Hi Michael & Ed
Ed is very right. Thoise kits look fantastic but they are really really tough
(and I would dare saying I'm a reasonably experienced modeler, eventhough not a
specialist of hybrid resin-photoetch kits).
I never managed to finalize properly the 1st kit I bought. I hopefully ordered
from Kaslo some extra photo etched parts in order work again on some of the
areas which I did wrong first time, but never found the energy to complete the
job so far. Of particular compexity (at least from my experience) is the
assembly of all photoetched parts (mainly the end sections of the car) which
seem (to me) slightly too thin and thus too difficult to assemble (including
fit with the running board platforms). Resin castings may also require severe
trimming, which is not easy for small parts such as the brake equipment or if
one does not want to remove details such as welding plates on the car sides for
instance.
Finally I experienced huge difficulties and dissapointements in decaling the
car, for the CDS dry transfer I bought (government of canada) did not apply
well at all, runing the whole paint job. I then repainted the whole car, and
even tried to create decals out of the dry transfers (scanning the original
transfer, editing it in photoshop and printing it on my ink jet printer) but
result came out not good enough to my standards.
This being said, warm Kudos to John Withmore of Kaslo Shop Distributing for
delivering S scale modern freight equipement like this one to our S scale
community. I'm sure that the experience I learnt from 1st kit would make the
second unit a success and I would love (as many of us) more of these. I
actually bought some months ago a second unit which is sitting on my shelves
for now, waiting for more modeling time to become available.
Philippe Coquet
France
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