Some "teaser" photos of the long awaited 53' spine car kit from Alan Curtis are now up at http://www.alancurtismodels.com From what can be seen, they look great! Russ
My pre-order is in, and trailers and containers are being prepared ready. Can't wait, they look excellent, and should help fill a huge hole in my intermodal fleet!
Martyn, yours was the first pre-order, so you will be the first to receive them Putting the finishing touches to the assembly, clean up, paint, decals, etc. Taking photos as I go for the instructions sheet and website. Should be ready by weekend - fingers crossed
Alan, i'm away for a week from Saturday, so no huge hurry on mine as they will just sit in the post office for a few days. BTW - I got the reworked decal sheet the other day from Microscale, noticed they have put ones for the TTRX on the bottom of the sheet in anticipation! Is the sheet for the NTTX that's mentioned on your site released yet? I couldn't find it at the Microscale site?
NICE! I'm about to order so kit from another member of this forum so after that I'l definately be interested in about three of these. Good looking model. verse
Martyn, I have one of the HO NTTX sheets here which was sent to me along with the 53 footer one. Another customer has been trying to get hold of the N scale NTTX minical, so I contacted Microscale and they say it should be available on the site, or to contact Paul Ellis paul@microscale.com it was he who sent me the samples 'hot off the press'. That was a couple of weeks ago so they should have gotten them trimmed and packaged by now I will hold off posting yours until say,7th August? Verse, thanks, I think you will like 'em
Thanks Alan, should be back on the afternoon of the 6th, so that should work. No sense in giving our local post office extra time to try and lose them in. Still can't find the NTTX's on Microscale's site I've browsed under the TTX/Trailer Train heading and tried NTTX in the open search box. I'll maybe have to email them and ask.
You try here? http://www.microscale.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=MD&Category_Code=NEWRLS
Well spotted I have been talking to Rachel at Microscale and she told me they were on the site and available for ordering, but I had not actually looked for them. As they are on the new releases page, I wonder why they have not also been added to the Railroad listings? They will have to put them there at some point, I guess.
Nearly ready! A shot of the five completed spines (on temporary Bettendorf trucks!) Just building the pages for the website, also doing the instruction sheets, then build up stocks of castings ready for launch monday or tuesday. Just need to get them painted and decaled and fitted with roller bearing trucks
Thanks for that! Alan, i'll check with the guys tomorrow, if nobody else from our bunch is doing one i'll order an NTTX as well Might as well make the most of it while i'm in a spine-car building mode
