We are two months away from the 2023 RPM Conference in Naperville, IL. The dates are October 27 & 28 and the event will be held in the Northern Illinois University Naperville campus conference center (seen in the lead photo). Registrations have been strong. We hope you are making plans to attend.
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Matt Smith has been busy. After some home improvements, he built a spray booth. Here’s his story!
Now that our basement work is finished, I need to build a proper spray booth. During renovations I reserved a small space in a closet where I could build a spray booth and attach venting to the duct work for our basement bathroom exhaust.
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Resin Car Works announces a new HO scale gondola kit! This is another one-piece car body casting to ease assembly time and effort.
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I shared a couple photos from the recent NERPM event with RCW honcho Frank Hodina. He liked Bob Cronin’s truck models and suggested a blog post. Bob obliged with several photos and notes from his processes. Here he is with the scoop.
My interest in trucks built in the 1950s and 60s dates back to my childhood and fits my model railroading era. I chose Sylvan Scale Models because they make HO scale resin vehicle models that are prototypical to the golden age of trucking.
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