Bill....I truly appreciate your philosophy, but what I really wanted was the rooster, not the cattle. Gotta read Lind's message and my response more carefully -- no mention of cattle. An S scale rooster, painted and crowing his red-tipped head off, would be a really neat thing for my farm scene. Gotta have some other animals around to keep the dairy cows from getting lonesone. Soooooooo......got any ideas on a rooster? Maybe some chickens to keep the rooster company. Richard's message was not clear as to whether these animals were made by Ertl or someone else. At least not clear to me. Call me dense...Ed L.
--- In [email protected], "Bill Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Years ago when Yahoo took over the groups from One List, I was learning > about and joining groups as I found them. I joined the Steam Era Freight > Cars list since I am much more of a freight car fan then passenger. It was > there that I witnessed obsessing and regurgitation of minutia like I had > NEVER seen before. Yes, some of the posts were helpful. Many members were > VERY knowledgeable about freight cars. I got some help when I asked. I have > not asked in a while though. BUT, compared to this group on a real bad hair > day, they were PROS at sometimes spending DAYS grinding on seemingly useless > data. > > One day the subject came up about how many cattle could fit in ____ stock > car. This went on for a while - no make that days! I completely lost it when > they started talking about how many "fattened cattle" would fit in ____ > stock car. I just happened to have gotten my first digital camera. I grabbed > an Ertl cow, took a photo, and posted a link to the photo. I asked the group > if it was a FATTENED S Scale cow or not. It was completely LOST on them. No > one replied. Since I was the S Scaler freak, they ignored my goof, but still > it was a viable question. Further, for modeling purposes why would anyone > NEED to KNOW that!?!?! > > I tried to get them to post photos of their recently completed models. I > started with my just completed H30a. All I got was chirping crickets - no > interest whatsoever. My H30a is still on the home page 3+ years later. I am > convinced all that gets made is email. I had to turn off the email, which > was abundant, because I could not take the days of answering obscure > questions, and some rather consistent and sometimes brutal shredding of new > (mostly HO) products that were only seen from 30 KB pre-release website > photos. I considered it to be chest beating and a defense as to why to NOT > buy something. > > So Ed, what does any of this have to do with you wanting good S Scale > livestock? Not much! (:->) I just say buy what you can when you see it. I am > not getting into modeling S Scale livestock too! The Ertl stuff is more then > good enough for me! I just put in "Ertl cattle" in eBay > http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll? from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=ertl+c > attle&category There are a few to choose from. > > Thank You, > Bill Lane ------------------------------------ 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/
