06-19-2009, 09:44 AM
modelsof1900 Wrote:Gus, thank you very much for your honouring comment.
Sorry, however I would like to answer to your mean that the model should be part of a showcase.
Showcases should contain fine and rare items; that is right. However if items will have technical functions as it do all our railroad models than I think our models should run on a good detailed layout showing these items in an area close to the original.
Look for fine detailed steam loco models. Seeing their fine mechanic like side roads and gearing. Looking it in a showcase will be impressed. However seeing them in move the impressions will be much time greater. However I know also that the minimum speed must be small enough for seeing all these details in movement. However that is now the result of digitalizing, loco models can move very slowly – and than hear the shuff, shuff of a steam loco! However also here - it must be done very well for highest satisfaction in model building.
Right on, Bernhard! I always find it funny when I remember an article on early brass in Model Railroader a few years ago. I think the article was written in the late 1980's or early 1990's and was a history of some of the brass manufacturers. One of the manufacturers had made a mistake and installed 1.5 volt motors in some of it's locomotives instead of 12 volt motors. They notified their distributors and the hobby shops of the mistake and advised that they would replace the motors in any locomotive that was returned to the dealer. Less than 10% of the production run was returned. This was back in the days before people were asked to fill out and mail in warranty cards, so the manufacturer had no idea who the customers were. Obviously 90% of the production run were put on a shelf in the original boxes or else display cases and had never been run! They may even have been traded at shows or between various brass dealers as collector's items, too valuable to actually paint or put on a track and run!