Bob, I missed any posts about selling conifers. If you could send me some info, I might be able to send a little work you way for the layout at Union Station. Roy
on 4/11/11 2:10 PM, Bob Werre at [email protected] 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 > >> > John, >> > >> > I'm sorry about your project and the loss of your time and money >> > investment. As a small manufacturer, I can tell you there are going to >> > be disappoinments and setbacks. Ask any manufacturer, for that >> > manufacturer ask any manufacturer on this list. We've all had our >> > failures. That is why the successses feel so good. >> > >> > As for S scale dying, I don't think so, at least I can't see it in my >> > business. No, we are not setting the world on fire, but I don't think >> > anyone else is either. I think the great Jim Kindraka said " Scale >> > ain't supposed to be easy", or something like that. >> > S Scalers by and large are a hearty lot. With tens of millions >> > unemployed or underemployed, it makes sense that discretionary >> > spending drops, not to mention the hundreds of thousands that have >> > already lost their homes. The good news is many are turning inward and >> > revisiting stay at home hobbies. >> > >> > If you think your project is good, wait for a better time, or find >> > different people to work with. >> > >> > Keep the faith, put your head down, work a little harder or find a >> > smaller project to start with. You will succeed. Good luck. >> > >> > Ron Sebastian >> > Des Plaines >> > >> > --- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com> >> <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>, >> > "John Degnan" <Scaler164@...> wrote: >>> > > >>> > > For those of you who have been faithfully waiting on some news about >> > the SAL round roof box car project I started over two years ago... I >> > just got the final word last night from the manufacturer who was to >> > produce it for me... and that word is simply this : >>> > > >>> > > IT AIN'T EVER GONNA HAPPEN!!! >>> > > >>> > > A lot of things have led to this (including the piss-poor >> > economy)... but the main thing, I'm sure, is that out of the 88 model >> > sales that were promised (to ME) by modelers who initially showed an >> > interest in this model, only HALF of those sales ever (re)materialized >> > for the manufacturer after he took over the project. So the project >> > kept getting set back farther and farther until more sales materialized. >>> > > >>> > > So be it. Now, none of us who genuinely wanted one get to have one. >> > Not only that, I've wasted a load of money on this project and TWO >> > YEARS worth of my time! >>> > > >>> > > Thanks a lot, S scale! >>> > > >>> > > I guess I should probably give up on my Scale Gearbox Projects as >> > well... lest I waste even more time and money on this dieing scale... >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > John Degnan >>> > > Scaler164@... >>> > > Disgusted to the point of... (you really don't want to know) >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >>> > > >> > >> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ 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: [email protected] [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/
