Don - no offense intended and I'm not trying to single you out but your statement strikes a chord with me as one I commonly hear and perfectly summarizes the current state of S. The "If you had been there when..." mentality, I believe, is what's holding us back. Too many, too often, are willing to accept anything in S just because it is... in S. They recite the old "If you had been there in the 60's", "If you had been there in the 70's", "If you had been there when Ron first introduced the AM boxcar" mantras. Well, we're not in the 50's, 60's or 70's. That AM stuff was decades ago. We can expect and demand better NOW. Why dwell on past lean times? When we dwell in the past we keep ourselves in the past. This is now. S scale is a major scale with outstanding modelers hungry for new products equal or better in quality to HO, N or Z. I understand where we came from and the need, at the time, for the whole "United" thing and all but that's years ago. Let's all start modeling like it's 2012.
Chris Borgmeyer Re: New American Flyer S Scale models Posted by: "Don Thompson" [email protected] dont08901 Sat Mar 3, 2012 3:18 am (PST) ... I think if you had modeled S Scale with us in the 70's, when our S Scale options were wooden reefer kits and converted flyer freight cars, you would have a different perspective on the importance of these latest developments by big "L". Don
