To tell you the truth, on MY layout, I don't expect people to be seeing the bottoms of my freight cars on a regular basis - is this anything akin to putting on clean underwear before you leave home?
Bob --- In [email protected], Bob Werre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John, Don, and friends, > A couple of years ago I ragged on AM for an entirely different > reason--the backward (or is it upside down) floor on his boxcar/reefer. > If you build the car as per instructions the brake appliances all face > the wrong way. I had several people 'flame' me, some stating that > Atheran had done there floor backward also and that I shouldn't pick on > AM. Of course, we know that Ron B has copied much of what Atheran has > done, so the mistakes are copied too. My problem is that after selling > thousands of boxcars (and hence paid for the tooling!), couldn't the > floor be redesigned to correct the mistake? I didn't mind adding the > grabs and some of the other detail items, but matching the paint got to > be a chore. So if one rebuilds the underbody, adds the grabs, match the > paint you can have a nice looking car, although the car is somewhat > short in height. I stopped building after 6-8 cars and the Pacific > Rail cars started coming. Not too long after that SHS line of three > boxcars helped to make interesting trains. Now I need to complete my > Kaslo PS-1, Standard Railway's conversion and a Fowler boxcar that is > coming--wow who would have thunk it! all those cars! > > Bob Werre > > John Picur wrote: > > >With all due respect, there is far worse than this that has been produced in > >S Scale in the past five years. For example, when will American Models > >discover that freight cars require certain safety devices, such as > >grabirons? End lettering would be nice, too. And don't get me started on > >their passenger cars -- such heart-warming gaffs as vestibules in the > >baggage sections of combines. That is sheer lunacy. Their level of "scale > >fidelity" was obsolete by the end of the 1970s. > > > >Sorry to pick on AM -- I am disappointed with them because they actually > >have several items I would gladly buy if they would redesign them to > >scale -- because all of the so-called scale manufacturers have made > >unsightly errors in some of their products. ... pqr > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > > >>The most glaring example of callous disregard for prototypical appearance > >>of > >>"scale" models in my memory is Athern's EMD truck sideframes ... > >> > >>Fred T. > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > >To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL; to reply to the sender, use REPLY. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list (remember to edit the SUBJECT of your message). > > > >To use our CALENDAR or LINKS, change message settings, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL; to reply to the sender, use REPLY. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list (remember to edit the SUBJECT of your message). To use our CALENDAR or LINKS, change message settings, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
