To aid assembling parts with CA as well as to avoid unintentionally bonding a model to something, I assemble the parts on the surface of an old stainless steel ruler. The CA bonds to the stainless just enough to help hold parts in alignment while they set, but it's easy enough to gently pop them off the ruler with the tip of a sharp knife.

Is so awesome!! Not exactly prototypical, but Milwaukee Road none the less! So glad someone made this!!

A favorite animated film of mine is "The Man Who Planted Trees".  In it, a man spends a lifetime planting trees, and in different ways, affecting thousands [ ... ]

Creation actually began in January of 2008 as part of a New Year's resolution to get my trains up and running. I had looked at book and magazines for [ ... ]