01-29-2009, 02:37 PM
My interest in model railroading, was simply an expansion of model building. A layout gave me more variety of things to build models of.
Rolling stock was almost exclusively in kit form, with the exception of boxed sets, and just about every piece I had was kit built, and later, as I got better at building, scratchbuilt.
RTR has come about because the "public" wanted it. "I want to run trains now!, and don't have time to be building things". There's a place in this hobby for those who don't want, or haven't the skill, or haven't the desire, to build. So be it. I still have the desire to build, and there are plenty of kits out there to build or bash, or repaint/re-letter.
Yeah, I prefer flextrack. I did, however, experience the art of handlaying track........there are some things I don't really enjoy doing, and track laying is one of them. Scenery, on the other hand......well, so far there is nothing "premade" on the market that I would use, out of the box. Everything gets "modified", or built from scratch.
Do I remember? Don't have to, I still have my first loco, a Varney "docksider", "Lil Joe", and some of my very first scratchbuilt rolling stock. They may not get any run time now, but many of my early kit builds do.
Rolling stock was almost exclusively in kit form, with the exception of boxed sets, and just about every piece I had was kit built, and later, as I got better at building, scratchbuilt.
RTR has come about because the "public" wanted it. "I want to run trains now!, and don't have time to be building things". There's a place in this hobby for those who don't want, or haven't the skill, or haven't the desire, to build. So be it. I still have the desire to build, and there are plenty of kits out there to build or bash, or repaint/re-letter.
Yeah, I prefer flextrack. I did, however, experience the art of handlaying track........there are some things I don't really enjoy doing, and track laying is one of them. Scenery, on the other hand......well, so far there is nothing "premade" on the market that I would use, out of the box. Everything gets "modified", or built from scratch.
Do I remember? Don't have to, I still have my first loco, a Varney "docksider", "Lil Joe", and some of my very first scratchbuilt rolling stock. They may not get any run time now, but many of my early kit builds do.
We always learn far more from our own mistakes, than we will ever learn from another's advice.
The greatest place to live life, is on the sharp leading edge of a learning curve.
Lead me not into temptation.....I can find it myself!
The greatest place to live life, is on the sharp leading edge of a learning curve.
Lead me not into temptation.....I can find it myself!