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      • Just a teaser
        01/23/08
      • An interesting find
        01/21/08
        Here's a suprise. i have always wanted to do a version of John Allens "squaw bottom depot". the problem is that there seem to be only two pictures of the burned up remains of the model. I had always believed that John made up this wimsical depot but I seem to be mistaken. While on an

      • Building a better model
        01/17/08
        In all thr years I have been doing this, I have found one trait of paper that is both a plus and a minus. Flexability.
        I want to focus on the negative for the purpose of this tip and how to fix it.
        Card stock has a springy quality. When you fold a piece of card you may notice that the su

      • A special offer
        01/16/08
        Our small town depot kit is really beautiful. It's available in HO and O right now.
        So here's the offer. For the next month (till feb16th) with every depot order we are sending along our new "wistle stop" kit FREE.
        The Depot is a big kit, the first of our master serie

      • About time
        01/16/08
        It's always about time isn't it? Time for work, time to be a good dad, good house keeper, or a good boy friend. we always think there's not enough but everything gets done anyway. I sent out another dozen kits today (then 10 came in too)but at least we are getting more current(i'

      • blog spam
        01/07/08
        I just discovered that all the spam that has been clogging my email is coming from this blog. well, at least its been tracked down. I had to do a bit of surgery, deleating a few key entries that were acting as a portol for the junk mail. If it work great. If not I may have to disable the talk back f

      • updating kits
        01/07/08
        A we sell more kits I sometime make additions or change parts to reflect what we have learned about paper and modeling in general. there are still a lot of tests I want to try. One of those is printing a kit in black and whit, actually gray and white. this would allow a builder to hand color/custom

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