2023 November News Updates - A Month of Conventions & Shows

Shaking off the Covid-webs with a quick stop on the way to Bakersfield at Walong Siding. - a.k.a. Tehachapi Loop.

It was great to see everyone at Bridgetown RPM in Portland Oregon in early October and at the end of the month with the SPH&TS Convention in Bakersfield, California! Thanks to everyone for chatting and showing their support of OwlMtModel's new Decal offerings and the newly tooled Short-Wide Lumber Loads!

OwlMtModels table at the Bakersfield convention with a full table of products and models to look at and talk about!

The sales from the two October conventions allowed me to check out without the hotels breaking any knee caps or keeping me to wash dishes. It even allowed me to pay for the fuel to get home!

Piles of products to ship out... (Photo from Sept, 2017 F-50-series flatcar kits) - The orders for 3002/3003 lumber loads and decals has been almost this heavy!

The OwlMtModels crew is working all weekend to get the orders that came in during the second half of October ready to go.  Several items in the decal line are out of stock for a week or so, but we expect to have those back in-stock and shipped by mid-November.  Sorry for the delays.

Conversion Kits for Bachmann-Spectrum 2-8-0 to SP/Harriman C-class

Currently, we're waiting for the molds for the invests to be remade. This should be done during November, and hopefully test castings for the rods/yokes/crossheads/guides done before the end of the year.

Pilot Model for conversion parts.

Once we have those, we can go into production with the cylinder 3d printing and production run of white brass castings for the metal parts.

SP B-50-8/10/11/13/14 Series Conversion Kits & Supply Car Doors

Thanks for the continued interest in the conversion parts for the Accurail 4000-series kits to be converted into SP Boxcars.

Currently, I need to do some redesign to resolve 3d printing issue with the trial ends that we had made this summer. Now that I'm back from the SPHTS Convention and Bridgetown convention, I should be able to put some time into getting these conversions into production.

Thanks for everyone interested in these to put in their reservations now, so we can get a feel for how many sets we need to produce for the first batch.

New Products Coming

We have several new projects that are in the works as well in the background, which we've not announced. I'm sure all our SP modelers will enjoy our up coming projects.

We also have a new Lumber Loads, which we'll hopefully have ready by Early 2024, so remember to subscribe to this News Blog for updates on New Product Announcements! These shouldn't be so much of a surprise, as Jason's been talking about them at the in-person meets this year! So those folks attending were able to get some "behind the curtain peeks."

How Square is OwlMtModels Now?

OwlMtModels' store-front on Square's site.

Lastly, the conversion to Square for our on-line sales has been fairly smooth. A few minor shipping charge issues with getting the rates to calculate correctly, but those have mostly been solved now. Thanks to everyone who ordered in October and act as testers for the new Square storefront.

Navigation Page with-in the Store Front - Choose type of product on the left by category.

I am also planning to go back through the main OwlMtModels website and rearrange everything there. Hopefully it will become easier to navigate that site, and also incorporate links to this blog, video tutorials, and the Square On-Line Storefront as well.

Happy Modeling!
Jason Hill