Thursday, April 30, 2020

Laser Stuckem?

Left: E. L. Moore's Stukem Glue Works from MR Oct '77; Right: GCLaser's Blucher Glue Works
John was mentioning that he'll have two of the E. L. Moore machine shop kits - one of them purchased at a store in Toronto when he was 14 - in a new rural area on his layout. He sent me a link to GCLaser, and I noticed their Blucher Glue Works kit is very similar to E. L. Moore's Stuckem Glue Works that appeared in the October '77 issue of Model Railroader. I was lucky to see E. L. Moore's original back in 2015. The kit looks quite nice and would certainly be a quicker way to build up a new glue works for your layout than cutting a lot of balsa and inking a lot of window frames :-)
Left: E. L. Moore's Stukem Glue Works from MR Oct '77; Right: GCLaser's Blucher Glue Works
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  1. Galen GallimoreApril 30, 2020 at 4:57 PM

    Blucher! (...hears neighing in the distance...)

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  2. VBDiMay 1, 2020 at 1:23 PM

    It's ironic that MR wouldn't publish ELM's 6 "lost" articles because they were "not up to today's standards" yet his designs are still made into expensive craftsman kits! With all the prototypes available today, kit makers still love ELM creations. His are timeless, charming and adaptable to most layouts. By the way, better resolution photos of this kit can be found here: https://www.walthers.com/blucher-glue-works

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    1. J D LoweMay 1, 2020 at 2:44 PM

      ELM is a great - and I'd say more-or-less unsung (except for here of course :-) ) - influence in model railroad structures.

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