Tony Koester of MR and RMC has made the same comment about S and TT in recent years; yet the NKP Third Sub layout continues to progress in HO scale to date, nor did Linn Westcott ever build even a project layout in MR using S or TT scale.
It's amazing the amount of bandwidth we can all use debating the merits of a product which has not arrived yet, and might not (if he SD-40 of years gone by is an indication). If it does come with scale wheels as an option, that has to be a good thing for S scale. I am as unhappy as the next person that in S we have to accept trains that are far more compromised for toy train use than modelers in other scale deal with, yet the fact is that we do NOT have the market strength to punish Lionel for this design decision. I think it's pretty clear that if the scale version does not sell, Lionel will simply drop the scale option again. Any of us would have more leverage writing something like "I bought two of the U33s, I think they are great BUT I'd have bought more if the the model was more scale, with fixed pilots and blah blah blah" rather than simply slamming them that you will not buy the model because of the non-scale features. They can easily figure you would have found another reason not to buy it if that feature were different. This whole thing would be a problem if there were better, later U-boat models being preempted by the Lionel offering, but I don't hear any rumblings of such models. Pieter E. Roos --- On Mon, 10/17/11, David Heine <[email protected]> wrote: > > Linn was only stating an observation that S and TT embodied > most, if not all > the qualities of the popular scales available, and the > hobby may have taken > a different turn if either one had existed in any > noticeable quantity prior > to WWII. > > Of course, "G" scale hadn't appeared yet - that was a > province of the live > steamer set. > > Bob Nicholson ------------------------------------ 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/
