Yes, the increasing age of our group worries all of us as to the future of our
hobby. I wonder whether the model airplane crowd--a group I know next to
nothing about--is experiencing a similar decline. I entered the modeling hobby
decades ago by purchasing and building balsa wood model airplanes. I recall
making such models as the Piper Cub, some variety of a Cessna, a P-47
Thunderbolt, a Gruman Hellcat, and then gradually I switched to Lionel, and
from there to S-scale.
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In those days, regardless of whether we were building model airplanes or model
trains, we had to build the stuff. Building model trains with Lionel? Well, I
started purchasing and building All-Nation box cars, and that step killed my
satisfaction with Lionel trains. Of course, high-school and college were years
of time out for school, cars, and girls, but I returned.
Whenever I go to a hobby shop, I notice that it does have some balsa wood model
airplane kits, but very few. Perhaps that branch of modeling suffers a similar
downward trend. As a high-school teacher, I find no teenage boys who are
interested in model airplanes or model railroads. The dominant interest seems
to be computers, computer games, and heaven knows what else.
Tom
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