--- In [email protected], "pickycat95" <pickycat95@...> wrote:
>
> Bill,
> No harder than SHS except I don't believe they had replacement wheel sets in
> the box. They are nice toy train cars with crisp and colorful paint schemes.
> Detailing is heavy and lacks fineness. If you want them to 'look right' in
> a scale layout they will need work to replace the cast-on details. I've sold
> some of mine primarily because they don't fit my era - a little reluctantly
> because I really liked some of the schemes.
> Ben Trousdale
>
> --- In [email protected], "Bill Lane" <bill@> wrote:
> >
> > I never bought any of the Crown Models cars. Are they comparable to SHS? Is
> > changing to scale the same effort as SHS? Is the correct coupler height
> > easily achieved?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank You,
> > Bill Lane
They don't look too bad if you invoke the 10/20 rule(10 feet away at 20 mph.)
Yeah, some of the detail is a little clunky but nothing that shouts out when in
a sea of black, boxcar red and reefer orange. No worse than converted Flyer
cars that haven't been extensivly reworked.
Crown did correct the ladder position on later cars.
As I recall, I put AM wheelsets on mine and Kadee mounting was no major effort.
Rich G(ajnak)
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