Athearn Chessie System Cabooses knocked it out of the park. thank you Athearn.
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- Athearn just released a new long awaited run of Chessie System and B&O cabooses along with CSX variations. Athearn did C26, C26a, C27 and C27a cabooses filling important gaps for Chessie modellers such as myself. you'll need several as chessie had a nice variety of cabooses in their fleet and these were important members. I especially like that they filled another gap in my safety caboose collection. I'd like to eventually have all of the safety cabooses to match all the ones chessie painted. These cabooses are expertly detailed and lighted, although they don't have FRA marker lights, hopefully they will offer it separately for later years service. I would like to do lighted markers for the mid 80's I model. if you like this video feel free to subscribe and like it. thank you.
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Awesome caboose. Cool video and channel just subscribed
Awesome thank you!
Man they look good. How did you get yours, I preordered mine through trainworld and they’re still showing they’re under preorder? Thanks for sharing!
I ordered on ebay and figured they'd be in next month, I heard they were being delivered soon.
@@jimthomefan50025 awesome thanks man, appreciate the heads up and showing us!
@@kylestevens6925 glad you enjoyed it. I think they will find their way onto many layouts.
There are a lot of People bashing this run on FB saying there are many flaws in the artwork! Sad thing is Athearn knew about the flaws and didn’t correct them
Did any of the ones complaining about the artwork actually contribute to the development. I can't see athearn having people give them guidance and then ignore it. Companies do make mistakes, and if that's the case, there are companies that make decals you can correct discrepancies with. I thought the number on the bay was a little undersized but I plan on changing to a 90 series number so it wouldn't bother me. Microscale has caboose sets as well. Overall it's a welcome addition.
@@jimthomefan50025 To answer your question yes the one complaining did in fact provide input, did provide correct engineering diagrams of all fonts, did supply correct paint colors, did provide free of charge art work. and nothing was fixed... nothing! The issues can not be fixed with decals because the decals that are correct are gone or incorrect from microscale. Now the model it self is not the gripe, it's the poor art work, initial research, and disregard for correction of issues. These are not cheap cars and there for should not have some cheap half hearted paint and art work.
@Jason Quinn I noticed the black underframe soon as I took it out of the box, but wasn't overly concerned as it will be weathered. For those that aren't weathering it, a coat of blue paint with an airbrush, or having someone do it if they can't would take care of that issue. I do agree, to spend what you're spending and have to resolve issues shouldn't happen. Especially, if there was guidance preproduction to ensure accuracy, and it didn't come through in the production of the model, that's disappointing. I believe it's time for athearn to bring production back stateside, where they can monitor production closet. I wasn't impressed with the thickness of the paint on the last run of GP40-2 units. It's as if 1 coat was good, so let's try 3-4 coats to make it better. It obscured most of the detail. Of course, other companies aren't without their failures, but yes, if they got all the input they needed, this shouldn't be an issue this late in the game.
@@jimthomefan50025 Athearn has ignored info from historical societies before
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So what is wrong exactly with this Safety Caboose, Only thing I can see from looking at Prototype pictures is that the Safety Slogan letters look a little thinner than they should be?
What's the other side look like?
@Matt Fisher I'd have to send you pics. I think the number is kinda thin but overall it looks good
Purchased a Tangent Chessie caboose and was very disappointed with the interior lighting ... can only see it's on in a pitch dark room. How's the lighting on the Athearn?
athearn isnt much better. you can see it, but it seems to flicker more
Terrible
Wrong color on under frame is first easy thing to spot
Yes I spotted it right out of the box but I plan to weather mine so it won't be noticeable anyway. Do you plan to not buy them because of something that can be corrected? I'd get out the airbrush and make the underframe color a memory.
Under frame should be blue. Not black. Fail!
My suggestion is to do what I planned to do, paint it or weather it. Overall it's a good model and I'm sure you aren't going to pass on buying it over something easily corrected
@@jimthomefan50025 At the price of it, and being a long time modeler, I will pass. Not spending money on fail, and it could of easily been correct in the first place.
@@louistoman6322 your loss, I'd just paint it. It will be one less prototypical caboose you'd have.