dkdkrd.... thanks for reminding me that I am old.. I have some of the campbell kits ever see the pine tree?
and yes they are still unbuilt!
And, yes, they are still available, too! Walthers carries them. But have you checked the prices lately?!?!?
I, too, have a bunch of the HO kits...but I've built more than I have remaining kits. They taught me much about 'craftsman' kits. For one thing, the old die-cut walls (especially after the cutting edges of their tooling become dull!) are NO match for the laser-cut walls of today's models. Campbell, in fact, has at least one kit they've since converted to laser cutting. I'm not sure about the other kits....I, myself, am into O scale now, and our (LHS) HO customers who have the moxie to do craftsman kits are mostly into the laser-cut brands. The pine tree kits (I still have several in my own pile of scenery stuff.) are really quite nice, IMHO. My favorite was Grandma's House...still have it, built and detailed...a classic...and I might use the old brown-around-the-edges, torn, and dog-eared instruction sheet/plans to scale the house for an O version.
We're old? Nah....as Groucho once said, "You're only as old as ...". Oh, I'd better not finish the quote...der Forumeister might not allow it!
Happy Thursday!
KD
