I purchased my first Sylvan Scale Models resin car kit this past Saturday. As I was washing off the mold release from the parts last night, I either misplaced or couldn’t locate one of the 4 hubs for rubber tire. (I don’t even remember seeing it in the kit.)
I e-mailed Sylvan this morning, told them my problem, and asked them if I could purchase another hub for the kit. I received a reply back from Clare asking me for my snail mail address and informing me that they would be sending me out a part immediately. Wow! That’s service! [:)] [tup]
I’ve been pleased with the quality of the Sylvan kits so far. There is a little flashing clean up but it easily comes off with an X-acto knife. (A lot less flashing than the Jordon’s.)
This is also my first resin kit and the polyurethane resin isn’t as brittle as I was initially expecting. The car actually has some weight to it.
With the scarcity of 1930’s vintage HO cars on the market, you can bet that I’m going to purchase more of these Sylvan kits in the future.
Resin is a lower-cost material to produce models with than styrene is, allowign allowing smaller manufacturers such as Slyvan Sylvan to produce less-popular models that don’t warrant the cost of injection-mold tooling.
Sylvan is best known at home for a line of Canadian-road rolling stock. For instance, Sylvan has done models of both types of modern steel vans (cabooses) built inhouse by CN, and distinctive freight cars such as the NSC tapered-doorpost paper cars from the seventies and CN “slabside” covered hoppers from the fifties.