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 Posted - April 20 2014 : 9:32:02 PM
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Poll Question:
The poll is: who, on this forum, builds the craftstman rolling stock wood/metal kits. For example kits from Ulrich, Ye old huff n puff, Ambroid, Furnarlengo, Suydam, and many others. This poll does not include Blue Box Athearn kits or the "some assembly required" off the shelf models. I know a lot of folks here like to kitbash but, how many have recently, last 3 years, or are now building such kits. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you can just check the "No" box.
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Posted - April 20 2014 : 10:09:33 PM
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| I would love too but I haven't had the money. They always seem to be a tad expensive. Would a plastic kit from Tichy Train count? It's nothing like a Athearn Blue Box, even though it is plastic.
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Posted - April 20 2014 : 10:38:36 PM
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Yes, I think Tichy Train qualifies.
Sometimes these kits can be bought at train shows fairly cheap. The reason I posted this poll is because of a train show purchase. I was looking at a vendor's boxes of stuff. He had a Ye Olde Huff n Puff kit for $8.oo. I glanced at the label and before I could say anything, the somewhat old dude handed me the box and said, "Nobody builds these kits anymore, I'll take $5.00 for it". How could I refuse? 
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Edited by - NC shortlines on April 20 2014 10:42:35 PM
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Posted - April 20 2014 : 10:59:12 PM
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| I have built Tichy Train kits; but I voted that I didn't build "craftsmen" kits.
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Posted - April 21 2014 : 12:07:41 AM
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| I must get out more often. I love building kits and would love to get my hands on some.
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Posted - April 21 2014 : 08:17:58 AM
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quote:I would love too but I haven't had the money. They always seem to be a tad expensive.
Originally posted by LGLrr845Â -Â April 20 2014Â :Â 10:09:33 PM
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Which has kept me from craftsman kits too. I wouldn't mind giving them a go if I could find some in a decent price.
I think I would enjoy a craftsman building kit - as opposed to their rolling stock counterparts. Highly detailed beyond my wildest dreams but dangerous to pick up for fear of breaking something. A building, on the other hand, would (should) lead a safer life
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Posted - April 21 2014 : 7:11:17 PM
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Me! Me! I still build them! Well, a couple... I've almost finished an original Silver Streak Mopac caboose kit, I have FIVE of those damn S.S. cars now. There's this big stack of old Laconia, Red Ball, Silver Streak, Binkley, etc. etc. etc. cars accumulating in the corner, and I'm slowly building my collection of Ulrich cars - I had to build the elusive war-emergency gondola out of a pair of cast sides and a wooden plank for a floor that I found rubber-banded together, does that count as a kit?
--CRC
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Posted - April 21 2014 : 7:33:25 PM
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quote:I had to build the elusive war-emergency gondola out of a pair of cast sides and a wooden plank for a floor that I found rubber-banded together, does that count as a kit?
Originally posted by PRR 4800Â -Â April 21 2014Â :Â 7:11:17 PM
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if there are parts and you put them together into something that resembles what you thought you were building, then yes it counts as a kit
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Posted - April 22 2014 : 10:21:14 AM
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I have built a Campbell building Kit and a couple of Walther's old time passenger cars. The Passenger cars were cast metal with a wood fabricated frame and a few cast parts. I remember I painted the truck side frames and put them in the oven to dry. They melted at 150 degrees. I Used Express reefer trucks for replacements. My friend called the craftsman kits a box of sticks.
The passenger car experience killed my appetite for craftsman kits. I prefer kit-bashing, just seems more creative.
Regards, John *****
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. <> John F. Kennedy
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Posted - April 22 2014 : 4:39:24 PM
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quote: quote:I had to build the elusive war-emergency gondola out of a pair of cast sides and a wooden plank for a floor that I found rubber-banded together, does that count as a kit?
Originally posted by PRR 4800Â -Â April 21 2014Â :Â 7:11:17 PM
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if there are parts and you put them together into something that resembles what you thought you were building, then yes it counts as a kit
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â April 21 2014Â :Â 7:33:25 PM
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There was like half the parts, I fudged the entire rest of the car with scrap-drawer finds.
Also, I store all my unfinished projects in old freight car boxes on shelves in my closet. Each one is labeled so I can find whichever ones I feel like finishing. One special box contains the remains of an Ambroid PRR Stock car that I discovered as a roof, floor, frame and heap of crumbled sticks mangled up at the bottom of a crate of Lionel track. I swept up all the pieces I could find and as it turns out, the entire kit was there, minus one single wood slat. It's about 3/4 reassembled now, along with two scratchbuilt 36' flatcars I found entombed alongside it.
It is simply labeled, "Box of Sticks".
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Posted - April 30 2014 : 08:02:12 AM
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I try to pick up a few old craftsman freight car kits each fall for winter projects when its to cold and nasty to go out. Most structure kits are to expensive, although I have built a couple of the Suydam kits for my layout. I want to build a couple of the metal Suydam kits but want to find a source of solder paste first. Trying to solder the more convential way takes to long, I want to (paint) the surfaces with the paste then quickly solder the connection with my mini butane torch. Mike
Still NT's, I have Aspergers.
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