On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:33:06 -0700 (PDT), Ray Breyer wrote The 64K$ question here is, do people who don't care about accuracy care enough to buy a resin car with cast on details when they can buy a

Clark, good hypothesis. Now needs to be tested. Oops. Looks like Kadee, Tangent, and now Intermountain (introducing $70 freight cars) and Athearn (now introducing $500 diesels with RTR sound + DCC)

This is an interesting discussion as most of the low-hanging fruit for mass-produced models has been picked over and manufacturers do face looking at some marginal, albeit significant, highly

Ray, Your idea is interesting, but something like this was tried by Ertl in plastic about ten years ago, and it flopped miserably (at least until the cars were dumped through discounters). Ertl

While I'll agree that turning a Westerfield or Sunshine-quality resin kit into a mass-produced RTR car isn't much of a realistic option, I wonder if anyone's given any thought to a one-piece resin car

Clark, As has been discussed here a number of times, there are very few correct paint schemes for this post WWII welded type 103W car. The most common would have been the US Army Transportation

Well said Clark! Maybe this will get us off the wheel and onto a topic we can do something about. Bill Welch

To throw my 2 cents in this RTR resin debate. Why? If I use this guy as an example, he has lots of quality plastic kits built on his layout. He will not pay the price of an RTR model. Like me, he sees

A friend picked up a Red Caboose tank car kit in a shop that still has a few kits, Westerfield kits still on the shelf! The body is silver with data only. He'd like to know what reporting marks would

Pieter I'm not a casting expert, but I think vacuum molds can produce parts consistent enough -- Tom Madden or Gene Fusco probably could explain it, but perhaps it is a trade secret! I think if I knew

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The difference is that one resin type is injection molded in molds made of metal or epoxy are dimensional consistent, while the other type is generally hand-molded in relatively flexible rubber molds

Apples and oranges Ben,Al's parts while useful, were limited to a narrow number of options.Jim Singer and Stan Rydarowicz have done some nice work with many more possibilities.Armand Premo

Tim O'Connor wrote: Tim, you're right that "resin" is not a unique term and that raw plastic materials of many kinds are called "resins." But styrene is a thermoplastic--you can take previously

Jeff Aley states Definitely not true. Not entirely true. Production quantities on many plastic cars are quite low but still profitable. The question is, how much sunk investment cost do you have

All of this banter about RTR resin kits fails to address the primary reason, IMO, as to why this has never come to fruition: processing time. These posts seem to focus on flat castings which are not

Ok.   I look at it this way, someone still has to build it.  China??  Let's get them done ASAP. To me, they would just want to get them out. Too much time. I would worry about the quality. Tight

Sure hope that Pierre is right. I've just finished opening my last (ever) shipment from Westerfield. Now to make sure that they don't end up on the shelf for too long and to hope that someone will

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