And Tom , I couldn't agree more with you. Except that in my approaching golden years, I have neither the patience nor the eyesight to do much "real" modeling. I have nothing but admiration for those who continue on in the great tradition. Knock yourselves out guys. But I am now almost strictly a plug-and-play man, when it comes to engines and rolling stock. I do still put together and weather the occasional structure. However, when you start to talk about getting passenger sides here, roofs there, etc., etc., my eyes glaze over, and just a decade or so ago, I would have been on the same page. I also gave up building model airplanes from scratch and plans, and even from kits. (Have a bunch of electric stuff for sale, if anyone is interested.) My distinct hunch is that the number of genuine model builders in the traditional sense has declined and continues to do so. Witness the popularity of RTR everything. And people are apparently willing to pay the price for it. I wanna' just open the box and put 'em on the track. Roy Inman
> From: Thomas Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:24:03 -0500 > To: [email protected] > Subject: S-Scale Modeling Passenger cars > > Recently, a number of people have expressed interest in streamlined, > smooth-sided passenger cars. The comment came up that it is hard to get cars > that fit a particular road because most cars were custom built to plans > created by the railroads. Do we still have the man, Sautters was the name I > think, in Ohio who will laser cut any given window pattern if we furnish the > scale drawings? He apparently even has a repertoire of plans that he could > laser cut right now if one were to notify him. > > It appears that any mention of wood is a cardinal sin in the modeling world > these days. At the risk of being kicked out of "church," I suggest that the > streamlined wood roofs are available from various--probably obscure--sources. > One might inquire among the readers of this list, for example. Certainly > creating an prototypical end in the form of a styrene overlay is not beyond > the skills of modelers on this list. If Mr. Sautters could laser cut the > correct window pattern, if one could get the wood roof based on the old > Northeastern pattern, one could certainly cut support blocks and a floor. > > Of course, if one wants the Twentieth-Century Limited, one might have to wait > some time and lay out a heavy chunk of change. It could be done. For many of > us the long, sleek limiteds of the Forties and Fifties are too much for the > space we have. The secondary trains and locals fit much better into most > spaces. To wit, the Great Northern "Red River" is a better choice than the > "Empire Builder," and the Soo Line--well--that outfit had three and four-car > trains all over the map in the Upper Midwest. Certainly, roads in other > regions of the country had shorter trains as well. > > For shorter trains, the wood, laser-cut sides should work. > > Tom > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
