So I just recieved my aristo flat car in the mail. Paid $50.00 bucks for it including shipping and the thing is brand new in the box. I didn’t know that I just bought it for bashing. So I am pleased with that deal.
At any rate in looking at it a few things jumped out. One is that the deck is not molded to the frames it is screwed on. So will be able to remove it. Second it has bentendorff (sp) trucks which are correct for the prototype. They are also equalized and not bad looking.
So the question is do I use this car as a basis for molding my own kits or do I just buy these and convert them? Looking at it I think I can bash these pretty easy. But making molds and producing kits would be nice from a numbers stand point. Ideally a nice consist of log flats would be like ten of these, the protype often had 30 or more. If I were to make them I could see having 10 or so. Bashing them five would be a stretch.
And none of this should even be on my radar but alas the squirrel has been loosed