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Hi rda1964, That's one of the reasons I started this post to have the members that have scratch built share with others what can be done. And to show that, Hey so what, we have other options available to us. Some of which can be plumb downright enjoyable to do. I don't know how many have built wood rolling stock from kits. but the results can be mighty impressive. And then you can buy railroad model wood stock to build frieght and passenger cars. Let's see there would be the cost of paint, decals (anyone try decals on a computer yet?), trucks, and couplers. Alot of the hardware can be scratch built as in grab irons, ladders etc fairly easily. I would guess that a person could build quite a few frieght cars in a relatively short amount of time once the materials and tools were in place and templates made. And guess what they would be one of a kind as I have said before. [:)] Just thought of something, our computers could very well be a big help in modeling. How many of you use real time to transfer plans or photos while your talking to someone. And this is off topic a bit, but I can let you into my computer to browse my railroad photos if I set it up. A temporary server in other words. Also, you can tutor and/or troubleshoot computers this way. That's why I wondered about making decals from scratch on the computer. Should be able to. Will have to check this out further. And don't forget back issues of MR (and others) for plans to use in scratch building. A question here. How many evenings would it take to scratch build a simple freight box car if a person really got after it?
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