I haven't bought any of those kits, although I did buy one of their PRR
cabooses (which I shall consult Peter V's website when I finallyget around to
building it) and was impressed with all the nice etched brass parts.Might I
suggest the bending tool MicroMark sells for just this kind of etch? Our
British friends use that construction quite a bit for their kits. Generally
speaking, when etched brass parts are soldered together they gain considerable
strength from the soldering.
As to the CDS lettering, there is a learning curve in learning how to apply
them (ask me how I know), but when one is used to themthey can come out quite
well. Since there has been no new production for a while (and probably the
sets included with the hoppersare even older, bought when the kits were
produced), some other modelers recommend warming the set before applying to
revivethe wax vehicle. And, unlike normal decal lettering, they go on a matte
finish rather than a glossy. And be sure to set them by rubbingover them after
application before overspraying a protective coating.
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> 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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