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This is my first attempt at building a Tichy 40’ Pulpwood car kit. Mmmmm – boy, what a challenge. When I bought the kit at a LHS I didn’t realize it was part of an a-ala-carte menu. I had to go on line and order the decals and download the instructions.
The downloaded instructions were shall we say inadequate at best. On top of that they were blurry and the part numbers as shown in the illustrations were next to impossible to read. Thankfully the part sprews were labeled which helped some. Even though blurry the instructions were able to be read. I just wish they made more sense and had diagrams to identify certain part locations.
It is a very detailed kit with unbelievably small parts which when they fly from the tweezers are virtually gone forever. The kit must contain parts for several versions of kits as there were extra parts I was able to fashion parts for ones that went missing.
I found the rungs on the ladders too hard to build the Tichy way and I used 2x3 scale plastic lumber as a replacement. I cut them long, glued them in place and later cut to fit. He kit does come with Tichy’s metal grab irons which are nice.
I found some parts making up the bulkheads not fitting as the pictures and instructions seemed to indicate, namely the angled end bracing. If I were to do another car I would make modifications to the braces. Sadly that day will probably never come as I don’t think I’ll buy another.
The downloaded instructions were shall we say inadequate at best. On top of that they were blurry and the part numbers as shown in the illustrations were next to impossible to read. Thankfully the part sprews were labeled which helped some. Even though blurry the instructions were able to be read. I just wish they made more sense and had diagrams to identify certain part locations.
It is a very detailed kit with unbelievably small parts which when they fly from the tweezers are virtually gone forever. The kit must contain parts for several versions of kits as there were extra parts I was able to fashion parts for ones that went missing.
I found the rungs on the ladders too hard to build the Tichy way and I used 2x3 scale plastic lumber as a replacement. I cut them long, glued them in place and later cut to fit. He kit does come with Tichy’s metal grab irons which are nice.
I found some parts making up the bulkheads not fitting as the pictures and instructions seemed to indicate, namely the angled end bracing. If I were to do another car I would make modifications to the braces. Sadly that day will probably never come as I don’t think I’ll buy another.
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