Good Morning All. Mostly cloudy and 75°. Changed plans yesterday when my wife decided we needed to go to town (25 miles away). So we bought groceries, gas, pool chemicals (extended season this year), a new chair for the computer station and went to the library. Oh! We also stopped at the recycle center to drop off magazines, Salvation Army to drop off lots of clothes that we'll never fit into again and ordered some pizza to pick up and take home. Kind of a busy trip! But when you live so far out like we do, you make the most of your trips. We actually got it all done in three hours; pretty good considering a 25 mile drive each way!
Out in the train shed, I almost caught up with the backlog of Preiser figure painting, but I did add more to it! That was about it.
Someone brought up the subject of "Dust Monkeys", I have one installed on each of my 18 cabooses and they do a very good job. While I don't credit them exclusively for not having to clean track, they are a small part of my maintenance. They are an inexpensive substitute to the old-fashioned "masonite cars" which while cheap are hard to build and maintain.
Chet - I have heard that about Dull Coat and chalk. I do use Dull Coat before weathering (on all cars regardless of weathering plans), I only rarely touch cars and I have found that the chalk doesn't come off when I do.
Johnny - Don't be too wary, we were all in that position at one time. You asked
Chet about weathering powders. I use a four-color set from AIM. I use set "A" which has two shades of rust, a black and a dirt color. There are other companies like Bragdon, Dave's, Humbrol, MicroMark and others. Here's just one link to AIM:
http://monroemodels.us/aim.weathering.htm
They are available from several others but this shows the actual colors pretty good.
Eric - Nice flashlight find. All I ever find besides aluminum cans is fishing lures and I am not a fisherman!
OK, once again.
BOB, let's get this
"red screen/site blocked/malware present" thing fixed. I really dislike turning off my virus protection just to log on to this site.
Everyone have a great day and a great weekend. I'm starting my weekend today. Oooops! I'm retired, it's all weekends now!
Willie