Detailed Blue Box Boxcar?

[rrinker]

Gary;
And speaking of "not shake the box kits", I've got a beautiful InterMountain cylindrical covered hopper that I've never attempted to assemble. All the grab irons and details must be separately applied and they are very delicate plastic parts! Maybe one day, I'll assemble that one, but with wire grab irons instead of the plastic. Used to think nothing about tackling a kit like this one, but now days get too nervous and shaky just looking at it!

Sounds like the Proto 2000 tank car kits. The first one I attempted got put away on a shelf in frustration. SOme time later, I went and bought another one, and I finally figured out the tricks. It too has scale size grabs on plastic sprues the size of an aqueduct tunnel, so even when you DO manage to clip the aprt off without breakign it, it tends to fly into parts unknown. My secret weapon with those is a single edge razor blade - and keeping a handed cupped over the area so it if does fly it bounces off my hand and onto the cutting mat. I also found that a little out of order assembly, compared to the instructions, makes things a LOT easier.

--Randy