I've been reading a lot of the posts on here the past several days about where
we are and where we came from etc. I can't believe how narrow minded the
majority of the guys in here are. Not narrow gauge minded either. This is
2012 NOT 1962, 72, etc...! This argument that "good enough should be good
enough" is crap! This scale needs to begin to attract NEW modelers to it. If
you want S Scale to continue to be the good ole boys club that it's been for
the past 50 years than it will die! The AF guys need to begin to understand
that the future of any scale is in scale modeling. If it weren't for guys like
Jim King we wouldn't have any new stuff coming out right now. AM and SHS need
update their catalogs and start coming out with new models that reflect what is
wanted in the hobby NOW! Not from 40 years ago, or 20 years ago, but NOW!
I'm soon to be 42 years old and I am on the bottom of the age scale in S scale.
I am a SCALE MODELER NOT A TOY TRAIN COLLECTOR! If I am going to pay $80, 90
more for a car, then it better damn well be accurate right down to the last
bolt. If I am going to pay $300 or more for an engine, it better not have a
swinging pilot that I can "modify" to make it not do that, it better be exactly
the way the prototype is. "Good enough" isn't good enough anymore. This
argument about remembering where we came from, is crap too. Technology and
other modern advances, like laser cutting, have made it a lot easier to produce
models in scale and be more precise. You didn't have that stuff back then.
Back then you had to create and build what you wanted. However, with that
said, because of the pigion hole that S scale is in with manufacturers it's
still that way to a degree. Maybe not the the degree that it was 20 years ago
or more, but it's still there. The scale is viewed as a TOY! That's evedent
by Lionel's offerings in S. They all look like toys, not scale models. Enough
with the 6 axle crap too. SD60's and U33C's are not going to attract anyone to
the hobby. GP38-2's, GP40's, Switch engines etc. are what is needed. Things
that people can see every day right now. The SD70ACe is a joke. If you're
going to build something, do it right!
I have said it in the past. If this scale is to advance, it needs to do so in
SCALE NOT AF. Thanks Mr. Gilbert for making what you did, but I guess we
should all still be driving model A's or living in log homes with no running
water. The time do advance the scale is now! So come out from under whatever
rock you AF guys are under and see the bigger picture here.
Michael Ostertag
Green Bay, WI
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