The Herald King Decal line has been purchased (finally) by Midwest Trains in Betterndorf, Iowa. They are going to have a website up soon. This is great news as the line has many decals that are not available anywhere else.
Jim
Jumping and doing handstand for joy.
I will have to send off an order as soon as they are up and running.
James
Hopefully they'll throw a bone to the N scale market. MicroScale has been pretty disappointing of late...
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
wm3798 wrote: Hopefully they'll throw a bone to the N scale market. MicroScale has been pretty disappointing of late...Lee
Not only that, they have kind of been the lone setinal in the decal market as of late. Horde CHAMP decals while you can still can.
So glad and rather pleasantly surprised to read of this, especially since Microscale has reportedly cut back on some of the decal products.
From what I've been told at my LHS, the RTR lines as well as the introduction of limited run models in a much greater variety of road names, numbers, and paint schemes has impacted the model railroad decal market. Hence, my surprise to this news.
Hopefully the quality and accuracy of the new Herald King products will be comparable to Microscale. Microscale basically set the standard that many of us use as the decal benchmark.
"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"
Perhaps the Champ artwork could also be purchased as the well is drying up.
Good news about Herald King. Bad news about Scale Rail Graphics - they are getting out of the decal business as I learned at Trainfest. http://www.scalerailgraphics.com/
Dave Nelson
Soo Line fan wrote: Perhaps the Champ artwork could also be purchased as the well is drying up. Jim
It's been so long that they've been out of the decal business that maybe some people forget they ever were ... but Walthers presumably also has decal art work that is going unused. At one time between Champ and Walthers the decal offerings were huge.
Finally, I can get the decal set for the US DOT E8 and the Consolidated Pappers Gondolas!!
This is probably the best model railroad news I have heard this year!!!!!!
Phil
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GAPPLEG wrote:Don't forget to go to Champ and check out what they still have for sale. They still have a lot of decals.
(Regurgitating this thread) Yep-I just got a set from them last week. My experience with them in the past was that they were one of the most expedious dealers I've encountered, so when I didn't get them in the time frame I was expecting, I was a little worried (mainly because to my knowledge the only decal dealer that supplied the set I needed, & the boxcar they're to go on is halfway painted.) But all was not lost. Turns out they got sent to my old address-forgot to update
Seems some have Champ dead & buried already, & obviously that's not the case. I'm guessing that they're like a business in my area that's been trying to go "out of business" for well over a year, but have so much inventory to get rid of, they're still doing it. Just my
Here is the new catalog, it looks pretty good.
http://www.midwest-trains.com/HeraldKingDecals/index.html
This was almost 10 years ago and I don't see any web site for this company. An internet search goes to some site with Japanese(?) printing. Also, clicking on the link leads to "website cannot be found". Am I missing something here?
Frank
Some threads are best left in the grave yard. However you didn't look hard enough.
http://www.heraldkingdecals.com/index.html
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Maybe I didn't but thank you Big Daddy.
BigDaddy Some threads are best left in the grave yard. However you didn't look hard enough. http://www.heraldkingdecals.com/index.html
I think I'd be sending them an email first to see if anyone is really home. Their out-of-stock decal list is as of 2009, and I see no evidence on the site of a more current date. But if anyone does try to contact them and is successful, I'd sure like too know.
From another Forum in Oct 2015 "I sent an email to them at heraldkingdecals@q.com which is what they list on their website. The email came back as undeliverable"
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.
DSchmitt "I sent an email to them at heraldkingdecals@q.com which is what they list on their website. The email came back as undeliverable"
Well, it is @gmail.com, but maybe whoever was quoted just typed that incorrectly. Anyway, until proven differently I'm afraid that I have to believe that they have gone the way of Champ, Floquil, and probably a few others that we used to rely on.
Not sure if this sheds any light on anything or not, but I just purchased some Heral King decals off of ebay. The seller stated this in his auction, as well as others...
"These Herald King are the best. You won't see these again any time soon. I have the artwork and no plans to reprint. Once gone, they are gone."
The web site has a phone number. Call it.
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Michael Mornard
Bringing the North Woods to South Dakota!