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American Plastics - Terrain for Trains product questions

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American Plastics - Terrain for Trains product questions
Posted by jnichols on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 8:41 PM

I'm co-owner of a hobby shop in SLC, Utah, and I've been looking into several of the ready made and kit based model railroad layout options and I have some questions about one in particular. I've seen the ads and visited the website for the American Plastics Terrain for Trains products in an attempt to get a better understanding of the product. I have many customers in both N and HO scale looking for quick and easy layout solutions that can be built upon or used stand alone and the Terrain for Trains "layouts" seem to fit the bill. So here are my questions.

Has anyone purchased or seen one of these in person (especially the HO scale layouts)? If so, how do they look? I'm probably most interested in the painted versions as I think they would offer the best starting point for someone who just wanted to add some ground cover and trees. Does the painted version look good? Also, they are showing some pretty specific track requirements on the website, has anyone adapted different track to one of these layouts with any success?

Thanks in advance!

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 8:45 PM

Jeff mate you might be on the wrong forum. This is mainly G scale and inthe garden type stuff.

In any case i bet someone has an opinion for you.

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Posted by pimanjc on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 8:47 PM

Would this be suitable for ON30 layouts?

JimC.

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Posted by jnichols on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 8:49 PM
Whoops! I did post it on the wrong forum. I'll repost it over on the Model Railroader forum. I'll leave it here however in case any large scale guys have seen this product. Thanks for letting me know!
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Posted by jnichols on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 8:52 PM
 pimanjc wrote:

Would this be suitable for ON30 layouts?

JimC.

Jim,

They do talk about adapting the HO scale layouts to On30 on their site so my guess is yes, but not having seen on in person I wouldn't know for sure.

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Posted by kimbrit on Wednesday, December 6, 2006 2:06 AM
If they did one for G it would save having to do all that gardening etc etc. I want one, 60' by 25' will do nicely with 3000 pretend trees already fitted!!

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