Bert, I think it is a bit of overkill to say ³You people² meaning me, et al, don¹t support the scale. I understand your intent and I am sure it wasn¹t malicious.
I can only speak for myself, but I bought two of the SHS Consolidateds, the Flyonel BB, the Flyonel C&A set (which I love), AM 3729 class 4-8-4 in ATSF and many other S offerings, and considering my operating budget, maybe a few too many :) Everything you say about demographics and the economy is of course correct. So we have a minority scale, and that to me begs the question, why pick a high-end project in brass that only appeals to a minority segment of that already minority scale? Seems to me it would be very cost effective to offer an undecorated version, unless of course there were too many as-delivered changes from road to road. But there again, Sunset could offer, at a price, additional, add-on detailing for whatever road required it. If it were me, and I rush to exclaim ³It¹s not² I would have put the SP version down the list for maybe a second or third run. Roy Inman From: Bert Cutler <[email protected]> Reply-To: S-Scale <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:57:08 +0000 To: S-Scale <[email protected]> Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} Re: "S" scale SP Pacifics from Sunset Gentleman, You people don't support what is already in existence so why should a manufacturer stick out his neck and make 50 to75 of an item when it probably won't sell.I think Smokey Mountain has proven that. There just isn't enough modelers for one railroad to support the manufacture of a specific item in the S scale groups. The economy has a lot to do with it, the age factor.,our money isn't going as far as it used to. More generics like USRA equipment A lot of railroads had that equipment and then there are people who want modern, which era do you ask. i don't know and is there enough modelers to make it go. So you ask highrailers to help, the majority havn't gotten past toy train stage. there are a few S scale modelers out there that know what they are doing. If you get a chance and go to Chattanooga and Jerry Holmes layout is open Go. It is one of the best S scale layouts i have seen. anywhere.My $2.00 worth Bert cutler [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/
