Now that Athearn is out of the kit business, who still makes
[relatively] easy-to-assemble plastic HO scale caboose models?
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12 years ago
[HO] Plastic caboose models
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12 years ago
Dunno.
But you can still find plenty of unbuilt blue-box Athearn kits on Ebay, and they're still mostly going cheap.
~Pete
But you can still find plenty of unbuilt blue-box Athearn kits on Ebay, and they're still mostly going cheap.
~Pete
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12 years ago
Why do you want kits when you can get fully-assembled items for the same
price?
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12 years ago
Speaking for myself:
1.) It's fun to build kits.
2.) It's a *lot* easier to kitbash when you're working from parts rather than having to deconstruct an already completed model.
3.) The same is true when painting/decalling rolling stock for a private (or unusual) road.
4.) When looking at something you built, you can tell yourself "I *made* that" rather than saying "I *bought* that"; which does not deliver the same sort of satisfaction.
I *do* draw the line at drop-forging my own wrenches, though.
1.) It's fun to build kits.
2.) It's a *lot* easier to kitbash when you're working from parts rather than having to deconstruct an already completed model.
3.) The same is true when painting/decalling rolling stock for a private (or unusual) road.
4.) When looking at something you built, you can tell yourself "I *made* that" rather than saying "I *bought* that"; which does not deliver the same sort of satisfaction.
I *do* draw the line at drop-forging my own wrenches, though.
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12 years ago
For my nephew, who is just getting into model building in the hobby.
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12 years ago
Sounds like it is time for him to start building more complex kits. The B&M
caboose of A,mbroid (if it is still around) is a good kit for more
sophiscated building as those kits do go together well if you take your
time.
Also a trip to the Walther's website will show what is around for kits.
Then again, I'd not worry too much about whether a model is a kit or RTR as
I usually tore them apart and repainted them to my road and put good trucks
and couplers on them to match the rest of my rolling stock. This usually
included adding rear lighting to the cars with a switch underneath on the
battery so that the caboose will have good steady lighting.
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12 years ago
Huh -- why would you say that? "more sophisticated building"?
He's just getting into model building and this would be his first car kit.
He's just getting into model building and this would be his first car kit.
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12 years ago
An assumption was made that he was already building stuff so the
continuation of that is to get into more complex and sophicsated stuff.
I'll note that there are a lot of car kits still being made that are not
that difficult to assemble and it may be better that he tries them rather
than building a specific car type. A trip to a good hobby shop will show a
bunch of different cars that can be build and there is probaly going to be
some of the old blue box Athearn cars still there.
Besides, don't limit the kid, he may be capable of a lot more than you
think;!
-- Bob May
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12 years ago
Accurail and Branchline continue to supply decent, low cost kits as
an alternative to discontinued models from other sources.
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12 years ago
But no cabooses.
wolf k.
wolf k.
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12 years ago
Bowser still has caboose kits available, though sadly they are
limited to northeastern railroad prototypes.
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12 years ago
Do they have caboose models? I didn't see any on their web sites.
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12 years ago
Yeah, Bowser seems to be the only manufacturer I've found.
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Mark Mathu
Whitefish Bay, Wis.
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12 years ago
I guess not.
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12 years ago
Go to google. Type in 'ho caboose kit'. Here's just one example:
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Clearly not a shake the box kit, but something that could be assembled with
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12 years ago
Athearn?
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12 years ago
True, there are the AMB Laserkits, but the OP was looking for
plastic kits as the thread is named.
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12 years ago
And it's pretty well established there are None - with the exception of
Bowser NE roads.
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12 years ago
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12 years ago
If you look under Athearn caboose on ebay you will usually find some Blue
Box kits listed.
J. Bright
J. Bright