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Thanks! Just a rattle can, both primer and the black. Some sort of acrylics, it dries fast (even faster with a hair dryer) and give pretty good results.

That will work as well indeed and although it takes more time that way you actually remove the release agent instead of only making it not visible anymore.

@@SmallGardenRailroadyou want to remove the release agent as it is not productive for the end result. I don’t think it harms the plastic, but it doesn’t help. I worked in a Stove plant as a tooling director for several years, all of our drawn parts went to a high pressure high temperature washer to have all agents removed before further processing.

These pens are magic indeed

Thanks for your comment. Glad you like it. It was fun to build. God bless!

Thanks for your comment and sorry for my late reply. I missed your comment until now. Actualy I use 10W40 car motoroil for all my trains (this 1957 engine is one of the most "modern" ones I have). I think back than there were less options than today and normal oil, sewing machine oil or handy oil was common to use for it. The old maintenance leaflets also only mention "oil" without further explanation. It are all metal gears, no plastics etc. I got the idea for 10W40 from BenzTrainz on TH-cam and it works great for these older trains. I would not recommend it for modern trains ( like from the 80's to present).

Oh and yes, the cotton filled tube is indeed designed to put in some oil for lubrication. It was pretty standard for Hornby motors. I believe the plastic Lionel Scout motors had a similar cotton filled opening to lubricate.

Thank you! I'm very pleased with the result. Perhaps I paint the cab roof red and add some numbers to make it a bit more interesting. Thank for watching and commenting!

These Lionel 1121 switches have no guide rails. This makes them "friendly" for the thicker geared Marx wheels. If the thick wheel is on the outer rail of the straight side of the turn off it runs very smooth actually. If it is in the inner rail it tend to jump a very little sometines, but still work fine. In the video you see the 999 runs with the thick wheels on the inner rail. You can notice the engine makes 'little jumps' on the switches but run through them without a problem. The 1121's are actually prewar and still produced a few years after (the ones I have are the late version 1121's). It was replaced by the 1122, but these had the guide rails and are not useable with Marx trains. Btw: I found your channel now too and are looking forward to see videos on your custom build locomotives!

Yes indeed, German made in late 30's (1939) by the Technofix company. Although I believe in the 30's the company was still named "Gebrüder Einfalt" (Einfalt brothers) and the name Technofix was used after the war / since early 50's. The 2 windup cars came as a set with an 8 shaped tinplate circuit. It had a traffic light were the roads crossed in the middle of the 8. The circuit had a mechanism: one car stopped automaticly at the traffic light until it was released by the other car passing the traffic light and this repeated itself. There were 2 versions: a "continental" one with a traffic light and one for the British market (I believe it had a traffic controler / policeman instead of a traffic light). The cars are very close to scale to use with 0 scale trains.