Earl, to me it was bothersome enough that a good friend and I worked on
a good way of making up a new floor with many improvements. So I built
a half dozen of the first kits I had purchased. I then sold off several
of those early cars when AM made improvements in the paint schemes. I
also purchased a few more of them and started to build them. I estimate
it took 3-4 hours each (back then I worked faster!). Add in a few
dollars for new Grandt AB brake system, some Evergreen plastic and some
mis. stuff; now you would be proud of your car, especially after the
underbody is exposed during those pesky derailments! The problem is
that Pacific Rail starting making better stuff and I put the half baked
AM cars aside. I now have only about three AM boxcars (+4-5 to build),
while I have maybe 40-50 PRS cars and another 20-30 SHS boxcars. So my
money and time went with the better products. So in the end if AM had
improved his product I might have purchased more and I also have to
spend less time making up identical improvements to each.
BTW, The AM gondola's underbody can be helped with a similar approach,
but because of the dropped sidesills the underbody isn't seen that well.
Bob Werre
Phototraxx
On 12/21/12 3:22 PM, shabbona_rr wrote:
That's true of most of us, Earl, but to some people, it's a big deal
boB Nicholson _____________________________________________________
--- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>,
tennsgauge@... wrote:
>
> You may figure out now that I have only been masquerading as one of you
> "scalers". I was not even aware that the American Models house car
underbody
> was backward. Its actually not a big deal to me. Seldom do I study the
> underbodies of the models of the prototypes.
>
> - Earl Henry, Nashville
>
