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It seems the best detailed and most diverse responses are rapidly available. The three shelves devoted to trains at Hobbytown have looked the same for the couple months that i've been paying attention. Time is paramount. It's hot outside! So with that great build up, (ah! nothing like loaded compliments), a little story ending with a question. In the last few days I built the first two models I ever built. I outfitted my excursion with every tool listed and pictured in the plastic kit basics chapter of the getting started book and the ABC's of adhesive articles on this site plus as an afterthought, which necessity dictated, a magnified task light. My two victiims, a Branchline AAR 40 footer and an Accurail wooden 40 footer. I began with the Branchline spending 2/3's of the day meticulously gluing tiny grab irons and under carriage lines, posted a plea for help here when i couldn't find the weights that were in an obvious place in the parts box, and ultimately finished the next morning. The model, to my surprise doesn't look too bad; especially in low light at a distance. Some, most, or all of the ladders, stirrups, and grabs are bent, which could be to my advantage as they look a lot like the protype photos in my guide to freight book. The second model's role in my attempts was more a patient than a victim. The Accurail's way fewer parts meant way fewer things for me to screw up. And I certainly improved in both strategy and steadiness after a days worth of intent focus on the Branchline model. Anyway, ( talk about long winded) before I spend a hundred dollars in Accurail freight are there other kits that are mostly molded detail with a few additions that I could check into. Hobbytown has little to see, or say unless it applies to things that can be driven on their dirt track behind the store for what must certainly be a marginal fee. I guess I don't like that place very much. Thanks, all JnM
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