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Re: Custom Model Railroad's Judy's Jams & Jellies...
« Reply #15 on: October 01, 2011, 04:33:19 PM »
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Re: Custom Model Railroad's Judy's Jams & Jellies...
« Reply #16 on: October 01, 2011, 08:50:45 PM »
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"If the pictures on the web site are correct, the HO model has the same window issue."

The images appear to be the same for both scale models.  The cloud placement makes this pretty clear.

Some of the structures would be of interest to me but finances don't necessarily make it possible for me to pursue them. 

That said I do hope that they consider doing the power plant and turbine building in N-scale... there are a lot of modelers who could really appreciate the amount of detail found in these models... and a number of them who would do their best to work them into their layouts.
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Re: Custom Model Railroad's Judy's Jams & Jellies...
« Reply #17 on: October 03, 2011, 10:44:46 AM »
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Piling on here. The factory windows lamented could have been done better. They look like something from an early Bachman structure. The row homes are boxy. Square, not rectangular. Can you say Ramsay Journal or RR Hotel?

Name for the factory is lame as well. Better off providing an alpha set so buyers could create their own industry name.
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Re: Custom Model Railroad's Judy's Jams & Jellies...
« Reply #18 on: October 03, 2011, 01:10:37 PM »
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CMR does not wholesale but rather only gives a retail discount to retailers so retailers cannot afford to discount these products as you normally would. Therefore you almost (if not always) have to pay retail for these structures. The Power Plant will NOT be done in N as there are too many castings that would require new tooling and is cost prohibitive.
We are considering the products even at that.
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Re: Custom Model Railroad's Judy's Jams & Jellies...
« Reply #19 on: October 04, 2011, 05:43:57 AM »
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Quote from: fifer on October 03, 2011, 01:10:37 PM
...The Power Plant will NOT be done in N as there are too many castings that would require new tooling and is cost prohibitive...

I can not agree with this. The power plant kit only contains I believe 4 cast parts. The small and large smokestacks and the small and large angled/curved manifolds. Everything else is laser cut acrylic or styrene shape.  They could easily master and cast those parts like they did for the HO one and and it would be relatively inexpensive.

The stacks could also be done easily in tube styrene and the manifolds in layered acrylic. Regardless I have seen over the years what they can do, so I bet in time we may see the power plant. The Jam&  Jelly factory was a building at one time (Springfield 2010 show) they said wouldn't be out in N.
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