Pieter, I guess I didn't across my entire message. Nearly everybody
bought Frank's little station because everybody needs a station for
their layout. Therefore you fill an area for a reasonable cost or you
store it for many years without a big investment. My little two story
building (sort of looks like the Warsaw on the old DrewCarey Show) fills
about the same area for roughly the same cost (of course, I created it
from stuff under the layout, but again not a big investment). But one
to think about spending 4 to 6 times that much for roughly the same
area. It seems to me what makes the grocery store a great building is
the brickwork and it's great 'neighborhood' look.
A lot as been said about those Finescale Miniature kits being traded
back and forth without ever breaking the box's seal (I think our equal
is the number of times the Jones & Laughin cars have been traded). Not
for me! And yes they are beyond funky and a little goes a long way!
Bob Werre
Pieter Roos wrote:
> Hi Bob;
>
> You are rather comparing apples and oranges here. The Lehigh Valley
> kit is a box of wood and card with some plans and instructions and a
> couple of white metal window castings. You get to fabricate all the
> parts yourself.
>
> . You bring into more question why someone buys one of the simpler
> laser cut kits like some of BTS, Banta or Bar Mills lower price
> buidlings more than the Grand River models. . It's still going to take
> a lot longer than the building you describe, with more fussy work.
> Barry's buildings use individual brick work rather than molded sheet,
> which produces a less uniform look.
>
> You talk about tieing up $400 dollars sitting under the table waiting
> for "someday". I bet a lot of S scalers have a locomotive or two and a
> half dozen car kits worth at least that much occupying the same space
> under the table. I do realize that it's easier to swap rolling stock
> off the layout than a large structure, and $400 IS a lot of money (I
> haven't been able to fund one myself, although I do have the grocery),
> easily in the same catagory as the craftsman kits by Finescale
> Miniatures, South River Model Works, etc. Middleton and Sons is no
> where near as funky as most of those buildings,
> time and money on detailed buildings.
>
> Possibly more to the point is that many comments point to what would
> be termed a "mature market", more established layouts without room for
> more structures or with an accumulation of older kits already on-hand
> than new layouts looking actively for more structures. That makes it
> hard for manufacturers to enter the market, and hard for new modelers
> to come to S since they can't buy the buildings they need new but need
> to search out old stock or estate sales.
>
> Pieter E. Roos
>
>
>
>
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