We have just run out of cottages.
Everyone is now living in those oversize barns, with 10 dormers, and in all of
the far out burbs.
How do you come down from that and start a small business. You are big time.
I gave out over 600 big new house permits while zoning inspector.
It changed the nature of this small community. It's now full of executive
something or others, like everywhere else.
John Armstrong
----- Original Message -----
From: Roy Inman
To: S-Scale
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} FINAL UPDATE : Seaboard Round Roof Box Car
Take it from another self-employed: Business is tough right now. This is the
new norm. Don¹t know about the rest of you, but I have a very narrow set of
priorities in this era. Instead of spending X-number of dollars on S, I am
now spending <x number of dollars. In the best of times S, especially S
scale is a difficult sell, as we all know.
So, thanks to __________________whomever we want to blame, we are looking at
fewer cottage industries, fewer customers in the S scale arena for the
foreseeable future. Last time it was this bad it took a world war to help
pull us out. God forbid such a thing.
Roy
on 4/11/11 8:09 AM, Pieter Roos at [email protected] wrote:
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>
> I guess spring is "doom and gloom" season now. The Steam Era freight car
list
> has a similar thread to the effect that prototype modeling is doomed now
that
> Westerfield is retired and Sunshine may be planning to quit in the
foreseeable
> future. This is HO, with a a selection of models in the 100s of different
cars
> (if you are willing to build resin kits).
>
> Please keep in mind, this is not big-buck styrene injection molding, and any
> of us who are competent scratch builders can learn to make a mold to produce
> multiple models. Most of us probably don't want to start a for-profit
> business, but some form of exchange can develop, or very limited sales to
> recover material costs. Unlike the 1960's when AF when away and the most
that
> the majority of home manufactures could produce was bundles of sticks and a
> few stampings or pot metal castings.
>
> Pieter E. Roos
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