Ralph Ratcliffe Models

[charlieB]

Great products

[SeeYou190]

ericsp

They have some interesting kits but I know nothing about the company.

Thanks for the link. They have some items that look like I could make good use of them.

-Kevin

[HO-Velo]

chutton01

Nice cab kit (hollow-very important

I agree, the MR600 looks good and I too prefer a hollow cab with preformed glazing, nice for adding a driver.  I recall a San Francisco based steel tube and pipe supplier running an MB600 semi tractor with a short flat bed trailer for deliveries in the early 70s, bet the tight turning radius helped the driver get in and out of some tight spots.

Regards, Peter

[HO-Velo]

Informative post, glad to learn of Ralph Ratcliffe models, some remind me of Sheepscot models.  Lots of nice parts too, the deluge gun would be at home around a tank farm, oil refinery or chemical plant.  

Thanks & regards

[chutton01]

I have one of his kits (ladder truck body) which I had purchased at the Amherst Model Raildoad show several years back (pre-covid). Ended up not using it as planned, but the pieces were very good quality IMO.  Random aside, but I wanted to buy a Mack MR-600 cab which by my preferred time period (c. 2019) seemed to be mostly found in municipal waste service*  Nice cab kit (hollow-very important as I could never get the solid cast ones to look good) but there weren't left for sale at Amherst...so I kind of forgot about it - oh well, maybe next Amherst, I'm in no hurry for it.

*As witnessed by the MR-cabbed packer trucks in the old SimCity games, SC3000 (IIRC), before that series ran off the rails (heh) and eventually got clobbered by City Skylines. 

 

[ericsp]

Good to know, thanks. With those cabs and Shapeways bodies it opens the possibilities for many types of fire apparatus with having to scratchbuild.

[PennCentral99]

I just made a purchase from him. Prior to the purchse, I emailed him asking if certain parts were still available for the kitbash project I'm thinking about attempting. Not only did he reply in a timely manner that the parts were still available, he put the parts in my account shopping cart, all I had to do was complete the transaction. They arrived in a couple days. I would definitely give him a

[ericsp]

Has anyone done business with them? They have some interesting kits but I know nothing about the company.

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