Did I hear Coby right? does that cardboard barn really cost $41.99. It doesn’t have any window detail & it looks as if the roof has no texture. IHMO it’s a little steep…no it’s really steep. Check out the video, “Coby’s Office”. What do you think? Jerry
You heard right.
I am not familiar with this brand, but if it is cardboard then it certainly seems priced on the high side. I agree that while watching the video the item did not seem to have any texture as you pointed out.
If that is the MSRP the street price may be considerably less.
Maybe it’s made by the same company that prints the Lionel boxes??[:-^]
At $41 I was not impressed, it does not even look very realistic. Noch is German and so presumably Walthers is importing these. I can’t imagine that they will sell very well? There are far better photorealistic paper and cardboard models from companys like Clever Designs. http://clevermodels.com/models_ho.htm far better detail and a lot less expensive. I have to say that paper and card structures are not really to my taste anyway.
I thought he made a “typo” when stating the price. Surely, the kit isn’t worth more than $4.99. The structure shown was so unappealing I didn’t and still don’t want to waste time checking out the price.
Mark
Rotor
Walthers sells a comp. program to print your own buildings and it’s only $40. Who in their right mind would pay $42 for some cardboard? Even $4.99 sounds like too much to me!
Coby? Who’s that? Did you mean Cody?[:-^]
Well I went and watched the video - no way is that worth $41.99.
A quick search on Noch’s website finds it RRP is €19 ($30) which is still hefty.
And it doesn’t even come in a box but a plastic bag!
For that price they could make out of polystyrene or even wood.
Irv
Yeah, but think of what that bag will be worth in 40-50 years!
There was another thread recently about “How to save money in tough times.” Well, I see a way to save $41.99 right here.
Well apparently there are a lot of people out there who are lemmings. They just assume price = quality or rarity. Somebody is buying Marklin GG1’s that are more than $400.00 each when you can’t tell the difference between it and and a Mehano or Rivarossi. Probably the same people who plunk down their money as soon as something is announced.
LOL You’d save even more if you didn’t buy two. [;)]
Oh dear…you’ve all missed the point,it said ‘Laser cut’-surely worth 42 bucks[:-^]
Steve
I thought lasers burned paper???
I recently payed $34 for a German paper model kit:
Of course its 1/32 scale, detailed out the gazoo and is almost three feet long when complete, so its just a tad more substantial than this 1/87 kit [;)]
Blame the in-the-toilet Dollar, which is rapidly closing in on the Peso in value, its only 19 Euros overseas, not that terrible when you consider that the Euro use to almost equal the Dollar for years till recently, of course import that over here and once you add that hefty distributor profit margin you end up at $42. Says alot about how in the crppr our economy actually is…
I suspect this “cardboard” is more like a thin masonite hence the laser, like cutting balsa wood kits.
BTW no lasers on my kit, got to do it the old fashion way - xacto [swg]
the product review videos are free for everyone this weekend so i went and had a look .
1st Cody reviews an illuminated tweezer set for $19.99 that , although it might not be a required tool for everyone’s toobox , is certainly a useful addition since it contains 3 types of tweezers (all metal) and an LED light
then he reviews the $41 cardboard barn
and then he reviews an N scale hopper car , a very nicely detailed plastic model complete with trucks and couplers and a steel underframe (i presume to bring it to recommended weight) . price of the hopper car ? $15.99
which one doesn’t belong here ?
the barn is a rippoff . you could buy a sheet of textured paper to make the walls , and another for the roof from several manufacturers . i think they cost about $7 or $8 per sheet and would probably make at least 4 of these barns . yeah you’d have to cut it yourself and even fold the corners , but it is only paper , you don’t need a laser . you could even add plastic windows and doors and still be way under the price of this kit and have a much better model
it’s good to see things like this , but these are new product descriptions , they aren’t reviews . and i think they should be a bit more discriminating about what they include . they only have time/space for a few reviews , they really should be showing us the best stuff available that really gets their recommendation as a product
ernie
Usually a laser cut kit is made of model aircraft type plywood and when assembled they look very nice. But cardboard, is prone to warping because of moisture. I sure wouldn’t pay $41.99 for the same material that its box is made from! And the barn Cody showed didn’t look very prototype anyway.
Maybe it’s the lost Cody’s April Fool’s video?
the manufacturere is Noch , it might be a german prototype
ernie