Blair Line Kits

Fergmiester

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Blair Line Kits

Posted by Fergmiester on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 6:28 AM

I was in the LHS yesterday and there was a Blair Line kit of a General Store for $38 Cdn. Can anyone tell me as to the quality and difficulty of these kits?

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=5959

If one could roll back the hands of time... They would be waiting for the next train into the future. A. H. Francey 1921-2007

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Fergmiester

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Posted by Fergmiester on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:51 PM

Is Blair line this obscure? The photo on the box looks really good and I would really like some feedback

Sorry to be a pain

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=5959

If one could roll back the hands of time... They would be waiting for the next train into the future. A. H. Francey 1921-2007

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fiatfan

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Posted by fiatfan on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:55 PM

My memory is old and failing me rapidly but if I recall, Blair is an old and reputable line and should be a good kit. I don't have any personal experience but from reading 40 years worth of MR, I seem to recall they have had a good reputation.

Tom

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Fergmiester

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Posted by Fergmiester on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:32 PM

Tanks Fiatfan

It's a wood kit and looks like it will take some time. I've built several wooden boats in my day and I found scratch easier then kit, especially Billings. as none of the peices matched up and the instructions were wrong. Therefore my feelings towards wood kits in general became jaundiced

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=5959

If one could roll back the hands of time... They would be waiting for the next train into the future. A. H. Francey 1921-2007

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 5:43 PM

I haven't built one of their buildings yet, but I have modified one of their trestle kits, and built one of their truck dumps, both in N-scale. Both kits had excellent quality. While construction was pretty involved due to all of the pieces, it wasn't difficult to put together a nice model. I wish I had some places for some Blair Line structures on my layout now.

---jps

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 7:09 PM

Fergie, Sheesh, what a pain! Try it you'll like it. These good kits, and fun to build!

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DSchmitt

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From: California - moved to North Carolina 2018
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Posted by DSchmitt on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 8:46 PM

I've built their N scale church. A good quality well designed kit.

I tried to sell my two cents worth, but no one would give me a plug nickel for it.

I don't have a leg to stand on.

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Anonymous

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April 2003
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, June 24, 2004 4:04 AM

If you like to scratchbuild, do that. Its twice the fun to design and build what will be an absolutely unique structure. And to do it for 1/3 the cost of a kit.

Randy