How to Use
FauxToys Wraps

The How-To Section
contains Instructions and Demonstrations on how to use FauxToys products
and also has general Hints and Tips for working with toy trains.


FauxToys Instructions and Demonstrations
Instructions
for Installing FauxToys Wraps

Select the Style of Car You Wish to Build.

 

Boxcar, Refrigerator Car, Stockcar (Cattle Car)
Gondola Car (Low Side), Hopper Car, High Gondola Car - Side Dump Car
Tankcar - Flatcar - Pickle-Vat Car, Helium Car
Work Train Dormitory and Similar Cars - Troop-Train Cars -
Rotary Snowplow - Caboose - Tender

Coach, Diner, Baggage Car, Mail Car, Round-End Observation
Platform Observations
- Open Platform Cars (Old Time and Circus)

Commodore Vanderbilt Loco - Canadian Pacific/3000 Loco (coming soon)

Demonstrations

 

Basic Demonstration (See How Easy It Is)
Refinishing a Ratty Tankcar
Saving a Hopeless Hopper (coming soon)

Salvaging a Rustbucket CP Loco (coming soon)


General Info, Hints and Tips
Tools and Techniques
for Refinishing and Repairing Cars

 

Tools for Working with Tin Cars - (coming soon)
Disassembling Marx® Cars - (coming soon)

Repainting Tin Cars - (coming soon)
The Motor Tool
Double-Stick Tape
Paste Wax

The Roll-Opening Tool

Hints and Tips
for Toy Train Hobbyists

 

Making Front Couplers for Marx® Engines
Coupler Substitutes for Marx® Cabooses
Working with Sheetmetal Curves
Filling Slots in Sheetmetal Cars
Metallic Buffing Paste for Oxidized Plating
Limiting Coupler Movement (Marx® Sliding Couplers)
Repairing a Plastic Pilot (Cowcatcher) (coming soon)
Identifying Marx® Engines and Cars

SEE HOW EASY IT IS to convert a worn-out car into a shiny new centerpiece for your train.

NOTE: FauxToys does not sell complete locomotives or cars.
Products are printed wraps to convert existing cars and engines to new styles and colors.
"Marx" is a registered trademark of Marx Toys, Inc. and Marx Trains. FauxToys has no connection with either company.

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