Rance, Yes, I was thinking of PRS kits also. I know several hirailers who have built them and are running them. I also know a local hirail guy who has built at least 2 of the Smokey Mountain kits and is running them with large flanges and Kadee couplers. He is an excellent modeler and his stuff is nicely detailed and weathered. He has also become adept at installing and programming DCC, BTW.
And I still build kits, but lately it has been more for others. Work on the layout usually trumps sitting at the workbench. Roger Nulton From: Rance Velapoldi Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 10:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Scratch-Buiding vs. SMMW Kits 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
