Tools
In our store we carry a wide variety of model railroad construction tools. You will also find gauges for the various scales in our inventory. If you are looking for something specific, don't hesitate to ask. This page only shows a few of the items in our inventory.
Model Railroading Paints
Papa Ben's is proud to be a U.S. dealer for "RailCenter" brand Ammo paints. All of their colors match shades used by most of the world's major railway companies. With the Rail Center paints, you will be able to quickly paint all types of rolling stock as well as buildings or specific parts of your model. Rail Center is formulated with the highest quality, providing the railway modeler with extremely durable finishes and highly authentic colors. With this exclusive new formula, these paints can be applied with a brush to produce a smooth and uniform surface with very little effort. This acrylic series can be also sprayed through the airbrush using their AMMO.R-0500 thinner.
We have a display rack at the store featuring over 40 colors.
Crest smoke fluid
Bullfrog Snot
"Bullfrog Snot" is a sophisticated, specially formulated, room temperature curing, one-part "green" liquid plastic with very unique properties. It was concocted and brewed by a veteran N-scaler specifically to be the ideal solution for improving traction on model railroads, but it can surely apply to numerous other quirky little problems (Monorails, turntables, slot cars, Lego wheels, driveshaft couplings on engines and switch machines, as a DCC insulator, sewing machines, etc.) left to be discovered by your creative fertile imagination.
Rainbow First Coats Paint Set
Includes five primary colors: From these five colors you can mix to create any color in any shade, dark or light. Chooch has joined with Americana Paints to offer the most creative assortment of water-base acrylic paints in model making. Designed to make any color and weather any model. Each of the three assortments 5 colors with a specific purpose in a 3-Stage process. Though not intended for airbrush, each color is designed to brush a series of washes in two or three steps. These washes are made to wash color OVER the Base Coat of solid color, for example Box Car Red or Reefer Yellow. These colors are full-bodied paints, made to dilute with water for washes of any intensity. Virtually every color is translucent. Stage 1 use #510, stage 2 use #511, stage 3 use #512.
Weathering Earthtones Paint Set
Includes five colors for weathering and aging. This is the stage where your model comes alive. Chooch has joined with Americana Paints to offer the most creative assortment of water-base acrylic paints in model making. Designed to make any color and weather any model. Each of the three assortments 5 colors with a specific purpose in a 3-Stage process. Though not intended for airbrush, each color is designed to brush a series of washes in two or three steps. These washes are made to wash color OVER the Base Coat of solid color, for example Box Car Red or Reefer Yellow. These colors are full-bodied paints, made to dilute with water for washes of any intensity. Virtually every color is translucent. Stage 1 use #510, stage 2 use #511, stage 3 use #512.
Weathering First Coats Paint Set
Includes five special colors for first stage weathering. Chooch has joined with Americana Paints to offer the most creative assortment of water-base acrylic paints in model making. Designed to make any color and weather any model. Each of the three assortments 5 colors with a specific purpose in a 3-Stage process. Though not intended for airbrush, each color is designed to brush a series of washes in two or three steps. These washes are made to wash color OVER the Base Coat of solid color, for example Box Car Red or Reefer Yellow. These colors are full-bodied paints, made to dilute with water for washes of any intensity. Virtually every color is translucent. Stage 1 use #510, stage 2 use #511, stage 3 use #512.
HO- or larger Kit
Kit with one each 102,106 and 107 for "HO" and larger scales and also for Radio Control cars, planes.
LAB-A Coupler Lubricant for HO-, N- and Z-scales
LAB-A Coupler Lubricant for S-, O-, and Larger Scales (also for Outdoor Railways)
LAB-A DCC / DC Track Conditioner
LAB-A fine oil for Z / N / Sm / HO locos
LAB-A grease with PTFE
LAB-A Labelle Motor Cleaning System (For all Scales)
LAB-A medium oil for LGB / O / HO locos
LAB-A Micro-fine powder with PTFE
LAB-A Micro-fine powder with PTFE "the slickest substance known to man"
LAB-A synthetic light gear oil
LAB-A synthetic multi-purpose oil med
NOT COMPATIBLE WITH PLASTIC PARTS. Being Discontinued.
LAB-A synthetic multi-purpose oil very light
NOT COMPATIBLE WITH PLASTIC PARTS. Being Discontinued.
N-/Z-scale Kit
Kit with one each 102,106 and 108 for N and Z Scales.
Self-adhering Weathering Powders
Introducing self-adhering weathering pigment, available in convenient matching sets:
rust & dust #2911: medium earth / new fresh rust /light rust $19.99
grit & grime #2912: grimy black / rusty brown / dark earth $19.99
grime & rust #2913: ash gray / soot black / dark rust $19.99
dirt & rust #2914: medium rust / delta dirt / dry mud $19.99
Teeny Turner
Very small driver for those teeny screws, only 2.75 inches long. Stores 6 bits in the handle, plus one in the shaft. Phillips 00, Phillips 0, Slotted 2mm, Slotted 3mm, Torx 5, Torx 6, Torx 8.
Smoke Pellets
Each bottle contains 50 smoke pellets for Lionel steam locomotives.
Model 2175ET Professional Sprue Cutter
Available now are two new tools by Xuron. Designed for scale modelers by a scale modeler! Slice those hard-to-reach parts from the sprue tree with ease with the new Xuron® Model 2175ET Professional Sprue Cutter. Every master modeler has a core selection of precision modeling tools.