Sets of rolling plastic drawers are great for storing medium-sized tools, like rulers, cutters, screwdrivers and so forth. You can then roll the tools to wherever you need them—next to the workbench, under the layout, out to the garage—without having to tote individual tools all over the place.

Passengers in MTL Empire Builder dome cars

By Mike Scully

June 2009

Step 1: paint passengers on sprue. 

This is my project to add passengers [ ... ]

I've read lots of advice, howto, intro, and helpful things on the internet about modeling railroads.

But nowhere is there any information for the beginner, [ ... ]

I've finally added as much plaster cloth as I expect I'll need, and have moved on to priming the base before painting it.  Priming made it look unfamiliar, [ ... ]