera using PanPastels and techniques that have been covered in many of the other segments.
Feb 2016-6 - More effective use of track gauges
Miles Hale returns to TrainMasters TV to host a new bonus series: "Back to the Workbench". He’ll bring you tips from his basement workshop as he builds his layout. This month: More effective use of track gauges.
Dremel Micro motor tool
I am attempting to use Bruce Petrarca's technique of making many #70 holes in a plastic tender coal load to let the sound of a speaker out. My "Dremel" isn't a real Dremel. It's a Canadian Tire brand. I tried to use it with the #70 bit but even at its lowest setting it was much too fast. I have no idea what the speed setting is however. I am looking at the variable speed Dremel Micro. The manual says that its lowest speed is 5000 rpm. Will this be slow enough to drill with the #70 bit?
Changing the tender on a Bachmann 0-6-0 (or 2-6-0) (N scale)
So I found an N-scale Bachmann Spectrum Nickel Plate Road tender with a healthy price reduction and bought it, thinking along the lines of 'With this I can probably take various steam locos produced in different road names and make them into NKP locos'.
I was wondering if anyone has tried attaching this tender to the Bachmann 2-6-2 (which I have one of already, but which the Nickel Plate Road never did, so far as I can tell from the Historical Society's steam roster), or, to the Bachmann 0-6-0?
First Post - Painting Track - Colour Testing
After a couple of years of following other modelers blogs and reading everyone's tips, tricks, how to's etc, I've finally decided to post something I've started working on.
Feedback, tips, tricks (especially for masking the rail), etc. are always helpful and appreciated.
Optivisors
Hello, I'm considering buying an Optivisor for all that close up detailing work. I know that I can get various separate lenses for it, to increase it's magnification, but would like to kno what the best 'average' magnification is, would that be the version with 2x magnification?
In other words, which magnification do you find yourself using most of the time?
Many thanks, Koos
1st drawing, paint booth design
I am expecting my blower fan to get here soon so I figured I would draw up some plans. I used Xtrackcad to draw it because I have no idea how to draw without it. Works pretty well.
Weathering with Mike Confalone: Project 6-B&O coal hopper
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