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Painting wheelsets

“How to you paint your wheels?” That’s a frequent modeling question. I see it posted on internet forums and hear it at events. Many techniques and tools have been suggested in the model press, on YouTube, and in discussion forums. Here’s what I do.

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Author Eric HansmannPosted on March 1, 2022February 28, 2022Categories WeatheringTags details, wheels3 Comments on Painting wheelsets

Resource Pages

  • A guide to 1920s era HO scale plastic freight cars
  • A quick guide to Westerfield Models for a 1920s model railroad
  • Accurail Prototype Data
  • B&O Freight Car fleet of 1926
  • Car Builders’ Cyclopedias
  • Freight Car Fleets
  • RPM event calendar
  • USRA Freight Car Assignments
  • W&LE Freight Car Fleet of 1926

Archives

Blogroll

  • Bernie Kempinski’s US Military RR
  • Byron Henderson’s layout design thoughts
  • Chris Adams' Valley Local
  • Chris Ellis' Adena Railroad
  • Dave Abeles' Onondaga Cutoff
  • Don Ball’s Stockton & Copperopolis Railroad
  • Frank Hodina's Resin Car Works
  • Gary Ray's Southern Pacific Gerber Division, circa 1926
  • Gene Deimling's Proto:48 blog
  • George Dutka's White River Division
  • HAVOC: a circa 1923 Free-mo project
  • Hicks Car Works
  • Hunter Hughson's Niagara Branch
  • Jason Hill's Night Owl Modeler
  • John Golden's Railroad Prototype Modeler
  • Lester Breuer's Minneapolis & Northland modeling
  • Marshall Stull's Small Model Railroads
  • Marty McGuirk’s Central Vermont Railway
  • Michael Hauk's Susquehanna & New York
  • Mike Clements' Central Artery
  • Mike McNamara's Northeast Kingdom Railroad
  • Modeling Steam Era Freight Cars
  • Pierre Oliver's Southern Pacific Clovis Branch
  • Ralph Heiss' Lehigh Valley NY Harbor
  • Rene Gourley's Pembroke:87
  • Rick De Candido's 1935 – 1945 HO Scale Modeller
  • Riley Triggs' Port of New York railroad
  • Steve Haworth's RGS Thoughts and Mutterings
  • Ted Culotta's Prototype Railroad Topics
  • Tom Patterson's Chesapeake, Wheeling & Erie Railroad
  • Tony Thompson’s Southern Pacific
  • Trevor Marshall's Port Rowan in S scale

Links

  • A Modelers Life podcast
  • Bob Sprague's Ma & Pa in the 1920s
  • Chuck Cover's PRR Shamokin Branch
  • Dave Husman's Wilmington & Northern branch
  • Greg Amer's Industrial Lead
  • Jack Burgess' Yosemite Valley Railroad
  • Kelly Regan's B&O Georgetown Branch
  • Lance Mindheim's layout designs and builds
  • Michael Hohn’s Southern Central Rail-Road
  • Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine
  • Prototype Junction
  • Randy Hammill’s New Britain Station
  • South Elkins: an old project
  • The New York Harbor Railroad of Dave Ramos
  • The Patch, by Keith Jordan

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