Nope Gale don't remember those kits but I did at one time use the instructions from a Quality Craft "Canstock Car" to scratchbuild one of those cars. I suspect, except for cutting out the sides and fabricating the ends, I just built a kit! It turned out OK too. The modern, exterior post cars are perhaps alot easier to scratch than the transition era cars. Bruce
--- In [email protected], "Gale Hall" <gale_hall@...> wrote: > > Evening, > > Remember the ole Kinsman 5 for $5 double sheathed boxcar kits all the wood > no plans, and the $1 boxes for the key wood parts for the NP and GN > cabooses??? > > While the Regal kits went on to become Wisconsin Central, I produced them > for a year or so under the WC and the DMK labels. All the interest in the > kits makes me wonder if someone really wants to buy them as Frank Titman has > made the tank car and the 65 ft mill gondola available again, except not at > $7.95 but $39.95. When we did the kits we added new casting to the tank car > kits for the end sills and a $3 cost casting for the dome, which really > effected the price of the double and triple dome kit a great deal more than > the former 35 cents per dome addition.....there was also the Milwaukee Road > composite gondola, a SOO Line stock car, a 50 ft outside braced boxcar and a > PRR > G-22 container gondola. Bob must have made the interurban gondola and flat > car or perhaps Jeff got the key sheets and put the kits together, as about > the only place I ever saw them offered was Hoquat....And DMK made the ACF > centerflow kits in 34'CNW and the 38ft 2970, a 4650 and a four bay pellet > car....we concentrated on the 38 ft car and held the price to 9.95, it > needed to be a 15 dollar car, but S wasn't ready for that price yet, the > larger cars were made on a custom basis. Another problem we had was in > getting the roof walk material, as the folks at Liberty Models were reacting > to the photo etch chemicals and supply was rather random....at a much later > time when the PRS 4650's came out it was a real hoot to do a car in an > evening, plus it was also very pleasing to see how close we were with the > profile using reefer and caboose roof and reefer floor, it just happened to > work out in S. > > Ah Liberty Models, anyone still got the ultimate kit, still in mint > condition? > > The decals in the QC CP rotary gondola, were a problem, as they should have > been printed to go at the same end of the car instead of opposite corners, > hey do two cars and it works out. The CP decals in the Train Stuff car had > nothing to do with the QC decals, they came from Herald King and were > totally different. > > gale hall > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > ------------------------------------ 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/
