First up is the initial Release of our Newest Mini Kit.

MK103 – Fish Belly Side Sills for the Tichy Boom Car

Tichy’s excellent Boom car has been around for many years, but only builds as a car with a straight side sill. Many Rail Roads had similar boom cars, but with fish belly side sills, these are a drop in replacement.  More info can be found by clicking on the product Link.

The Tight Spot Sanders have been restocked.

T100 – Tight Spot Sanders

National Scale Car will be at the Chicagoland RPM on Oct 24-26th and we will release new Mini Kits at the meet.

Doors featuring Union Duplex fixtures and door tracks. These Mini Kits will have a pair of resin doors, etched door tracks, decals and trust plates(if applicable). We have developed all new patterns for the doors with the Union Duplex Hardware in the following variations.

• Youngstown Doors for 1932 ARA Boxcars.
• Youngstown Doors for 1937 ARR Boxcars in 10′ and 10’6″ Heights
• Superior Doors for 1937 ARR Boxcars in 10′ Height.

These Mini Kits will be released for the following Rail Roads

Atlantic Coast Line, Missouri Illinois, Missouri Pacific, Texas and Pacific, Southern Pacific and Texas and New Orleans

These will be available in our web store shortly after the meet.

Pierre Oliver Built the SP pilot model, you can read more about building the car here. http://elgincarshops.blogspot.com/2019/07/i-consider-it-privilege.html

A restock of the CP and CN NSC3 end mini kits will also be available for the meet.

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We have restocked the Tight Spot Sanders.

• T-100 Tight Spot Sanders

We’ve been busy working on new HO Scale kits. Here is what’s in the works.

Doors featuring Union Duplex fixtures and door tracks. These Mini Kits will have a pair of resin doors, etched door tracks, decals (ACL, MI, MP, T&P, SP.) and trust plates if applicable. We have developed all new patterns for the doors with the union Duplex Hardware in the following versions.

• Youngstown Doors for 1932 ARA Boxcars.
• Youngstown Doors for 1937 ARR Boxcars in 10′ and 10’6″ Heights
• Superior Doors for 1937 ARR Boxcars in 10′ Height.

We have developed all new patterns for the more modern Duryea Underframe. This is the version used under many 1937 ARR cars etc. Here is a picture of the first test cast. We plan to include etched parts in addition to the resin bits.

We have all new patterns for the ends used on the B&O M55 series of Boxcars. We’re also working on the roof featured on these boxcars.

Last but not least we have Fish Belly Side Sills for the Tichy Boom Car. Tichy’s excellent Boom car has been around for many years but only builds as a car with a straight side sill. Many roads had similar cars but with fish belly side sills, these are a drop in replacement. This will be our next release.

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The CN and CP mini kits with NSC3 End have been restocked and we have added a new item to our line. To keep updated on all our kit releases by email, sign up using the “Subscribe by email” feature or by RSS feed using the “Entries RSS” feed.

The Tight Spot Sanders is our first tool release. Modelling should be fun, not frustrating. Our line of modelling tools are focused on making tedious tasks easier.

• T-100 Tight Spot Sanders
• MK100.1 – CN 10’6” AAR BOXCAR WITH NSC3 ENDS – GREEN LEAF DECALS
• MK100.2 – CN 10’6” AAR BOXCAR WITH NSC3 ENDS – NOODLE DECALS
• MK101.1 – CP 10’6” AAR CAR WITH NSC3 ENDS – STEP GOTHIC DECALS
• MK101.2 – CP 10’6” AAR CAR WITH NSC3 ENDS – SCRIPT DECALS

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Hello fellow prototype railroad modellers. This is the first of hopefully many posts, regarding new kit releases from National Scale Car. Our focus is mini kits. For those unfamiliar with the mini kit concept, it allows a modeller to take a mass produced piece of rolling stock and transform it into a unique version of the prototype – by substituting parts such as ends, doors or under frames.

Our first mini kit releases are HO Scale and are based on 40′ Boxcars built by National Steel Car of Hamilton Ontario. The cars were built between 1954 and 1956 with the unique NSC3 end and featured 6′ wide doors.

National Scale Car launched April 14th at the LakeShore Model Railroader Association show. We sold more kits than expected, but still have some inventory from our first run. More parts are in the pipeline, and we will add kits to inventory as soon as they arrive.

• MK100.1 – CN 10’6” AAR BOXCAR WITH NSC3 ENDS – GREEN LEAF DECALS
• MK100.2 – CN 10’6” AAR BOXCAR WITH NSC3 ENDS – NOODLE DECALS
• MK101.1 – CP 10’6” AAR CAR WITH NSC3 ENDS – STEP GOTHIC DECALS
• MK101.2 – CP 10’6” AAR CAR WITH NSC3 ENDS – SCRIPT DECALS

If there is enough interest in kits supplied with CP Multi Mark Decals, I will add these to our line. Please use the contact page to express your interest.…