--- In [email protected], "Bill Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> This isn't 1985. For $750.00 you are surely not going to get an S
> Scale Korean built brass steam engine now.
Something got derailed here. I didn't pick the $750 figure by
reminiscing about 1985. The $750 figure came from an earlier thread:
Bob McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We are looking at
> producing from a new material that will decrease the cost from brass,
> but give it more accurate detail and better rolling feature.
>
> What we are heading toward is producing USRA engines, 4-6-2 and 2-8-2
> for around $750.00 each. We are trying to put a program together of
> bringing out the detail parts to make complete engines and then
> mechanisms then Boilers then Cabs.
Let me try again. Bob McCarthy seems to be heading toward producing a
$750 locomotive, with more accurate detail and better rolling than
something(?). Unless he has some tremendous secret that is going to
blow away the industry, he is going to do that by producing a model
that is not of the quality of a $2000 locomotive. My question is,
would you rather the detail was as high as possible with an OK
mechanism, or that the mechanism was top quality with an OK level of
detail and accuracy?
My preference is for the mechanism to be of the highest quality. If
the locomotive runs very well, I could come up with $750. If it looks
great sitting on the shelf, I'm not interested.
By the way, where did the bizarre idea about what I make now relative
to what I made in 1985 get into this picture? My post had nothing to
do with the price of brass locomotives. I'm glad to see, though, that
having been misquoted, the same misquote gets reproduced 5 more times
by people quoting the quote. Maybe I'll run for a public office.
-Michael Eldridge
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