Why model in S? If you like the size...if you like a little more distance between the rails...then maybe S scale is right for you. If your comment that HO doesn't work really holds....then if you're not in a hurry, or if a look at S Helper Service's Showcase Line, American Models and Bill's Train Shop convinces you that what you want to model is available...then have at it. If you don't feel compelled to have everything or anything you can think of "NOW", then S scale can work. If you're planning to do some serious prototype modelling and replicate specific prototype scenes....then scratchbuilding is going to be a part of your life...and you really have the freedom to pick whatever scale you want. S can work pretty well here, too. If what you don't see on a website or store shelf doesn't seem limiting, then S scale can work. If spending time on your layout building models of cars, detailing engines, painting rolling stock, lettering, etc. etc. etc.....if you enjoy model railroading the old fashioned way...S can work. If you never want to touch a thing but run nostalgic American Flyer two-rail "hi-rail" or "tin plate", S scale can work here pretty well, too.
But what's true for S scale is also true for the more popular scales. Your space calls for some pretty sharply defined choices. My recommendation is that once you enumerate some of these more clearly, it will be easier for someone on this lest to help you determine whether those choices are really compatible with S scale. Heck, the other day I heard from a modeller building an 1870's steam layout in in S scale....just about the hardest to-do thing I've heard...but he's not intimidated. I've done N scale, I've done HO, and I've drooled over O scale....just can't seem to talk myself out of S scale....but I do keep trying every now and again. Best of luck to you. Skip The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
