----- Original Message -----
From: Garth G. Groff
To: STMFC@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: [STMFC] beautiful old kit


Ed,

I had one of these which I picked up at a used table at some train show.
Yes, it was a nice kit, but very brittle. The zamak in mine must have
had some zinc in it. When I started to assemble the car, the sides broke
into several pieces.

Kind regards,

Garth G. Groff

ed_mines wrote:
> Ulrich made a kit for a die cast WWII emergency gon that built up into
> a beautiful car. It must have been considered fantastic when it first
> came out.
>
> The kit included a lot of little pins to hold it together. I used
> Ambroid cement.
>
> The car had stamped drop ends which you can see from both sides -
> something pretty unusual when the kit was first released.
>
> I stripped of the original paint and lettered the car with decals.
> Finding a small PRR Keystone wasn't easy but Walthers had a lot of
> sets.
>
> I think that model is as nice as any of the resin kits or the Tichy kit
> for those cars.
>
>