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Quick Tip : grabirons

Thu, 2018-10-25 11:27 — dave1905

If you need a size grab iron that you don't have, particularly a straight one, here's an easy way to make them.

HO Paving Tool - 3D Print Files

Wed, 2018-10-24 18:03 — mdlafond

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3174846 This is a paving tool I designed in Sketchup to provide an easy way to maintain a consistent width and thickness of drywall compound “paving”. I’ve sized this to match the height of code 100 rail. While very handy, I must warn you it took 4 hours to print on my Printrbot Play. Let me know what you think, either here, or you can email me at mdlafond@yahoo.com.

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Interesting Paint / Primer discussion

Sun, 2018-10-21 05:28 — railandsail

A gentleman with a lot of experience in painting models is building a lifting bridge, and painting it via airbrush.

I thought some of his observations about the painting of the plastic model were quite interesting.

http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/272380.aspx?page=2

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Getting glue off of styrene

Sat, 2018-10-20 02:19 — manofkountry

I was given a sheet of styrene (.080) about 4' x6'. This is a great score but.....it has had some sort of contact cement applied to one side. I find that rubbing with my fingers removes the glue but this would be incredibly time consuming to clean up using only fingers. I tried a corner with spraying WD-40 (recommended by a friend) which work fairly well at removing the glue but left a funky film on the styrene. Does anyone have a recommendation on how I might remove this glue?

Substitute for Floquil on wooden models?

Tue, 2018-10-16 11:22 — WCrocca

Recently I exhausted my supply of Floquil boxcar red. I tried using Scalecoat 1 on a wood model. Although Scalecoat 1 on brass models gives beautiful results, I am disappointed with the resultant finish when used on wood. I won't use it on wood again. Floquil gave gorgeous results on wood surfaces, even when brushed on, and I would like to continue duplicating such fine results. Has anyone found a reasonable substitute for Floquil?

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Athearn GP-9 bodies on a Proto 2000 Gp-9 chassis

Sun, 2018-10-14 18:29 — KHaus41369

Since I know mechanically the Athearn BB and proto 2000 are similar, my question is can bodies of the Athearn BB GP-9 fit on the Proto 2000 GP-7/9 chassis?? I'm asking because I have a couple of detailed and custom painted BB GP-9 bodies on unpowered chassis...and a few brand new Proto 2000 GP-7 and 9s.