Personally, I'd prefer things like hand grabs or ladders be left off, rather than molded on to the model. Adding parts is one thing, but carving them off is definitely an issue.
If the hand grabs, sill steps and ladders are made of engineering plastic or metal, they would be stronger and probably better looking. Flyer cars were good in their day, and I do still convert some, but I don't want to go back to that level of detail. At an extreme, wood blocks on trucks with painted sides (or even the word "Boxcar", "Reefer", "Gondola" on them) would work fine for operation..... Pieter E. Roos --- On Tue, 8/2/11, up148 <[email protected]> wrote: > Being a rivit counter modeler I'm > very interested in hand rails, grabs and other details that > separate a scale model from a Hi-Rail or 3R toy. I'd be very > disappointed to backslide to the day of cast in > details. > > SHS details aren't fragile. The details on my new SSA tank > cars are not fragile. I'll admit the old PRS plastic > details were fragile but they were owner added and could be > swapped for metal if the modeler wanted. > > Butch Holtgrieve > > > > > > In a message dated 8/2/2011 1:11:34 P.M. Eastern > Daylight Time, > > user141771@... writes: > > > > Also, a lot of modelers, myself included, are > not necessarily that > > thrilled with a lot of expensive, cast-on > fragile superdetailing that really does > > little for operation ------------------------------------ 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/
