N&W caboose project Spring Mills Depot status

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I agree with Roger, what SMD is doing is unbelievable. I found a Overland a
year ago and went with that for N&W.

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 12:27 PM NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <
nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

> Mike,
>
> I agree 100% about the disrespect nature of their dealings with customers
> who only want to support their projects. Yes, it's just 2 guys and they
> have jobs and families and all that but, seriously, just how long does it
> take to send one email to a group or two advising of the issues they have
> run in to? I really can't buy that excuse. People are normally patient but
> there is a limit to patience.
>
> It has been since 2013 (I believe) that they claimed to start on the I-1
> B&O caboose. I understand all the stuff about the Chinamen being on
> vacation, strike, days off, closing factories, and blame it on covid like
> everything else, etc but there have been tons of HO and other products
> produced since then by many small and large manufacturers. Look at Rapido!
> they announce something and it's not long before modelers have it in their
> hands to nitpick. Same with all but SMD.
>
> I agree SMD has produced the finest models I have ever seen in any scale
> since 1956 when I started out with getting in to all this. I'm a serious
> modeler and truly appreciate fidelity to detail and gorgeous paint but I
> don't "do" contest models and I'm close to 72 and don't know if I can
> outlast SMD's lousy delivery schedule. I'm not knocking folks that want
> prototypical details and thicknesses of walls, wires and stuff but I'd
> personally settle for a Balboa or Westside CF cabin car behind my M-2s and
> enjoy my trains than maybe wait another 3-8 years for them to get off the
> pot and deliver what they have long promised.
>
> If you are aware you can't meet the production of an announced product in
> a reasonable time WHY announce other projects you can't put out to loyal
> customers?
>
> I'm like so many B&O and N&W modelers hoping for beautifully detailed,
> quality cars and left with nothing but cancelled checks and silence.
>
> Just my 2¢.
>
> Roger Huber
> Deer Creek Locomotive Works
>
>
> On Thursday, April 14, 2022, 10:00:25 AM CDT, NW Modeling List <
> nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>
>
> Roger, this is really my only concern with them. It's disrespectful of the
> loyal customer base to not provide any updates to the website, pretty much
> at all over the past four-five years.
>
> If they would only update the website every 6 months or so, I don't think
> anybody would be complaining. (Well, someone will always complain! But you
> get the point)
>
> No one can argue that they have made phenomenal models so far. If the N&W
> cabins look anywhere near as good as their previous caboose run, I think we
> will be very fortunate.
>
> Regarding brass options as someone else mentioned, I'm not giving up on
> those either!  I have five or six stripped Westside Models brass cabins on
> my workbench that I walk past every couple days. I just need to get the nut
> bolt washer castings drilled and installed under the cupola sides on the
> CF's, and I will be ready to paint them.  I'm debating doing an interior,
> now that I can easily 3D model and print it.
>
> Mike Rector
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 8:20 AM NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <
> nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>
> Amen! I think I'll take my chances on the brass market NOW rather than
> lots of hopes and promises at an undetermined time. Yes, they do good work
> but they have pretty bad business practices when they make promises of
> products many, many years into the future and haven't the decency to report
> any status to folks who have trusted them with their hard earned money to
> come through. I'll put my faith in a given...Balboa and Westside.
>
> Roger Huber
> Deer Creek Locomotive Works
>
>
> On Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 09:17:13 PM CDT, NW Modeling List <
> nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 4/13/2022 9:51 AM, NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List wrote:
>
> > Many of those models will be around a long time after we are gone.
>
> Then again, many of us might be gone before the cab ever comes around! ;)
>
> Jimmy Lisle
>
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