I have to go along with Bob and Ron. No income for 2 years really hurts
the old train budget and I have to be very selective in what I want.
Also, while I am not a purist I am modeling EBT and the interchange at
Mount Union so modern stuff doesn't fit in at all, nor do Midwest or
western roads other than an occasional transfer car.
When things pick up and I get back to full time work the train budget
will improve dramatically but until then I work on the unbuilt kits I
have accumulated over the years when I didn't have a decent place to
build them.
Carey
Carey Probst
Member, M.I.T. Educational Council
S Scale, Sn3 and S High Rail/AF
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On 4/11/2011 3:10 PM, Bob Werre wrote:
>
> I can pretty much back up what Ron is saying. Like Roy Inman, we're
> vastly underemployed photographers in a business that has seen most of
> our markets dissolve never to return. I once paid for my nearly all my
> modeling by photographing product for our manufacturers often doing a
> trade. Since that business has gone South, I build what I have under
> the layout, since I can't spend what I don't have. With the exception
> of Red Caboose most of my work has been done for S scale manufacturers
> and the money was pretty much sent back into the S market.
>
> I've also become a manufacturer of conifer trees and thus far haven't
> had anybody on this list purchase any, while we just sent out product
> via a mail-order today. A local hobby shop is selling my product via
> direct sales, so that keeps me in paint, couplers and magazines. My
> wife purchased a single table at a fairly large train show some months
> back. She made one sale for $30 which made up for the table at $30.
> Later we made considerably more at a smaller show, but new brass still
> isn't in the cards.
>
> None of us really knows if the entire hobby is dying or whether we're
> just waiting for the price of oil to be de-speculated, housing to lived
> in again and the flowers to grow, but I'm still modeling as much as I can.
>
> Bob Werre
> BobWphoto.com
>
>
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