From: Alan Lambert Fort Worth, Texas Bob, Just checked out Model Tech, and they listed it as pre- assembled. Looks good to me. Alan
________________________________ From: Bob Werre <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 2, 2012 1:37 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: {S-Scale List }New Stuff 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
