There are some interesting things to note with these stock cars, tank cars, and the flat car by Disney artist James (Jimi) Trout. First
With the end of summer I’ve needed some simpler projects, and went back to the collection of cars built by James Trout to do some
One thing you need on train cars are trucks. Bill Gilbert has been focusing on building a fleet of 19th century cars lately, and with
Recently restored were these tank cars, both kitbashed in August, 1993 by Bill Johann. I have actually a group of 8 different tank cars
As a postscript to the Castings series, beyond the cars I have assembled already, a group of kits were put together from the runs of
The name of James Trout has come up a few times in this site now, but for quick reference he was a longtime Disney illustrator
It is fairly well known in the American OO community that the Mantua/Tyco 4-6-0 is actually a 1/76 scale model, but gauged to run on
The final model of this project has been completed in two versions, standard and open versions of the Graceline quad hopper. In Part V
Since last summer I have been working on a project to reproduce a couple of uncommon, classic American OO models in resin castings. In the
One material used for many pre-war American OO models, especially locomotives, is sand-cast bronze. As implied by the terms used, the mold used to make
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