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 Posted - January 06 2015 : 7:32:59 PM
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Tycompadres:
While reading a 1938 Model Craftsman, I came across a promo image of the GIlbert 4-6-4 introduced that year. $12.50 in RTR form, it was $10 in kit form, and this is what you got when you ordered a kit:
Pure screwdriver assembly, with pre-assembled mechanism, and paint and decals included! And all this for less than half the price of the next cheapest HO kit ... a small fraction of the price of the very expensive Lionel 00 Hudson. This was a loco that wasn't beyond any modeler's skill to own, and priced low enough that a modeler of ordinary means could conceivably own more than one (eventually).
It was a pretty incredible locomotive...if it wasn't the brink of war, and all the shakeup that entailed, could Flyer have become the biggest name in HO?
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Posted - January 06 2015 : 11:27:06 PM
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If only you could still get a kit like that for $10. I'd buy many...  
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Posted - January 07 2015 : 12:05:43 AM
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That's interesting that it comes with bottles of paint.
According to an online inflation calculator, $10.00 in 1938 is equivalent to $167.00 now.
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Posted - January 07 2015 : 09:42:38 AM
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quote:That's interesting that it comes with bottles of paint.
According to an online inflation calculator, $10.00 in 1938 is equivalent to $167.00 now.
Originally posted by NC shortlines - January 07 2015 : 12:05:43 AM
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Yeah, exactly. That's like the price of a modern H0 scale diesel. Anyway, thanks for sharing that ad, very interesting.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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