Hi Philippe; I wonder if it would be worth someone making an improved etch for the car? Or resin replacement parts for the etch?
I don't have one of the kits, but thought the idea might be worth pursuing for those that are waiting to build them. Pieter E. Roos --- On Wed, 12/14/11, Coquet, Philippe <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> 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/
