One puzzle for me recently has been assembling more working examples of sprung Graceline trucks. Their Andrews trucks were introduced in 1941, and the other
Besides the full floor castings seen on Lionel boxcars, the Nason cast boxcar, and a number of Scale-Craft models (boxcars, stock cars, and late style
Slowly I have been working with the resin castings for the boxcar and hopper, and building up the models. Which has had a learning curve
I have a soft spot for Graceline cars with the hand painted sides. This particular car I have owned for some 20 years but
Part of my recent push to work on reefers involved these three Scale-Craft reefers. They were all in pretty rough shape and were missing
Continuing the series, I have kept plugging away on this project of trying to make resin castings of American OO car bodies. The initial
Over the years I know that I tend to get going on projects that are not what I thought I might get going on.
In the set from Micro-Mark they include a casting resin. It is the medium type of what they sell in terms of speed to cure
Going way back to my roots in American OO, when I was in high school I was making molds and castings with the help of
If you have worked with any Scale-Craft trucks you know that a percentage of the Bakelite bolsters have shrunk and warped. In this condition, they
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