Rolling stock (and buildings for that matter) can be very delicate with lots of fine and delicate detailing. However, unless you live in a vacuum, dust has an annoying habit of getting on to everything and you will want to get rid of it from time to time.

Blowing it away doesn't always work and the use of a cloth (even a soft one) can be disastrous for the tiny bits so I looked for an alternative and have discovered that a ladies powder brush make the ideal duster. These are widely available at prices from about 3 pounds/euros/dollars (although the more you pay the better quality you get). I paid about 5 pounds for mine, it is incredibly soft and causes no damage to anything and it is very effective at removing dust from even the tiniest cracks and crevices.

One of my locos (E60) has a balcony at one end which is too narrow for the powder brush to access so I have recently augmented my cleaning tools with an eye-shadow brush, which is equally soft but with much shorter and narrower fibres.

I can thoroughly recommend this approach to cleaning and have found it highly effective so I thought that I would pass on this tip.

Hi,

I got very good results using http://cyberclean.net/ (home + office - version).

Regards

Markus

Camera lens cleaning brushes with a squeeze bulb for blowing the dust away start at about 50c.