FURX Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Spiral Tank Car. Black. Version 2

I had high hopes for this release, but for me it is a swing and a miss on the whole. Let's start with communication. Communication was evidently a low priority to the Roka team. for me, emails & FB messages went unanswered for weeks after payment was made for the pre-order, a time spanning nearly 9 weeks from payment to receipt. Shipment was delayed at the port (fair enough) but that info was also not communicated to paid customers, leading to more questions than answers. The cars themselves look good, but are severely underweight by 2+ oz. & creative personal modifications are needed to add weight. Roka offered no refund for this gaff, only excuses. Overall, not super impressed for the cost of each car. Will likely be my only order with Roka, unless they announce a product not previously done in HO.

Where to begin? Let's start with communication. Emails went nearly unanswered, I believe I got a single reply back to questions. Facebook Messenger wasn't much better but I got 2-3 responses there after days of waiting for a reply. Shipment was delayed at the port (fair enough) but none of that was relayed until much later and well after being paid in full. So that led to many questions but very little answers. The cars themselves look good but are severely underweight by 2+ oz. Creative modifications are needed to add weight. Overall, not super impressed for the cost of each car. Will likely be my only order with Roka, unless they announce some other never done car that's needed in this hobby. Best of luck, hopefully they won't be another Arrowhead.

Where to begin? Let's start with communication. Emails went nearly unanswered, I believe I got a single reply back to questions. Facebook Messenger wasn't much better but I got 2-3 responses there after days of waiting for a reply. Shipment was delayed at the port (fair enough) but none of that was relayed until much later and well after being paid in full. So that led to many questions but very little answers. The cars themselves look good but are severely underweight by 2+ oz. Creative modifications are needed to add weight. Overall, not super impressed for the cost of each car. Will likely be my only order with Roka, unless they announce some other never done car that's needed in this hobby. Best of luck, hopefully they won't be another Arrowhead.

I will not bash Roka, we are not all perfect and I understand we make mistakes. Roka makes great products but this one fell off a little. First off i will say the detail on the cars is great, the only 2 issues that I have as far as detail goes is the weld seams. I handle these cars daily and the weld seams on the model are by far too exaggerated. I have thought about fixing it but my method would require stripping the car down and doing a lot of sanding and filling to make it look right and therefore in my eyes is just not worth the time. The second detail thing to note was the misspelling of liquified. Simple fix but for the price of the car something that simple shouldn't have happened. Moving to QC issues right out of the box i noticed an oily substance in quite a few places around on the car and plenty of fingerprints on the railcar, easy fix but for 65 dollars that’s unacceptable. I know the issue is now being addressed but the weight is a problem. It should have never shipped without being addressed first. Besides all the issues I don’t mind the car, would I buy one again, no. Once again I won’t bash Roka or any of their products as they do make great railcars, but this one is just a miss.

Misspelling, finger prints on tank body, glue on thank body, no weight, trucks are not tight enough and no weight, disappointed at the least! Also the couplers, not tight look shelf type .