New Walthers kits will be released late 2014 to early 2015... interesting

Calzephyr Sep 12, 2014

  1. Calzephyr

    Calzephyr TrainBoard Supporter

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    Walthers is going to offer a completely new kit in N scale and a smaller version of a former kit that uses some of the same parts.

    The new "Hole in One" donut shop is a small inexpensive kit which can serve as the basis for several types of fast food or other retail uses. It is nice to see a new small town/city retail structure which can be flexible enough to fit in tight spots. After discounting... this building should fit most modelers budgets at under $20.00 from the $25.00 MSRP

    The new "Diamond Coal Company" mine kit is a revised version of the former "New River Mining Company" mine kit. This new mine uses some of the original sections of the former kit with a couple of new sections. It is supposed to take-up a smaller footprint than the "New River" kit. The new kit costs as much (or more?) as the former (larger) version and should be under $40.00 after discounting from the $50.00 MSRP.

    For me... the Diamond Coal Company mine kit is not as interesting... the former New River Mining Company kit could be altered to be very much the same as this 'new' kit. Still... there may be some variations to this kit which will make it unique enough to set it apart from the former mining kit Walthers made. It is always a good thing to see new items... and even some 'revised' older kits... instead of seeing NOTHING at all.

    Hopefully these kits will sell well enough to inspire Walthers to continue creating new ones.
     
  2. Spookshow

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    Good to see Walthers coming out with some new N scale kits. Now if we could just persuade them to release N scale versions of some of their modern grain elevator structures...

    Cheers,
    -Mark
     
  3. data_engine

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    Woo-Hoo! Valley Cement and the ethanol plant for me!
     
  4. data_engine

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    Woo-Hoo! Valley Cement and the ethanol plant for me!
     
  5. Calzephyr

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    Well... I know those two items are definitely HO scale items... but... not yet announced for N scale.
    :cool: I do like the Valley Cement model!!
     
  6. PGE-N°2

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    The way Walthers is, these days, it would probably take a lot of persuading.
     
  7. SinCity

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    Glad to hear the donut shop is coming to N. I was a bit jealous when it was released in HO. I'll be in line for one.
     
  8. steamghost

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    I remain very skeptical about these ever being released based on W's history in N. Things already produced in HO have been announced for N scale but have been almost always cancelled. They have stated that they produce N structures based on HO sales, so hope that the HO versions do really well.
     

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