Here's the deal with Del Prado models...

1. No more toolings are planned, beyond the 150 created to date.

2. Of those 150 toolings, only a couple dozen replicate US or Canadian rigs.

3. Of those couple dozens American rigs, the quality varies widely. In my opinion, it ranges from reasonably good to awful. The quality in also uniformly lower than the Euro and Asian rigs, in my opinion.

4. Jeff Silver, who posts on this board, has a company that is working on a repaint series of models. He's asked for feedback in other postings.

5. You can obtain Del Prado models through a number of means, all of which have been detailed, discussed, and debated in earlier posts.

6. Did I miss anything?

mjl

Yes, I missed a couple things:

6. The construction of the models varies greatly, suggesting that perhaps different factories (or would that be manufacturing processes?) were used to make the various models.

7. The models vary in scale. Deal with it.

8. The models are not necessarily precision scale, but reasonably close.

mjl

another thing is we have to quit crying about del prado especially when it comes to ho scale or 1/80 scale.i never even had anything close to realistic as far as an ho ladder until i got my bronto.the quint and the hp-100 show promise too so if the hp-75 does not have a turntable so what ?.if your a kitbasher like me, you can replicate a turntable and light's,acc's etc.del prado has been a step in the right direction.they are not asking a mint for their model's either.