Hey: Scratchbuilding is another ball game - up a few quantum steps. I
think the discussion was on making kits! There are quite a few
'unbuilt' kits out there sitting on shelves right now, but they aren't
some of the earlier Kinsman, etc., but PRS plastic type. In any event,
it was fun making some of those earlier wooden kits (until I got to the
Kinsman three in one 'passenger' car kits). Well, those were different
times. I also must admit that the PBL Sn3 plastic kits (tank car, etc.)
are a bit of work to get a nice looking model.
regards all
Rance Velapoldi (Tranby, Norway)
On 10/29/2012 17:36, Ed Kozlowsky wrote:
Roger,
I don't want to keep this alive, but in the 60s you didn't have any
choice but to build kits, unless you were converting Flyer. And then
there was the time there were no scale wheels available. Let's face
it, we're talking about now not 30, 40, or 50 years ago. Very few
model railroaders (percentage wise) build car and locomotive kits
today in any scale. Those few that do care very much about quality,
and yes, that generally means fidelity to scale including wheels.
Even if you Hi-Rail guys rework a SMMW kit to meet your needs, it's a
heck of a lot easier than scratch-builing.
*Ed Kozlowsky*
*Sanford, Maine*
*sscale.org*
