--- In [email protected], "Bill Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> people are looking at both websites
> frequently, probably mostly looking for new stuff submitted by SOMEBODY
> ELSE. That is the key problem with the website approach. Many can submit
> material but in reality it is only one person to do the actual
website work.
> That gets old quickly. Yes people do STOP looking at websites that
do not
> get updated. I surely will not give my passwords to access my host
account
> to anyone.
How about someone with the technical know how setting up an S
scale Wiki? I find them very usefull for getting basic info about
subjects and it might be a good way to spread out the work load for
the webmaster?
Personally I don't need another website, I find all the info I
need right here and I like our mutual help approach but I do think S
scale needs to have a presence in the greater model railroading scene.
Lots of modelers don't know that S is alive and semi well and don't
realize the advantage of 1:64 scale when it comes to building a layout.
I'd like to see S as a regular part of the mainstream magazines,
I'd like to see the big guns of the hobby modeling in S scale instead
of HO all the time, an article like Lance Mindheim's recent Miami
industrial layout could have been done in S scale just as easily as HO
scale and could have brought new respect to S. I'd like to see S scale
in the train stores so that newcomers are not forced to choose between
O, HO, or N scales. Once they enter a scale it's harder to change
their path, better to get them right from the start.
We also need better pricing so we can offer a kid on a limited
budget a chance to start out in S scale. A good quality Atlas PS2
hopper in N scale costs $10.95, In HO it's $13.95, and in O scale it's
$42.95. So S needs one for about $25 to fit into the pricing
structure. If an S scale PS2 costs $39.95 then they think "why not get
the O scale for $3 more". When a kid asks me how to graffiti a hopper
I can show them an S version but I must tell them to buy an HO car to
experiment with cause there is no S available anywhere near here and
if there was it would be too expensive for them anyway.
Volume sales could make it happen so the wiki,and the magazine
articles, etc. could be important first steps....dave
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