Has anyone done business with them? They have some interesting kits but I know nothing about the company.
https://ralphratcliffemodels.com/index.php?route=common/home
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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
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Good to know, thanks. With those cabs and Shapeways bodies it opens the possibilities for many types of fire apparatus with having to scratchbuild.
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.
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.
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chutton01Nice 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.
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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.
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