Hi Mike....
The explanation in your message below is excellent. We agree that it is good
advice for a S newbie.
However, the original message had none of this explanation and essentially said
(paraphrased) "a guy named Bill wrote an article in a magazine which no longer
exists and you should go look it up." Yeah, I left out a few words, but that
is the overall impression it made on me.
The expanded verbiage written below strikes me as being very helpful and
appropriate. It sure makes a lot more sense now.
Hopefully he will not get discouraged.
Take care....Ed L.
> Now lets give him an alternative.
>
> The long answer is that others who have worked in S scale were able to
> succeed in spite of the lack of those specifics components. What you may not
> realize is that Bill's build of the GP30 was very similar to the process of
> utilizing Cannon panels. Bill, utilizing styrene, made his own panels, cabs
> and so on - a little scribing and some pretty fancy knuckle busters (door
> latches) and he built the engine in a very similar method as the use of
> Cannon prefinished panels. It obviously took a little more time than
> purchasing the panels but the point that I was trying to make to Michael was
> simply that if you can assemble the Cannon panel you can take the next step
> and make you own panels. If you never read that series maybe you should take
> a moment and look at it.
>
> If the person is new to S scale I would always suggest that he should take a
> moment and explore what others have done and were successful at. It may
> inspire that person jump into the deep end of the pool and give scratch
> building a try - or it may deter him - either way he received a suggestion.
>
> Lastly, I'm pretty sure that if he doesn't have access to those magazines
> there are people on this list that might consider scanning them and sending
> to him if he was interested and made the request.
>
> Mike Lytle
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