10-17-2009, 09:27 PM
From the manufacturer's viewpoint, a kit is a headache in the offing. Someone has to count all the bits, package them and put the right packages in the box. Then someone at the hobby shop opens the box and drops a bit or two out. The next guy buys the kit and finds it short a door or a roofwalk or a truck screw and writes in for a replacement and they have to find the right bit and mail it out, trusting that the customer actually bought a kit missing a bit.
An RTR model has all the bits applied at the factory, goes into a sealed box and that's it.
Ah, well. Who remembers the complaints about putting "$1.29 plastic squeeze bottles" behind $100 brass articulateds? (or was it $50 then?)
An RTR model has all the bits applied at the factory, goes into a sealed box and that's it.
Ah, well. Who remembers the complaints about putting "$1.29 plastic squeeze bottles" behind $100 brass articulateds? (or was it $50 then?)
David
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.