I've been in the hobby for 50 yrs. I'm 78. continue to be fascinated by
the hobby. I have a kit under construction on my bench most of the time.
Didn't get into the hobby to build kits, but I've built dozens and seem to
enjoy building kits more than running trains, even tho I have a large pike
and models of most everything the Q had in my era (40's). I have some
problems I didn't used to have, but can still do a pretty good job of
putting the stuff together. Two of the guys I operate with are older than
I. Both do great scratch-building and kit-bashing and are good at fixing
brass malfunctions, which is a special skill in itself that if you avoid
doing, you have nothing running, so we spend plenty of time fixing, which
can be harder than building kits.
Now, nothing has thrilled me more than opening those BLI boxes which arrived
last week. It suits me fine that you can buy new stuff that will work well
out-of-the-box. I say: "Don't knock it!" Great models coming out these
days, and I love it!.
Dale Reeves
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From: <kohlj@bellsouth.net>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 2:57 PM
Subject: [CBQ] RTR vs Kits
> I'll add my voice to this great discussion, although I think that most of
> it has been said already...
>
> You have to kind of look at the type of operations that are being modeled
> now as well.
>
> If you were modelling 50 years ago, you could get away with realistic way
> freights and so on of 20-30 cars...thus allowing you more time to spend on
> each car.
>
> If you are modelling anything in the modern diesel era with through
> freights, (and enough layout room), you're talking 3-4 times the number of
> cars.
>
> I finally decided to settle on the K-line, 1975 (I originally was doing a
> dual timeframe layout, 1955 & 1975). Yeah, it's out of the Q era, but it
> still allows me to use a good amount of Q equipment. However, there were
> nothing but through freights and no passenger traffic, so you're talking
> 80-100+ freight cars per train. That's a LOT of kits...
>
> Frankly, with a truck change and a little airbrushing, I can make a 6-pack
> of hoppers look really nice running on the layout. It may not satisfy the
> rivet counters, but that was never my intention in the first place...
>
> Having said that, I've got a few kits that I plan to detail out, and I did
> keep some of my 1955 era Q stuff just for nostalgia purposes, so I'm doing
> the best of both worlds, I suppose.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
>
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