Amati Stagecoach

[Don149]

Has anyone built the 1/10th Amati Wells Fargo stagecoach ? . What is your opinion of the kit , does it have metal wheel rims and are the doors hinged ? .

As the 1/32nd , WW II kits are in the Doldrums at the moment and I`ve only two in the stash I`m thinking of casting the net a little wider  .

Working in wood is no worry , having built five plank on frame fully rigged ships and I like the look of this model .

                                                                                                                                                                                      Don .

[Tankerman]

I built this kit a few years ago and enjoyed the experience. Having built many period wooden ship models this kit is a bit of light relief but still using ship building skills.

 

Yes, the doors are hinged and no, the wheels do not have metal rims but these are easily made from strips of brass, aluminium, plasticard or whatever you choose and can be tacked to the rim. 

The biggest modification I made to the kit was to bevel the edges of the wheel spokes. This was done by using a length of square brass tube in to which the spoke was a sliding fit. A chamfer was filed in to one edge of the tube to penetrate the edge over the required length of the bevel and a stop fitted over one open end of the tube. The spoke was then placed in the tube and the part exposed through the chamfer sanded away, the spoke was then removed, turned through 90 deg., re-inserted and the next edge sanded, this was repeated for each edge. The end result looked more realistic than plain square spokes.

 

 

 

 

I hope you enjoy this kit.

 

Chris

 

 

 

 

 

[Don149]

Many thanks Chris , most helpful . That is one lovely model and I like your spokes ,most realistic . Order going in.

                                                                                                                                                                                     Don .

[Don149]

Got the kit , Chris , it looks very good , but all the Amati titles have been replaced with Victory Models ones ! . Also gone is the Wells Fargo logo,

cut from the decal sheet . I thought my kit had been " got at " until I realized it was missing from the kit box top and all the illustrations therein .

I guess there must have been a copyright dispute sometime after you bought yours ! . What a disappointment .

                                                                                                                                                                                  Don .

[Tankerman]

Don, that really is a disappointment, it has been a while since I built my kit and I guess the absence of the logo is a copyright thing. Have you thought of printing the logo on clear decal film yourself? It looks like a pretty standard Roman font. Perhaps one of the specialist model decal printers might be able to oblige otherwise.

 

Good luck,

 

Chris

[Bughunter]

Hello,

some years ago I have also build the stage coach. Its a nice kit, but I changed to details. The Winchester parts with PE are very nice!

The suspension on my model is made from real leather, works great and is still ok.

Here are the final pictures:

https://www.scalemates.com/profiles/mate.php?id=21997&p=albums&album=41711

 

I made also a build report. It is in german, but the pics and a online translator may help.

http://modellboard.net/index.php?topic=39269.0

 

My plans are also from Victroy models, Amati has taken the plan, added materials and made a kit from it.

Really bad, that some companies do not understand, what a great advertising such model is! A shame on companies which wants to sell licenses to kit manufacturer and force to destroy decals otherwise! Business buffoons!