From: Alan Lambert Fort Worth, Texas John, Just joking with you. I don't know perfection either. I guess that is why all of my hopper cars are SHS. I do have an insider for American Models though. I have the MKT Pacific and all of the heavyweight passenger cars. Now for my freight cars I may have one or two 52 foot gondola's to go with them. Don't look on the website, you will not find them. I know they are too long for the steam era,but They have MKT on the side for one of my roads I model. I also have Santa-Fe Pacific and box cars for a freight train. Nothing I see is perfect, I dont count rivits either. If it is for my 2 road names I will get it. Maybe you need to send American Models some extra money so he can change the tooling on the hopper. Now back to my trains. Got to get them ready for our open house. Alan Lambert
________________________________ From: John Degnan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 6:19 PM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Ace stuff Alan, yet again you don't seem to 'get me'. I have said a number of times that I DO count rivets, but I usually do so WITHOUT intention of correcting them if they are off by a mere few. The fine, minute and hard to see things don't really bother me that much... but the large, obvious things DO bother me. Take the end bracing on the AM 3-bay hopper... VERY obvious... so much so that it was the very FIRST thing I noticed about the model. Yet someone commented that only I would notice such a thing. If that is true, that something so blatantly obvious would be overlooked by everyone else... then shame on the rest of you for being so A.D.D. LOL!!! Just kidding... no, really! But seriously... as I have also said so many times in the past - I do NOT seek perfection... just to be as accurate as I can be without an extreme amount of effort and expense. John Degnan [email protected] [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- >From: Alan Lambert >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 02:05 PM >Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Ace stuff > > > >John wants it to be picture perfect with every detail. >Alan Lambert
