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The Key PA / PB

I recently discovered my love for early passenger diesels. The Alco PA / PB locomotives are a great subject to modelling. These classy units in their distictive livery can be considered as the essence of ‘American railroading’ and what comes to mind for us Europeans. Since I model the UP and C&S, there is not …

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The Challenger

I’ve started my first passenger train project – a revolutionary new concept of rail travel at the time – The Challenger, train #8 between Los Angeles and Chicago. I’m modelling the first section of the consist with it’s coaches and chair cars. Researching the Project These cars were built by Pullman Standard in 1937 and …

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PFE Ice Reefer

This Intermountain injection plastic kit is a real gem – super fine details such as grab irons, rivets and ice hatches make this kit a must have for all O-scalers who model the old days. I have decided to build this one with open hatches as they were used in ventilation service, when products were …

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Cotton Belt Box Car

This Intermountain injection plastic kit needed some super detailing and back-dating into the steam era. You can still sense the modern era reporting marks “COTTON BELT” under the “St. Louis Southwestern” stenciling. It is my experience that overspraying with Tamiya grey primer is totally sufficient to make the lettering disappear. The rised caracter of the …

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Modeling Water

Recent test pieces of a river bed with resin water proof to become a realistic technique to model a realistic river. The white water will be three dimensional since I’ll add clear material over the basic wave that you see above. It’s a lot of fun to develop new techniques and I’ll make a video …

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