Some of the Scenery Unlimited kits had resin roof and underframe with a fishbelly center sill. On mine the floor was sanded too thin by the manufacturer, so the casting warps.
The express reefer kits are certainly worth while - especially as there is no other alternative for this prototype! Some of the milk versions should be 40' instead of 50' cars, in most cases they can be cut down because the lettering was kept the original size, not stretched to fit the longer car. The materials and instructions in the Kinsman kits are superior to many of their competitors at the time. If you plan to build a kit like the ex-Mainline (now Huff-n-Puff) express reefer, get a copy of the Kinsman instructions for the same type of car! Also pick through the wood parts and replace any that warped or too fuzzy or coarse grained Pieter E. Roos --- On Tue, 10/4/11, Rusty <[email protected]> wrote: > The only kinsman Kits that came pre > painted and lettered were some of the reefers and express > reefers. Not all of the kits contained a pair of the > Northeastern trucks and then those that did came with the > old NMRA wheel standards and were either a form of Andrews > or Bettendorf style. The metal detail parts are also still > available from Ye Ole Huff an Puff. > The only pre-pained and lettered freight reefer > sides I have ever seen that was useful is the Swift reefer. > It is possible to cut off 3/16 of the height and still use > those sides. The biggest flaw in the pre painted Kinsman > freight reefers is the incorrect height. > > I doubt any of these kits have that much > value as a completed model. I don't buy completed kits but > Ed Loizeaux does. To each his own. I get no enjoyment from > just owing any of this stuff. For me it is all about > building the models and not buying the models. > > I asked about the Scenery Unlimited kits on > this list and had more than enough responses. The Scenery > Unlimited reefer kits were pretty much a Kinsman kit in a > different box and the later run of Scenery Unlimited kits > had the much nicer Grandt details. Portlines Hobbies has > about 13 of them in stock for $20 a kit. Somebody should buy > all of them and hoard them. Then one day 10 years from now > they can sell them for $25! > > > I was also just informed that only the > late production Kinsman Passenger car kits came with a > hollow clerestory roof. All of the earlier run of kits came > with a solid roof stock. Maybe I have that backwards > though? > > J Rustermier ------------------------------------ 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/
