A copy of our second newsletter, typos and all, and I stuffed up the greeting bit at the top, not to worry, I will get it right next time, maybe?

Unfortunately the pictures aren't showing, if you had signed up for the newsletter you would have them! I will have to find out how to do that bit.

Hello and welcome to our second newsletter, with a bit of luck you'll get some pictures with this one!
It is a really busy time just now with Toowomba Exhibition this weekend, 1st and 2nd June and Sydney the following long weekend. Many of you have ordered ahead for Sydney, and your orders are packed ready for pick up at the exhibition, if you are planning to place an order for pick up at
Sydney please do so by Tuesday the 4th June to ensure it is packed and waiting for you. We have new kits and decals for Toowoomba and Sydney exhibtions, more detail on that below.
News from the factory... NEW kits. RF04S-FD UME Flat Wagon with Fordson Tractor Load. RF04S-FG UME Flat Wagon with Ferguson Tractor Load. RF04S-LR UME Flat Wagon with Land Rover Load. The MLE and variants was one of the most versatile wagons in the NSW wagon fleet. Not being restricted with roof's and sides it could be combined with other vehicles to carry a variety of goods, and as such it was used to
transport vehicles and farm impliments from major city importers to far flung country areas. Recently some tractors and short wheel base
landrovers appeared on the Australian market and AR Kits has been fortunate enough to obtain limited supplies of these items. UME wagons
are being released in limited numbers with three different codes as listed above and shown below, while there is supply of these vehicles we
will continue these kits in our range. The kits come complete with the UME kit, 2 vehicles, Kadee finehead couplers, 50cm AR Kits Blackened
Chain 48 links per inch (Product code MWA024), 16 urethane wheels chocs, screws, decals and instructions. Cost of the kits are $54.00 each.


RF04S-FG UME Flat Wagon with Ferguson Tractor Load

RF04S-FD UME Flat Wagon with Fordson Tractor Load


RF04S-LR UME Flat Wagon with Land Rover Load

RF05
TME Flat Wagon with Pipe Load. A number of MLE wagons were converted for transport of pipe loads with the addition of two bolsters at each
end. The ever reliable AR Kits MLE has had 2 urethane bolsters added as well as 6 pipes and 50cm of AR Kits Blackened Chain, 48 links per inch
(Product code MWA024) to secure the load. The TME will become a permanent part of the AR Kits roster.


RF05 TME Flat Wagon with Pipe Load. Kit price $35.00.

New
Coal Loads... NHHF Coal Loads to compliment the NHHF Coal Hopper. Three style of coal loads have been produced to match those seen in
photographs, they come painted ready to drop into your NHHF Coal Hopper. They are easily inserted and removed so you can run your coal hopper empty or loaded.Product code FCDP05A, FCDP05B and FCDP05C @ $9.00 each.

Brass Detail Parts... Some brass detail parts are becoming short in supply and will remain that way until a new caster is found with some parts
disappearing altogether and new ones being added.

Motors... In he changing world of manufacture we went from ordering direct from Mashima to going through an agent, to going back to ordering direct from Mashima. Ordering via the agent just did not work!!! An order we placed many months ago we hope to have in the next couple of weeks, consiquently some stocks of motors are quite low.

Decals...A decal that has been around for some time is the NCTY Tubemakers Structural decal that can be used with modified Austrains BDY's. A line drawing of  the NCTY decal is shown below. A number of NODY's were recoded for hot slab steel traffic and had a BHP Steel Rod Division plaquard attached to the side of the wagon. Accurate details of the signage has been difficult to obtain but with a lot of persisitance, a final result has been achieved. We do believe that this is the most accurate decal produced so far, which will help modellers complete their steel traffic roster with the NHKY. New decals in HO are now available for the Austrains FO. there are enough decals in each packet to do over 100 cars. Product code MWD092 HO FO Shaded NUmbers Price $6.00 and the Austrains CCA. Product code MWA093 HO CCA Shaded Numbers. Price $6.00. These are a special run and when stock runs out new numbers will be run with either 10 high or 10 low numbers only. Price will then be $5.00.