An uncommonly seen model by Nason is their gondola. Introduced in 1940, it took me a while to find even one of these. Then, in
A car I have long puzzled about is the Nason All Service Express Car. It is a 60’ baggage car of a somewhat unusual design
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
A question recently came in related to Baker valve gear hangers. I had, honestly, not paid a lot of attention to valve gear types
This summer I started a project (here) to work out making resin castings of two rare, vintage American OO models, the Graceline quad hopper and
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
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
I don’t think that I am alone in saying that there is a vintage charm to sand cast models. I have no desire to do
Among some recent parts purchased was a Nason parts envelope. It is of the same style as they briefly used to sell decals in
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