How much can we justify spending?

[Brakie]

John your appreciation of Lance's work is well documented.

Ralph, just to make it clear, I think Lance's work is remarkably good. It's his blog that's frequently bizarre. It's probably not much different from the really talented actor who doesn't have the sense to keep his mouth shut offstage.

Well,I think there's a lot of misinterpretation in reading the written word..I truly doubt if Lance ever suggest his is the only way to build a layout.Look how much of Tony Koester's "Trains of thought/LDEs or operation" is still being misinterpreted.
How about the other layout or operation trend setters? They too have been misinterpreted. Yet none of them say "Ya's gotta do it this- a- way.

However.

As you know there are those that feel you're not a real modeler if your models isn't 100% correct and they're not backward in saying that directly and there's no misinterpretation in they are saying because of their bluntness..