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<p>[quote user="BMMECNYC"]</p> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">ROBERT PETRICK</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">ACY</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p>Robert, I don't model your era so I don't have any need for these. But I'm sure there are lots of others who would find these very attractive, and I suspect there would be a market. The idea isn't new. Several years ago, Westerfield produced the PRR G22 gondola with cement containers. He provided individual containers, but he also provided an optional complete load that represented many containers, joined into one solid block. It sounds like a variation of the same idea. </p> <p>Tom</p> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>Hey Tom-</p> <p>Yes, I'm sure I'm not the first person to run into this problem. I checked out the Westerfied website and that is kinda what I'm looking for. Thanks for the info.</p> <p>I'm also aware that there is a kit-bashing solution. For example . . . start with four ordinary off-the-shelf ready-to-roll (so to speak) containers. Carefully cut them apart. You have four right sides, four left sides, four roofs, four front ends, four rear ends, and four bottoms. These parts can be re-assembled into a block of eight containers in a 2 by 2 by 2 arrangement. Twice the number for the same price. I'm sure other, larger mathematical solutions are possible.</p> <p>I'm all in favor of kit-bashing, and I'm not afraid of the work involved, but I need hundreds of these fiddly bits. What I'm looking for is some manufacturer who produces pre-arranged matrices that can be easily and economically assembled by the casual modeller. In kit form or as finished ready-to-stack assemblages.</p> <p>Robert</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>You are not the first person to run into this problem.  Lance Mindheim did this by building a styrene (or something) core and attaching a photograph of the containers to the core.  It falls under the "looks good enough" to the casual observer, but the illusion would break down under very close inspection.</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>If that isnt good enough, build a styrene core and stack containers around the outside of it?  You need only model the visible sides...</p>
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