LOL! I haven't followed the original thread, but I wonder if the model manufacturers couldn't 'cheat' and do what the car model kit mfr's used to do with Pontiac's Trans Am. "Trans Am" was a term used by the SCCA race club and had to be licensed by Pontiac as well as anyone making replicas. One kit mfr made their decal sheet with all the letters, just in seperate places in groups of two or three and you had to "put them together". With the exception of the UP shield, the lettering could certainly be done the same way. Just offer the bodies painted and add a decal sheet with 'random letters' to the builder. Screw 'em!
The truly ironic part is I had planned on doing this long before the trademark issue ever came up. I just finally got around to it; Santa brought me a Testors decal kit
Hee hee hee.......I LIKE it! Incidentally, I don't believe that the name "BORG" is a copyrighted trademark of the Unlimited Parking folks, so you could use that one....... and replace the "Dependable Transportation" slogan on the cab sides with "Resistance is Futile". (said the avid Frisco modeler, who's happy Beansniff hasn't followed suit-yet)
Great humor guys! I guess I have to buy all the old unused Big Boys, and run them under my own name now?
Since C&O sarted this crap, Have any of ya seen C&O hearealds or banners on this forum? Do you think the same will follow for NON SPECIFIC? Just one more way to get your name out there, EH?
HA! LOVE the humor fella's, this happens to go B&O I'll be doing "Best & Oldest" Watash, The Big Boys in my collection became Yellowstones! So.... I ain't got that to worry about with the NON SPECIFIC!
If I didn't have UP power and a UP CA-3 caboose to depict runthrough service on my Frisco Spring River Sub, I'd park them on a siding somewhere with a train (which, given the Borg's record of late, is prototypical )
