Monday, April 6, 2009, 10:59 PM
This came my way wile browsing a structure model forum. Its our turbine house re imagined as the Daily Planet. AND it's in N scale. I don't know who built it but if I can find out I'll try to get better pix.
beautiful work.
Thom
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Friday, April 3, 2009, 05:55 PM
This sound crazy but the G&D engine house is almost sold out. We didn't make that many because we really didn't know if they would sell but apparently I was wrong. (personally i think it's the water tower people want) So we have maybe 10 left.
Next up we will be releasing a collection of HO wood frame buildings (as soon as we decide which buildings) Everyone has seen the mercantile and the furniture factory but we also have a new cannery, a section house, A gas station and a false front business called McElder's cycles.
Also we will be releasing either large brick factories which will include the the small forge, turbine house, plant #2 and two brand new kits the Akron mfg (it's big) and the Cream city tool works (also big and very flexible). That's a lot of kit on one disk. Well over $100 bucks separately. we will be selling that collection for $39.95 and we will take advance orders. delivery in about 5 weeks from now.OR all of our steel buildings which will include several never before seen kits.
So that our stimulus package.
Happy modeling
Thom
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 11:03 AM
I wish i could load this in it's full size. this is one of the best buils i have ever seen. Jim Gore, thank you.
Thom
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Monday, March 23, 2009, 02:31 PM
As always, the show is a great place to see old friends and catch up on who's doing what. Once again i had intended on hitting the layout tours but real life got in the way. I did here back that they were very good.
Sunday sadly was very slow with many vendors packing up by noon regardless of the rules that we had to stay open. We always do stay till theres no one left to buy anything. At the end every one is touching base to see what shows are going to next and a hearty see you there. we unfortunately haven't been traveling much. We are making an effort though and will definitely be hitting the road more.
To make a long story short, we had a great show and the disks are a huge hit. My only regret was that I realized I had developed so much for HO scale that I only had a couple of new items in O. I'll have to address that this year.
So many people came by specifically to thank us for our product, saying that we were doing something good for the hobby. that meant a lot to me.
The success of the first two disks means that it's full speed ahead or releasing the others. the next two will be the "Neighborhoods" collection with all of our house variations, all of our garages and several low relief flats plus fences and signage. The second disk will be industrial buildings which will likely be broken up into several disks Brick buildings, steel buildings and frame buildings. We have enough new, never seen kits to do at least three disks.
I just finished the test build of the John Kosma designed "Cream city tool"which is going in a few places on my layout. this design is so flexable with three seperat component buildings that it can fill a small space or really chew up the landscape. we will be packadging this with our brand new "Acron tool" the redesigned small forge plus more low relief and such.
We will be relaunching the web site to focus on the disks. I sincerely hope to have it up in the next two weeks.
Also you have to check out the model railroad forums
www.kitforums.com a great font of knowledge and a great community.
As always let us know what you think.
Thom
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Sunday, March 22, 2009, 10:22 AM
I'd say the disks are a success. The show it's self is very much the same as every year. It's good to see people. we didn't take the layout this year so what we had was two tables with just a few kits built up and textures on display. Of course we had the two first disk offerings.
The texture disk sold like crazy. I think it's a no brainer and i guess people agree cause it was the easiest sell. I think a lot of modelers are going to be real happy with them. The engine house is another matter. With the impressive model on display and kind of the hero of our table, everyone was oooing and awwwing. It's an intimidating model to be sure.
I only had a small number O scale disks made and we sold at least a quarter of them. I realy would not have been too surprised if we hadn't sold any. In short we had the best show we ever had.
Sunday is usually over too soon with too many venders packing tables by 3pm. we always stay till the end. I enjoy going to these events.
I'm sure today won't be as active as yesterday, well, actually I'm not sure. people like these disks.
Every one have a fine day and doo what you love doing.
Thom
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