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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Paul - Gene Fusco is the designer and owner at Railyard Models. They produce kit products that are beyond the cut-off point of discussion for this particular Yahoo Group list. Ron dePierre

Back to my Soo Line car brainstorming session... If you'll recall, my resin kits of the early eighties didn't make use of a lot of add-on surface details. It would have been possible to combine

Will someone please shed a little more light on who Gene Fusco is. Thanks, Paul Lyons

I'm the guy who started this discussion, so let me put this into context: ASSUMPTION: All of the "common" prototypes are already available in plastic. ASSUMPTION: It is un-economical for

Samhongsa is history, he got into injection molding, then discovered that there is a LOT more profit making parts for mass market consumer products. The Athearn USRA Mike and Pacific were the last

On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:57:41 -0000, Pieter_Roos wrote Noooo!!! :-) I did speculate on the possibilities, but it's not something I want to see resources devoted to. Andy