Hi Michael; A bit unfair for several reasons.
This thread has already indicated that there is existing stock at several dealers. The person asking for these now knows where he can find them. I'm not sure that Iron Rail was overwhelmed with demand for the Ace hopper conversion. It's pretty unfair to push for the production of a product when you might even buy - two - if someone invests in making it. These were convenience products. If you had a fleet of AF cars to convert to scale, they were a big help. Are there a lot of people looking to convert whole fleets of AF cars today? If you just tap the parts, screw them on and add trucks and couplers you STILL have a toy car riding on scale trucks. Replace all the molded on detail, build a new under frame, repaint and letter - now if might be a passable scale model. If you are capable of doing that, you don't need the Ace parts to save you 10 minutes of building up the bolster - especially if the resulting car will sit a foot too high (which the gondola and Flat car conversions do). While precisely made, the Ace bolsters are not terribly prototypical in appearance. no rivet detail, too wide, etc. A set of nicely made, prototypical, scale underframe parts would be great in S. I've used a lot of these parts. I doubt I would do so again in most cases. Pieter E. Roos --- On Fri, 8/31/12, Michael Ostertag <[email protected]> wrote: John, Sounds like the same old response to someone trying to better the scale. Why bother! Nobody wants it! There's no converting being done! Obviously there must be some need, otherwise he wouldn't have asked about it. I'm with John (again) on this one. Its time for the old (way of thinking) to get out of the scale and time for the new (better and more progressive way of thinking). Michael Ostertag -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
