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<P mce_keep="true">My friend Lisa got me an N scale box car and "Cricket's Saloon" by DPM (kit #511) for Christmas (and I love her for it). I wouldn't have expected her to know the better quality kits from the lesser quality ones, and once again DPM has proven to be one of the worst (at least in N scale anyhow) that I usually avoid.</P> <P mce_keep="true">The plastic is <U>extremely</U> brittle and difficult to work, the castings are sloppy with excessive flash and, for whatever reason, DPM always seems to have trouble producing chimneys or cornice halves that match-up decently (3 out of the 4 chimney halves were badly shaped and didn't meet-up at the edges, and if you file or sand them you lose brick texturing). They provide you with slanted edges with the excuse that "draft angles" are a necessary part of the molding process, yet there are plenty of better quality kits that certainly don't.</P> <P mce_keep="true">What really killed me was this quote from the instruction sheet (I had to read it twice to ensure they really said this):</P> <P mce_keep="true"><EM><STRONG>"If you want to make the building exactly square, sand both edges of the rear wall to remove about .02 inches in width. In the real world, few buildings are exactly square - you might decide to skip this step."</STRONG></EM></P> <P mce_keep="true">Uhhh, if the builder who built my house in Minnesota told me, "<EM>few buildings are exactly square</EM>", he wouldn't be my builder! What an assanine statement! I spent about 30 min. sanding-down the rear wall's edges to get the structure perfectly square, because without that effort, "Cricket's Saloon" would've looked off-kilter from across the room let alone up close. Plus, who the heck can measure .02 inches on an N scale structure??</P> <P mce_keep="true">I got past all this and the kit is looking acceptible now (to be renamed "Lisa's Lounge"), but DPM is a pretty sad excuse for Made In USA quality.</P>
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