{"id":304,"date":"2013-02-03T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2021-06-24T03:25:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T03:25:55","slug":"how-long-to-build-a-scale-craft-4-6-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"How long does it take to build a Scale-Craft 4-6-0 kit?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It might not be the burning question of the ages, but I was very interested to recently see noted clearly on a set of drawings for the Scale-Craft OO 4-6-0 the dates and number of hours in each sitting that were taken to build one of these back in 1939. The list starts as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>10-23 \u2013 1 Planning<br>10-24 \u2013 1 Planning<br>10-26 \u2013 5 Assembly<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The list includes notations also for Paint and Letter, concluding on 12-15 with \u00bc hour for assembly. All told it totals up 37.5 hours spread over 20 separate work sessions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Scale-Craft 4-6-0 kit was a quality product but by no means \u201cshake the box.\u201d Makes you want to show a bit more respect for these old models and their builders!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>The 4-6-0 drawings below are from pre-war Scale-Craft decal sets.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SC-decals-loco.jpg?resize=640%2C263&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SC-decals-loco.jpg?resize=1024%2C420&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SC-decals-loco.jpg?resize=300%2C123&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SC-decals-loco.jpg?resize=768%2C315&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SC-decals-loco.jpg?resize=1536%2C630&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SC-decals-loco.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SC-decals-loco.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might not be the burning question of the ages, but I was very interested to recently see noted clearly on a set of drawings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scale-craft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SC-decals-loco.jpg?fit=1600%2C656&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2546,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/2546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}