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Guys, I understand what handling damage is. I'm not holding that against them (handrails popped out, bent, etc...). When I talked about the handrails, I'm talking about the little "burrs" on the handrails. I think those are flash or gates or something, but they were present on other IM hood units, so I don't expect that to change. I'm not bashing them here, and I'm not saying "they'll be crap because IMRC is crap", what I'm saying is, based on the things I see in the photos, there are some things that indicate that it's not going to be the most amazing model. It won't be crap, but there will be things I wish were improved.
I think there is too much negativity on TRW. Maybe we should actually wait until the final model is in our hands before making all these types of comments on a pre-production example? This is starting to remind me of another recent thread where we (I) were/was encouraged to stay positive. Funny how this works...
They look like they sit too high up on the trucks. The previous units did too, think it has to do with the trucks they are using.
About the only thing that annoyed me with the Canadian SD40-2 was that the end handrails had a little flash under the paint. Something I have also observed in Atlas engines though not to that extent. And this flaw seems to have been eliminated in these samples.
Unlike the Kato's, they don't have the frame rails so they look taller than they actually are.
Don't get me wrong. I don't think they look horrible. And, in fact, I'll probably end up with a fleet of them, but I wouldn't call them GOOOD.