Modifying and Scratch-Building O-Gauge 'Streets Vehicles is now available on that big-river website. You can find it on that big-river website by using the search feature in the book section, asking for "Modifying and Scratch-Building . . . " here is the full link
http://www.amazon.com/Modifyin...and+Scratch-Building
- This is the book I know many people wanted most to see, more than the first: all about, and only about, conversions of die-cast cars, trucks, buses and tractor trailers to 'Streets. It is 148 pages (versus 90 for the first book) - a nearly 64% increase in length, but I managed to keep the list price to only $19.95, just a 33% increase of the first book, by "playing" big-river's pricing algorithm a bit. To do so I had to limit its distribution to only via the big-river website (i.e., the second book cannot be ordered through most bookstores, as can the first: Big river doesn't get enough profit at that price, through a retailer, etc.).
- Note: They seem to have some sort of dynamic pricing algorithm in place here, that reduces the cost of their Createspace books that sell well on nearly a daily basis (I suspect I have it figured out . . . but not here). Anyway, this new book is already discounted to $18.95 (it went on sale sometime overnight and has in its first six hours actually sold one copy - I have no idea how anyone found it so fast, but . . . ) but the first book is selling well enough that the on-line price is now below ten dollars.
- I will eventually have this new book as a low-res photo download on my website, but I do recommend the Amazon book here: even printed by Amazon, some of the very hi-res zoom photos I have in the 'step-by-step are a bit fuzzier than I would like. At low res a few are hard to tell what screw the arrows in diagrams are pointing to, etc.
- Eventually, I would like to have a third book, on electrical matters for 'Streets: block control of road sections, using switches (when available), adding lights (to cars and as stop lights to intersections, etc). Not anytime soon, though. These two books required much more work than I expected.
