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Accurate Injection Molded Rebuilt Boxcars (was Re: [RealSTMFC] Significance of the P&LE / PMcK&Y USRA single sheathed rebuilds?)
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Benjamin Hom
Joe Binish wrote:
"...a modular kit to make the various rebuilds in plastic would be cool. My Sunshine and Boas built kits are among my favorite cars in my fleet. They have the 'look'." Agree completely. Unfortunately, that Atlas abomination (in multiple scales) probably sucked all of the oxygen from the market, though one can hope that one of the manufacturers is listening. There are prototypes being offered today that we undreamed of even five to ten years ago. Ben Hom |
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Joe,
I'd agree with you and Ben with two caveats. The USRA rebuilds were such a "dog's breakfast"
that a modular kit would require options for ends, roofs, sides, and underbodies...so essentially, at least for some cars, a whole new kit. This loses any advantage of modularity. Second, in plastic, kits DO NOT SELL. So financially, this is a complete non-started.
Now, as a manufacturing approach to RTR, with kits on the side (a la Tangent) maybe, it might possibly work.
Regards,
Bruce
Bruce Smith
Cocoa Bech Fl. (temporarily)
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Joe Binish wrote: "...a modular kit to make the various rebuilds in plastic would be cool. My Sunshine and Boas built kits are among my favorite cars in my fleet. They have the 'look'." Agree completely. Unfortunately, that Atlas abomination (in multiple scales) probably sucked all of the oxygen from the market, though one can hope that one of the manufacturers is listening. There are prototypes being offered today that we undreamed of even five to ten years ago. Ben Hom |
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Bruce
You might make a study of Tangent's simultaneous release of 4 physically different Pullman Standard cars (including a rebuild) that had very few owners (when compared to a standard PS-1) that required many doors, sides, more than one roof, more than one end, and so on -- even multiple trucks! :-) And he sells them RTR and as kits. Anyone who wants to model the cars later in life (well past the STMFC) has to buy the kits. And Dave did that on purpose, because it would have required even more molds and there are so many variations. But that works for me and other 1970's modelers. :-) On 1/5/2023 9:30 AM, Bruce Smith wrote:
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Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts |
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