 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
| HomeDiscussion Groups General ModelsRailroadsRocketsRadio Controlled Air ModelsHelicoptersLand ModelsWater ModelsModelGeeks.com Contact UsLink To UsSearch & Site Map |
Model Forum / General / Railroads / February 2007Buying brass for the first time - would like some advice
Hi, I'm considering buying a brass N scale UP caboose, but the pictures on caboosehobbies.com show unpainted models, and I was wondering if the models themselves come painted or unpainted? If I'm paying >$US90 for a model, I want to make sure it's painted. The photos on the Overland Models site show painted models, although the retailer's don't, and I just want to get some advice on this. Thanks, Danny B > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Danny B If it doesn't say "factory painted" or "custom painted", it comes in brass. Not unpainted, actually the models are painted with a gold lacquer to hide the solder and discolorations from the heat, but that counts as unpainted. A lot of collectors want their models unpainted, oddly enough. AFAIK, Overland models all come factory painted and lettered. HTH Best advise is DON'T BUY IT!!!!!!!! Brass is WAY overpriced. Plastic is just as good. The brass market is dying. That model is NOT painted so plan on another $100 for paint at least. > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Danny B > Best advise is DON'T BUY IT!!!!!!!! > > Brass is WAY overpriced. Plastic is just as good. The brass market > is dying. > That model is NOT painted so plan on another $100 for paint at least. Plastic models require a very substantial amount of tooling for the casting process. Therefore, to get models of certain special interest cars and locomotives, there has to be short production runs in something that doesn't require casting. I myself only own one brass locomotive - something that wasn't and still isn't available commercially. Everything else is plastic. However, I would disagree that plastic is just as good. With metal parts, it is possible to make much smaller, fine detail such as grab irons, various pipe details, etc. The walls of cars can be thinner, and have a more realistic look to them. However, just because it is possibe, doesn't mean that it is always done. There are brass models out there that aren't so very wonderful. Riding qualities and (for locomotives) running qualities can sometimes be poorer than one would expect at the price - because they expect the model to be in a display case or some such rather than actually used. An awful lot of that fine detail only shows up if you are looking at the thing in a full page photo in model railroader magazine or something like that. Most modelers don't look at their stuff under 5x maginfication like that. For most practical purposes, plastic appears just as good, particularly now that laser machining is far more common than it once was.  Signature-Glennl The despammed service works OK, but unfortunately now the spammers grab addresses for use as "from" address too! e-mail hint: add 1 to quantity after gl to get 4317. gl4316@yahoo.com spake thus: >>Best advise is DON'T BUY IT!!!!!!!! >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > cars and locomotives, there has to be short production runs in something > that doesn't require casting. Just curious, Glenn: why are you replying to a well-known troll/sockpuppetmaster? SignatureDon't talk to me, those of you who must need to be slammed in the forehead with a maul before you'll GET IT that Wikipedia is a time-wasting, totality of CRAP...don't talk to me, don't keep bleating like naifs, that we should somehow waste MORE of our lives writing a variorum text that would be put up on that site. It is a WASTE OF TIME. - Harlan Ellison, writing on the "talk page" of his Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Harlan_Ellison) > gl4316@yahoo.com spake thus: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Just curious, Glenn: why are you replying to a well-known > troll/sockpuppetmaster? This thread and post actually has something to do with model railroading. The original poster who asked the question needs to hear a variety of opinions. Signature-Glennl The despammed service works OK, but unfortunately now the spammers grab addresses for use as "from" address too! e-mail hint: add 1 to quantity after gl to get 4317. Steve Caple we ask that of you each day why are you a sockpuppet? Please find god and stop lying to the train board. STEVE CAPLE WE KNOW THIS IS YOU please stop and stop sinning. On Feb 25, 12:43�am, STEVE CAPLE wrote: > gl4...@yahoo.com spake thus: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > -- >Steve Caple we ask that of you each day why are you a sockpuppet? >Please find god and stop lying to the train board. >STEVE CAPLE WE KNOW THIS IS YOU please stop and stop sinning. CURT MCHERE we are not fooled by your sockpuppets and fakes. We know it is you. Get off of drugs, and off god please. We are praying for you to die painfully. STEVE CAPLE we know this is you as "brad" you are at troll and a fake. Get right with god and repent On Feb 26, 9:46 pm, STEVE CAPLE" wrote: > <curtmch...@aim.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Get off of drugs, and off god please. We are praying for you to die > painfully. > STEVE CAPLE we know this is you as "brad" you are at troll and a > fake. Get right with god and repent CURT MCHERE we are not fooled by your sockpuppets and fakes. We know it is you. Get off of drugs, and off god please. We are praying for you to die painfully. "trainspeeddemon@hotmail.com" (sockpuppettus curtus) spake thus: [nil] X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) SignatureDon't talk to me, those of you who must need to be slammed in the forehead with a maul before you'll GET IT that Wikipedia is a time-wasting, totality of CRAP...don't talk to me, don't keep bleating like naifs, that we should somehow waste MORE of our lives writing a variorum text that would be put up on that site. It is a WASTE OF TIME. - Harlan Ellison, writing on the "talk page" of his Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Harlan_Ellison) |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.