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  • The Master Plan of the Carthage & Galisteo

    Models tell a story. For now, my models are built almost entirely to serve my proto/freelance hybrid HO scale railroad layout, the Carthage & Galisteo. My necessarily small layout is intended to serve almost as a diorama for perfecting modeling skills: I am going for quality over quantity. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.…

  • D&RGW Fowler Clone Resin Kit by Westerfield Part 2

    Continuation of this post, which got a bit image-heavy. Roof Next, the roof needed slicing with a fresh razor blade and breaking in half. It ended up breaking all the way in half, but a few short pieces of Tamiya masking tape kept it in place for construction. The end walks required brass strips. In…

  • D&RGW Fowler Clone Resin Kit by Westerfield Part 1

    This time around is my second resin car kit build, a 40′ Fowler clone box car from Westerfield, kit number 6453 [6453 FOWLER SS BOX CAR CLONE, MODERN, D&RG, D&RGW]. Protocraft has some prototype photos, as does Eric Hansmann. Sanding Out The first thing to do in this kit was deal with how thick the…