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Re: Pre-orders, pro or con.

Tony, you're a well travelled fellow. To quote Stephen Stills, when you're out of town, just "Love the one you're with"! Once a year, Des Plaines Hobbies is my LHS, for example. This year I'm going to

By Tim O'Connor · #107870 ·

Re: State of the RPM hobby

I'm very surprised to see the percentage that high. Pierre Oliver

By Pierre <pierre.oliver@...> · #107869 ·

Re: Sunshine kit 72.4 BREX plug door reefer kit question

Greg I use Modelflex reefer yellow, sometimes with a little BC red mixed in. For the ends I mix MF oxide red and their freight car brown about 50/50. For the fans I would use the photo of FHIX 40152

By Bill Welch · #107868 ·

Re: Pre-orders, pro or con.

Paul Koehler wrote: This is certainly true of the "OWS" (I wish it WAS my LHS), but then it's one of the country's best hobby shops. An awful lot of modelers are nowhere close to even a mediocre

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #107867 ·

Re: State of the RPM hobby (was Pre-orders, pro or con)

I think it was the December MR where the editorial referred to a survey conducted by MR which revealed that 6% of modelers were strict prototype modelers. Indeed a small segment of small

By SUVCWORR@... · #107866 ·

Re: State of the RPM hobby (was Pre-orders, pro or con)

For a year, I operated a partnership with two friends called Keyser Car Shops to produce custom lettered B&O freight equipment.... While we tire-kickers are fed up with sold-out preordered releases,

By Tim O'Connor · #107865 ·

Re: Pre-orders, pro or con.

Tim: Hit the nail exactly on the head. My LHS "The Original Whistle Stop" has everything and you can look before buying, but they are full retail. Go to the discounters and you get what you pay

By Paul Koehler <buygone@...> · #107864 ·

Link to latest CNWHS E-zine

http://www.cnwhs.org/cnwhs_modeler/Modeler_5-1.pdf Clark Propst Mason City Iowa

By Clark Propst · #107863 ·

Re: Pre-orders, pro or con.

Exactly, Richard. After being burned a couple of times, I stuck with dealers (including brass dealers) who knew I would pay for items that I ordered (it's MY responsibility to know what I'm buying)

By Tim O'Connor · #107862 ·

Re: Pre-orders, pro or con.

There are still some dealers who "stock up"... A month ago I visited New Jersey and made an afternoon visit to my favorite hobby shop, Sattler's in Westmont NJ. I was pleasantly surprised to see how

By Tim O'Connor · #107861 ·

Re: Pre-orders, pro or con.

I think that Kadee is a shining example of how to run a model rail business selling RTR product. Consider--even though their primary product is now copied by others, they still sell a lot of

By Steve Lucas <stevelucas3@...> · #107860 ·

Re: Pre-orders, pro or con.

I think the thrust of this thread is the viability of model railroad freight car manufacturing business models based on using, or not using, pre-orders. I doubt Kadee will chime in with their

By devansprr · #107859 ·

Sunshine kit 72.4 BREX plug door reefer kit question

Good afternoon, I've recently received this kit, and opened it with the intent of building it (unlike its cousins in my closet, i suppose), and quickly noticed that I don't even know where to start.

By greg snook · #107858 ·

TANKS a lot! HO & O tank cars FS

I have the following tank cars being offered for sale. All are new, and I have separated Kits from the RTRs in the listing. RTR HO Intermountain RRCo. 46205 Frontenac 10K 3 numbers blt

By Andy Carlson · #108191 ·

Re: Pre-orders, pro or con.

Dave Evans wrote: As anyone at Kadee will tell you, they are a coupler company. That is the core of their business and dominates all other topics. Trucks are considered secondary, freight cars

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #107857 ·

Re: Pre-orders, pro or con.

Frank's HS kids probably drive Porsches and the folks at Kadee don't own one between them. Jerry Glow

By jerryglow2 · #107856 ·

Re: Pre-orders, pro or con.

While this is a SWAG would it maybe have something to do with mold makers being part of or owning the company? That way you don't have to pay for the molds! Jon Miller For me time stopped in

By Jon Miller <atsf@...> · #107855 ·

Pere Marquette decal

At the request of a customer, I've done a set for a Pere Marquette SS car to replace those in the Sunshine kit which do not fit. See: http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/samples/PM.jpg As usual,

By jerryglow2 · #107854 ·

Re: Pre-orders, pro or con.

Being very mind-full of the moderators recent reminder, I think if one compared the number of new HO car tooling sets produced by Kadee and Intermountain in the last 12-13 years, Intermountain has

By devansprr · #107853 ·

Re: Pre-orders, pro or con.

Hasn't Kadee produced some nice logging cars and caboose for close to forty years?Time flies when you're having fun.Armand Premo

By Armand Premo · #107852 ·

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