What is the #1 missing product

[nkp_174]

Maybe its just me, but I could never see why anyone would model something you're not going to see on the layout. Air tanks, triple valves and cylinders with brake rods going to the trucks is fine. Maybe some air line that connect to visible brake gear, but unless I was modeling a car, in the ditch on its side, applying trainlines, air lines, and other underbody detail is a waste. Kinda like Athearn having thier roller bearing caps rotate, unless I have my head laid right up on the layout and the train was rolling slowly by..OK. A lot of the newer Athearn's have this detail, and I tell you, with one of my trains rolling at track speed...I don't see it.

I'm not saying there is anything wrong with detailing underbodies. In fact, some of it looks real excellent, such as on the good Dr's, but to me, its a waste of time that could be spent on some other aspect of my rolling stock.The time I spend super detailing the underbody of rolling stock, that no one is going to see anyway,could be spent, super detailing a loco.
I guess I'm just a KISS(Keep It Simple Stupid) kinda guy.

Is someone insulting my internal boxcar framing???

I can't see the whistle blow...yet so many modelers insist on spending $100+ to have such a feature! And then there are those cigar-smoke-from-the-stack guys...mostly O-gaugers apostates, I think. (the sound bug has partially bitten me...and I can see why some must have smoke in sync with the exhaust).

I usually draw the line at body-hung brake beams as they don't like my tight curves...but I love adding some of brake details.

I'm surprised that there is a diesel type out there, which has more than one owner...and yet there isn't a plastic model of it.

Someone needs to come out with examples of every NKP locomotive and car...in plastic...and very cheap.

I've found that due to the price, and also somewhat due to the fun of building, I really don't care what is commercially offered for the South Park in On3 or for HO NKP passenger cars. I'd rather build them...so I'm inclined to see something such as a particular complex detail part, mechanism, or other hard-to-build item as what I'd like to see. But I think that the #1 missing item in the hobby needs to have a wide appeal...far beyond any particular railroad...kind of like a good plastic 2-8-0 was over 10 years ago. Now, it seems that most manufacturers are focused on such and such train or major cosmetic variations on a particular prototype.