Pat Moore commented: > Yep. Kinda pricey. But, as always, your mileage may vary. > > It gets back to what you want to get out of the hobby. > Fortunately, it is broad enough in HO that you can choose to > be perfectly happy with the new-old Athearn model of the > PS4740 at $15 retail, or have fun hunting for the old Bev-Bel > EL-decorated model on eBay. (Anyone want mine?) Of course, > you have to live with the limited amount of detail, which > might be perfectly fine for you. No criticism from me! > > If you want more detail, then you can get the Athearn model > and add the etched metal roofwalk, re-do all the grab irons, > add the brake system detail, the correct trucks, then repaint > and decal. All that stuff starts to add up in both money and time. > > Or, you can go "high end" and shell out the $45 for the > Tangent model. All the work is done for you, other than > weathering. Like Schuyler said, it is as if you pointed your > shrink ray at the real thing. Now, go spend your limited > time on something else (like inventing a shrink ray). Exactly right. Sure, the cars aren't cheap, but as they say, "You get what you pay for." If you want a cheaper alternative, Athearn painteed their PS4740 model in EL several years ago - if memory serves me, the kit retailed for $9. It can't even approach the Tangent model in detail accuracy. But it's certainly a plausible car. > And, to some extent it has always been this way in the hobby. > Back in the day, you could shell out several hundred bucks > for a finely detailed brass model, or you could spend less > money but lots of time kitbashing a model of the same thing. A good point here - the better-than-brass-quality Tangent car is still a fraction of a comparable brass car. - Paul The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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