We probably need to be careful about assuming that the majority of people on 
the S-scale internet list are active modelers.  They could be, and I amnot 
saying they are definitely not.  Remember though that Frank Titman, one of the 
most active modelers to come on the scene, does not--as I understand it--even 
own a computer.  No question about it: Fooling around on the computer as I am 
doing now takes time away from modeling.

Take a look at the steamfreightcars list.  I think it has about 900 
subscribers, but most are silent observers.  Perhaps they all model actively 
and aggressively, but the models that show up in photos on the list come from 
about 25 to 30 people or so.  I say again: True, the rest could be busily 
modeling in their basement, attics, or wherever.  

On the other hand, I have about 30 unbuilt kits in my current stash and still I 
take time to kitbash.  That takes more time away from assembling those unbuilt 
kits.  When I finish converting the AM wood caboose with its radial roof to a 
peaked-roof saddle coupla version fashioned after the kind found on the Chicago 
Great Western, I plan to go to work on an SHS PS-2 covered hopper and kitbash 
it into a Pullman-built covered hopper with square hatches.  It will take weeks 
to do all this because I still work and fool around on the internet.

I suspect whether the scale is HO or S or O modelers have quite a few unbuilt 
kits in their inventory and that things progress slowly, and in some cases 
hardly at all.

Tom



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