Thank God. Finally Michael Ostertag has spoken.
Now we can all rest easy tonight. Andre Ming ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 3:55 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} The State of S Scale 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 ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
