The discussion about full-body kits or flat panel kits is interesting. One way or another Bud Rindfleisch and I hope to come up with a resin kit Milwaukee Road box car. For now let the production of an SAL turtle-back box car suffice. I certainly hope people on this list are sending their money in to make this a possibility. If the SAL car is a go, then perhaps--and I have not spoken with Jim King about this recently--we can also find enough people enthusiastic enough to commit to the Milwaukee Road car.
The point about such cars is that they were unique, and no mass production company--if that ever starts up again in China--is going to produce for S scales either an SAL turtleback car or a Milwaukee Road horizontally-ribbed car. No company could ever sell enough of them to make the tooling worth the investment. Neither car could be alternately lettered for Minneapolis & St. Louis, New York Central, or Rock Island or whatever other road one might wish to name: The cars were absolutely unique respectively to the SAL and the Milwaukee. Oh, yeah, I'm aware that a few Milwaukee ribbed cars did go to the WP, but that was later in their life. Let's give John Degnan our support. Tom ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of jaydeet2001 [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: flat panel kits --- In [email protected], "Bill Lane" <bill@...> wrote: > > But for most, myself included, I believe producing a flat panel kit now is a > step backwards. SMMW has perfected producing a 1 piece body casting. That is > no small affair and truly a wonderful thing. Sure, 1-piece kits are faster and easier to assemble. However, recent events have demonstrated that the S market is borderline at best for supporting the level of investment necessary for them. Flat kits may be the only way to reduce the "buy-in" to a level that S scale will support. Would you buy a flat kit Gla? I doubt it will ever be done as a 1-piece. David Thompson ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> 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/
