AMEN! Ed, I didn't know you were a preacher!? LOL!!! But seriously... that's what I did, and I made it happen for me! I cane into S knowing that there was little to nothing in it pertaining to my favorite railroad, and worked to see to it that this sad fact changed. It might have taken nearly 2 years, but I finally succeeded, and my SAL Turtle-Back boxcar will be out by the end of this year (barring any unforeseen events i.e. alien invasion, earth-shattering cataclysmic disturbances, the rapture of the church, the Night of the Living Dead, and so forth). This sort of determination could, I guess, be interpreted as stubbornness... but at least its a fruitful stubbornness. And I base it on this principle : "... that if any would not work, neither should he eat." (2 Thes. 3:10).
As for RTR models... we might as well start calling them Matchbox Trains instead of Models. But I, for one, will ALWAYS frefer the KIT to the RTR... for the sake of retaining my own modeling skills and individuality/uniqueness of the custom, personalized finished product. Anyone can buy something off the shelf, but pride in a scratch-built, custom-built or kit-built model cannot be bought. The prices that some custom-built/painted models sell for on ebay (and other places) proves that. John Degnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] John's World On The Web www.trainweb.org/seaboard/welcome.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: ed_loizeaux To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:01 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} Pathetic.........?? A "real" S scale guy does not pout when he cannot find what he wants. He goes out and does something about it. In some cases, he makes up a kit and then sells extras to the S community at large. In other cases, he encourages an established manufacturer to produce it and might provide drawings and photographs, solicit orders, etc. Some folks write magazine articles with complete parts lists and instructions and photographs. In other cases, such as this one, he might show folks how to modify products from other scales to fit right in with an S scale layout. Not "pathetic" at all. I would prefer to call it "creative". And, to make things worse, I prefer to put the "model" back into model railroading. "Buying and running" are fine, but that is somewhat different than model railroading -- at least in my dictionary. Even more worse, we all knew what S scale offered -- and didn't offer -- when we joined up. So there should not be any surprises or complaints about what is not available. But that is just me and we all have our own individual ways of looking at these situations. Others are free to disagree. Cheers...Ed L. . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
