A pic from the King

I have a feeling Dave Frary doesen’t like the King moniker he’s been saddled with but it’s undeniable that he’s one of the most recognized and respected modelers on the planet and a real nice guy to boot. He was keeping a low profile until recently, (he’s a master competitive BBQ cook) deciding to be more visible in the railroad hobby again. He’s been posting pics of his past builds on facebook and heres one from a Nantucket museum On30 layout that features a couple of our smaller kits and materials.

When we first started out with cardstock modeling Dave was very supportive and got the paper models thing right away. He’s a pro and knows a good thing when he sees it.

He commented that our kits fit right in with all the scratchbuilds and no one even notices that they’r paper.

A discussion about distruction

A customer who enjoys modifying our kits sent me some ideas about making a damaged structure. He wanted my input. I don’t think he knows the can of worms he’s opening. Here’s a model I did as a prototype for a toy company almost 10 years ago. Its 1/20th scale.

Ok, OK

I’ve been bad, I haven’t updated in a while, but that doesen’t mean we’re standing still. We have a super kit almost ready. It’s specifically for the people who are modeling contemporary industry. Yes you’ve seen our modern era kits and you like them. We released two of them at Trainfest but there was a third kit, “Spillen Chemical”, which didn’t get released. That third kit is much more then a kit. Ostensibly a multy building plant site, It in conjunction with the other modern kits is a complete system for the modular creation of any size contemporary industry. Kind of like how we did the brick and morter collection. You’ll be seeing it very soon. It will be priced a little higher (still cheep though) because on the extras and the variations.

If you model contemporary railroads it’s the one kit you will have to have.

So what about all the other kits you have been anticipating. The fire House, the Mill, etc? yes they are taking time but they are nearing release. Both of those kits have undergone substantial modifications brought on by the test build phase and both kits will be much better for it. We don’t want to rush kits out and then have to republish a page because of a missing part or discovering a better way to do something. That’s happenned in the past and I don’t want it to continue in future. All of the kits slated for release are big. they need careful preperation and they are getting it. All so you will have a better build.

Aristoteles Held finished train shed

As promissed a couple of pix of the finished train shed. very nice build and lighting.

We are so fortunate to have such talented builders working with our kits.