Found out something interesting today.  A while ago I wanted to try UV activated epoxy.  I’ve got some in my mouth and it seems to want to stay there so I figured it might be handy.  I ordered the cheapest thing I could find on eBay coming from China and waited for it to arrive.  When it did I tried dripping some on a part and then shining the light from the associated UV flashlight that came with the liquid epoxy.  The epoxy took its time getting a skin on and I finished it off on the back porch railing.

Yesterday, I managed to stop into a local hobby shop, and I acquired done very neat trains, one of which is one I have been after for years, being the Tyco Golden Eagle, the other I got was the Tyco Transformers train, for 15 and 20

I have been practicing my CAD skills over the past few years, and recently, I decided to design freight cars, detail parts, and other models. As an N scale modeler, I have been involved in the hobby for many years now and have noticed that there is a certain limit manufacturers reach when producing models: only a certain amount of new models can be researched, CADed, tooled, manufactured, and released every year.

The Wilmington Car Shop has been busy.  Since the temps are so low I've stopped cutting benchwork in the garage and have taken time catch up on some rolling stock projects.

K4 decals made some LV boxcar decals and I bought a sheet.  One sheet will letter 4 cars, so I went whole hog and am building 4 cars.