When I went to File Explorer to find a file today, I noticed my "Archive" hard drive was red lining. I went to find out why. On that drive are my personal files, music, pictures and my Model Rail folder.

The model rail folder contains all the info I have collected on my railway of choice, The Credit Valley Railway. As well as any photos and articles (both historical and hobby related) and digital magazines. Also any videos I have collected.

Here is what the Properties box looks like:

Now that our old reliable Floquil is truly gone, I have been looking at various acrylic paints for airbrushing. More specifically, the craft acrylics from Michaels, etc.  Many of the posts I have seen recommend adding retarder to the mix of paint and airbrush thinner. Those of you who have mixed up Joe Fugate's "High Performance Thinner" will know that the retarder from Liquitex or Golden is very thick. 

I finished up an older Athearn blue box boxcar and when installing the couplers I discovered one of the coupler boxes is defective.  Actually I think I made it defective by my own blundering but let's ignore that for now.  I have a bunch of these Kadee #232 gear boxes laying around from who knows where, so I'm thinking about dremeling off the coupler box and putting a new one on.

I'm finally about to take the plunge. Are there clones and/or should I only get the real deal?