Guys, I just received a email solicitation from Model Tech Industries.
They have created a run-down rotting building in s scale. Looks really
neat. Assuming the building is a laser kit, one would wonder how to
create a building out of plumb like that and still have all the parts
match up. Over the years I've had a or two building take on a
"different" shape than intended, but this sort of defies what we
normally try to achieve. I also remember Gerry Evans having an issue
with a grist mill that he entered in the contest at some past
??convention due to some moisture.
When I was probably still in grade school. I purchased a stock yard kit
from a company called Americana in Wood. They advertised in a few early
issues of the Herald. I think the kit was a $1.50 or at that time 3
weeks allowance! Obviously I built it the best I could; but it had
terrible instructions, a few crude drawings and my abilities were near
zero. The kit was mostly very fine strips of Philippine mahogany and I
did get it together. When I put the layout up when girls, cars,
college, moving to Calif, Minnesota and then Texas everything had been
put in storage for years. That kit had taken a shape resembling a
really bad "trip". However much of that kit has re-set itself to some
degree and was just recently replaced on my layout. While thumbing
through a mess of old plans, I came across a couple of those plans for
the kit--yes it's probably the worst instructions I've ever dealt
with--remember old time "ditto' copies!
I have purchased a couple of Model Tech items but they have progressed
to many other items designed to thin the wallet. I also noticed an HO
scale fire escape kit that looks pretty good. The one sold with one of
the Pine Canyon (made by Tichey I think) isn't as common as this one.
This one has an angled stairway type ladder, while the Tichey version's
ladders are straight vertically positioned.
Another thing, which is not S scale related except for the talk of new
modern diesels, is a GE ad for their diesel engines that ran on TV on
Sunday AM. It's a wonderful ad showing BNSF diesels running in what
appears to be along the northern coast. This is a wonderful
collaboration between the BNSF and GE's ad agency. I wonder if GE sent
them a free diesel for the deal! My main instructor in photo school,
had worked out of Richmond Virginia where one of his clients was the
Northfork Western (60's era). When he was given an assignment he had
little control over anything. He just had to wait for everything to be
right!
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
------------------------------------
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/
