With the end of the year near, what was the best product you bought for large scale? I bought alot this year and can’t come up with a decisive winner.
Marc and All,
I’ve got to say, the best thing I spent money on this year was the gasolene money to still enjoy Large Scale events around the Country. With price of fuel climbing travel could have been curtailed, but we bit the bullet and paid higher prices to get to York, Pa., Ottawa, Canada, and Nebraska City, Ne. Not a single item that I would have bought for the railroad would have made a bigger impact on our personal enjoyment of our hobby than the time we got to spend with all of our friends. Lord willing and the creek don’t rise (to high), we’ve got another great year scheduled for 2007. Hope to see a lot of you.
I’d have to say my magnifier visor.
Ric, I didn’t think of that. I used to live 30 mins from York, now 4 1/2 hours. Its not so much the money but the time I got to spend on the hobby
Tom,
What kind of visor did you get? I looked at those at the train show last weekend and didn’t know if they were as good as they seemed.
I’m not Tom, but I use an Optivisor. When you are old and half blind they really make a difference when you are detailing a model. I’d be out of business without mine.
Oh, I have to agree with Ric on the time spent with others in this hobby. I bit the bullet and spent the money to visit Marty’s this year and it was well worth every penny. And like Ric I just hope the creek don’t rise too high as I want to go back next year. The trip pumped new life into me and my modeling. I made a fair amount of purchases this year but nothing overly spectacular.
Warren
I’ll play:
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Ordered, but not received: Carter Brothers coach and combine kits from the MLS Masterclass project. These were designed by David Fletcher (with help from others) and laser cut from styrene by Rick Raiveley. My combine kit should be at the P.O. here in town this morning! (Edit: Picked the combine up at P.O. this noon. The kit is spectacular! The floor is 24" long, a full 40 feet in 1:20.3.)
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To be ordered: A pair of the 20+ ton boxcab kits being designed and produce by Thomas Yorke. They’ll be my Christmas present!
Happy RRing,
Jerry Bowers
Ric Golding said:
Marc and All,I’ve got to say, the best thing I spent money on this year was the gasolene money to still enjoy Large Scale events around the Country. With price of fuel climbing travel could have been curtailed, but we bit the bullet and paid higher prices to get to York, Pa., Ottawa, Canada, and Nebraska City, Ne. Not a single item that I would have bought for the railroad would have made a bigger impact on our personal enjoyment of our hobby than the time we got to spend with all of our friends. Lord willing and the creek don’t rise (to high), we’ve got another great year scheduled for 2007. Hope to see a lot of you.
Ric, I’ll have to echo those sentiments exactly. No product comes even close to the enjoyment of meeting fellow train fans accross the country. Although I didn’t get to Nebraska yet, visiting Port Orford, OR. was a thrill!
Don’t know what the name is off hand. It’s a little heavy and has enough lenses to give me EXTREME myopia:o
Well, I’d like to say the new Bachmann 1:20.3 hoppers, but I don’t have one yet, so I don’t know if it qualifies for “best” yet. (It will hopefully be “this year.”) The kit that Jerry mentioned is a close second, though ask me that again when I’m not totally p****d off at the roof. I may have to do a bit of reengineering on mine. Once the plastic’s warped, you’re hosed. Truthfully, I think the best money I spent for the railroad was for my new camera (Canon digital Rebel XT). Finally I have the creative freedom to capture scenes on my railroad as I’d like to capture them, and not have to work within the limits of a point-and-shoot camera that thinks it knows what I want.
Later, K
Kevin:
What kind of problem are you having? I’d like to know before I have the same problem.
I’ve corresponded with a couple of folks working on the Carter kits that had problems with the roof strips. The solution appears to e just getting a sheet of material off the Plastruct or Evergreen rack at the LHS and starting over, cutting your own strips. One that I know thinks he used too much heat on the first try.
Since I just got the combine kit today, I’ve got quite a way to go before I get to that point.
Happy RRing,
Jerry