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Walther's position on Kit vs Ready To Run freight & passenger cars.
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by orsonroy</i> <br /><br />I thought that most of the injection molding done for Walthers was done in Denmark? At least, that's where all their structures are made (Heljan). <br /> <br />RTR isn't a fad; it's been with us since the beginning of the hobby (ever heard of a Lionel boxcar kit?). One trend I see that's aiding the new success of RTR is the high quality of the models. Having a RTR Athearn car is no big deal. I personally compare those cars to that of Bachmann or the Life Like toy train stuff. But lots of modelers like the new generation of accurate models, but have neither the time, skill or motor control to build lots of them. So they buy RTR. <br /> <br />I buy RTR freight cars and engines. I like having proto specific equipment, but don't have the time to build hundreds of mostly accurate cars to populate my layout. So I buy mostly correct RTR cars when they come out (about half the releases qualify here. The others are still mostly wrong), weather them, and say "good enough". This leaves me lots more time to build other kits (resin and others), superdetail steam, and actually build a layout. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />I'm sorry but I don't want to purchase these RTR "Proto" items with ficticious paint schemes that the manufacturers have pawned off on the average modeler. I was at a hobby shop and saw the Athearn State of Alaska covered hopper, the colors were all wrong and the car was an PS 4740 rather than a Trinity 4750. That is the typical approach of all the manufacturers. Why not do a little research and get it right. That is why I prefer to buy undecorated kits and make them at least a little prototypically correct and paint and decal them properly. That is why I want a PS 4785 Covered Hopper to match the decals I own for a PC X54 Covered Hopper. etc. Some manufacturers (read importers) do try to do a good job on their cars such as Red Caboose on their Coil Cars, who used data supplied by the Historical Societys and Modeling Groups to get the proper prototype cars and paint schemes. <br /> <br />By the way all the Walthers cars, kits included, are made in China, they started the movement to China before all the other importers did. You will notice I call them importers and not manufacturers as they do not make anything. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Rick
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