Modeling topic

Working with decals that cover the full side of the car

Sun, 2019-10-13 04:44 — cnwnorthline@ya...

Good morning, 

I've purchased some large scale decals like the following:

http://www.moondograilcars.com/product_p/ich001.htm

I haven't found any resources or tips for using decals that cover the entire car.  Before use get the decals wet, any advice to avoid wrinkling or ruining these decals?  It seems like I've got one shot to get it right and I'd like to get it right the first time.  

Thanks for any help!

-Matt

 

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A car handling question

Sat, 2019-10-12 12:52 — Graham Line

In 1979, what were the car placement and handling requirements of propane tank cars on a local turn? 

We have a club member insisting that an idler car be used between the locomotive and the tank car at all times, whether in switching operations or in transit.  Actually, he wants to place a designated idler car at the industry.

Marc's picture

A so easy to use paint which cost nothing...

Sat, 2019-10-12 04:50 — Marc

 

I have already mentionned the use of cheap craft acrilyc paint to paint our models.

This is important for you because of the demise of Floquil and Polly scale.

Sure I don't ask to open again the debate, but I beleive many are looking too far to find a good color and pay too much for it.

 

I discover a few months ago the fabulous work of Jason Jensen; he use only CHEAP ACRILYCS CRAFT PAINT for his modeling paint work.

 

Weighting Walthers Mainline Passenger Cars

Sat, 2019-10-12 03:51 — mstsman

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to add weight to Walthers Mainline 85' passenger cars?

Thanks,

Bob

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2 evenings - rebuild Heljan roundhouse

Fri, 2019-10-11 16:37 — DougL

I found an unpainted built-up model of the Heljan roundhouse at a railroad club tag sale.  I wiped some mortar into one panel of painted bricks, dusted it with weathering powder, and it looked really good, so I decided to break it down and give it a 2-evening makeover with simple stuff I can get from a craft or hobby store, using only moderate building skills. It would be even easier starting with anew, unbuilt model.

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Tillig track & turnouts

Fri, 2019-10-11 12:10 — railandsail

As I mentioned just recently I was visiting with Michael Rose this past weekend and he was showing me some of the finer points about the Tillig brand track and turnouts he was utilizing in his current build. I wanted to see what else might have been written about this hardware as we don't see its name that often in American model railroading.

Could that be because its a German product, and we automatically classify it as a European train product rather than American?

It sure looked impressive to me.

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Homemade static grass adventure

Thu, 2019-10-10 20:04 — rrfaniowa
I thought I would share my static grass adventure. 
 

Diary of the mad modeler

Mon, 2019-10-07 23:24 — Radissonmcguire

Let's go back in time shall we the year was 2002 at the Montgomery Alabama Union station are young model railroader who was attending a juvenile diabetes fundraiser didn't really care about the food or the games or his friends being there he was infatuated with 5 military trains within 6 hours going south more than likely heading to Iraq. Now it's fast forward to 2018. Sitting around at a milsim event. "airsoft war games".

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Working on the Shippensburg Classification Yard...

Mon, 2019-10-07 20:02 — JLandT Railroad

 

Working on the alterations to Shippensburg Classification Yard today, the changes will allow local freights to be made up from an arriving freight from “the rest of the world” via Staging.

 


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