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New products for December 6, 2012
Great! A cheaper static grass application system is just what we could use. Let’s hear it for market competition.
I’ll be using those magnify tweezers for more than MR purposes such as checking for deer ticks that might cause lime disease,
I would like to see Model Railroader Magazine to include more on Z scale once in awhile. For your information Z scale is all grown up.
I’m glad about the new run of Broadway Limited Imports’ HO models of the distinctive steel 40’ boxcars built for the New York Central and some of its subsidiaries in the 1920’s. But both the BLI and the Walthers websites show the same car numbers as in the first run. A phone call to BLI didn’t yield info as to whether the forthcoming cars will have new numbers.
Even if they don’t, I’m hoping to get one car in each of the two paint schemes I didn’t get last time.
The models are beautifully detailed. I have just two quibbles about the two I have. First, removing the blackening from the treads of their wheels resulted in exposing a brassy or coppery color beneath a very thin plating that’s supposed to replicate the shiny steel treads of real freight cars (in many cases, the only part of them that IS shiny). I’ve had similar problems with wheels on some Red Caboose cars, but not with Atlas or Kadee wheels. Second, I wish the color of the cars was a bit less brown and more red.