Jerry,
I think it is sort of like a real RR. You pick and choose what you can
do. Not every RR built their own locomotives, freight cars and track
structure. In modeling eye sight certainly can be an issue. I know mine
isn't what it used to be, now at 62. In fact, I used to scoff at those
magnifying visors, but I keep one handy now days which I inherited from
my dad. There is another issue for me and that is that as I get older,
I realized that my time is rapidly diminishing. I have to cut corners
somewhere if I want to have even a satisfactory RR in my life time. My
focus tends to be on locomotives and so, I plan time to work on them.
Even at that, I have purchased some RTR high quality locomotive models.
While I work in O scale which helps some of the age related problems,
there is a tendency to do more in terms of details because you can.
Somewhere, most of us finally realize that we have to "draw a line" and
I choose to do that with locomotive detail and overall appearance of
the RR. RTR cars give my locomotives a reasonably good looking train to
pull.
Bill Barber
On Tuesday, November 15, 2005, at 07:07 AM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:04:28 -0500
> From: "Jerry Krueger" <jakrueg@neo.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: Re: Broadway Ltd Cal Zephyr Cars @ Trainfest
>
>
> Text Deleted
>
> . . .
>> On the Intermountain front, I fully agree with Mr. Manley. The hobby
>> has
> become "a pull it out of the box and run it". As far as the
> manufacturers,
> they are just keeping up with the trend. Bucking trends in business is
> sometimes a recipe for disaster. We all know that if you find a store
> that
> still stocks some kits, they generally have some "real estate"
> collected on
> the box.
>>
>> Jim Becker
>> Mokena, IL
>>
>
> I was thinking about this the other day. Could the lack of kits be a
> function an aging modeler base? As one gets older and their eyesight
> gets a
> little worse, maybe the ability to assemble some of these finer kits is
> compromised, while at the same time their income level increases
> (including
> disposable income since Billy and Suzie are out of the house) and they
> will
> pay the premium for a RTR, well detailed kit?
>
> Me preference is still to by the kit and build it when possible. So
> far my
> eyesight hasn't gone yet!!
>
> Jerry K
>
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