Another Era Ends.

[Sumpter250]

I suspect that is the reason manufacturers are kind of in a quandry. How many modelers want to build shake the box kits?
I have a bunch that I'm going to build, but I will shave off most of the cast on details and add grabs, ladders, and brake detail to them. I would guess from my local hobby shop that most people just want to put it on the rails and run it. In fact what I find interesting is that my local hobby shop caries 1/87 scale vehicles in the train dept. and the guys building trucks seem to be doing a lot more detailing, kit bashing, and scratch building than the train people!

Don't discount the car & truck builders as not being "train people". Many are----- the reason I pcked model trains as my "final hobby" was that more than anything I like to build models--- I built airplanes ((no plastic ones--ugh), cars , boats, then one day it dawned on me that , in as much as I had seen buildings & many other things that I would like to model that the ONLY hobby that could include ALL these elements, (who ever built an airport to go with the planes? ) was model railroading , because in this hobby the whole world is your prototype.

I got my start building model sailing ships. Building models soon spread to all the other things in a model railroad......buildings, bridges, scenes, trees etc.,etc.
Watch some of the RTR people, they will one day move on to bigger and better things.......some, will not.