I think American Models makes great stuff. SHS made the Cadilac level of S products, but I think American Models has great stuff too. We owe a lot to Ron Bashista and American Models for what it has offered us. There have been a lot of emails bashing American Models during the last year. A lot of those criticisms seem pretty puny to me. But I know we are a group of individualists who have all kinds of expectations of detail in our models. I have a small business website and get extremely frustrated at the webmaster. I do not have the flexibility to show or tell everything I would like to, on the website. Overall, I think the American Models website is pretty good. Yes, there are a lot of stale pages. But there is a lot of product shown with good pics. Not bad for a relatively small company. My only serious complaint with American Models is one that Alan alluded too earlier. It is the difficulty of putting Kadee style couplers on some of their locomotives. My experience is limited to RS3s, FP7s, E8s, and FA/FB diesels, plus the Pacific steamer. I cannot remember how the couplers fit on all of those. I have more FP7s and E8s than anything else. The coupler mountings vary on these. I know that American Models offers (if you ask) some metal hardware that you can somehow glue or otherwise attach to the mountings to allow placement of Kadee style couplers, though its not all that obvious from instructions how to do it. Fortunately I have purchased a couple of locomotives on eBay that already had the Kadee style couplers mounted so I have been able to learn from seeing those. BUT IT SURE COULD BE A LOT EASIER. And it would help if the coupler mountings did not vary from different production runs. - Earl Henry, Nashville In a message dated 1/9/2013 6:08:01 A.M. Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
This would be my one serious criticism about AM. They come out with a new roadname and don't put it up on the website. It was almost a year before the Texas Special, MP and SP E8's and passeneger cars were listed online. Rich G(ajnak)
