From: Alan Lambert Lone Star Flyer Club Arlington, Texas Roy, That is a new one . Hiscale, makes me automatically think of Brooks and his magnificent layout. I have yet to see any closeup fine scale detail pictures from this list. My brother is helping someone by installing A digitrax decoder in aan engine that is super detailed with paint pealspots with rust and oil running from everywhere and faded letttering that you can hardly make out. That is scale needs to be. Perfect you said a mouth full. If you want perfect look at 1:1 . I dont think anything made today is perfect. Look at all of the recalls that have come up. Lionel is not perfect and may never be, but scale guys need to snail mail Lionel for them to listen. As stated before they DO NOT listen to this listabout what you want. Thanks, Alan
________________________________ From: Roy Inman <[email protected]> To: S-Scale <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2012 12:47 PM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} RE: The view from here Just a bit of perspective from my “reality:” 55 years in the news business has shown me the best of humanity and the worst. The internet reflects this also. It is easier to criticize in this medium than face to face for instance. I think that we would all be more polite and understanding in person. The “line” between S scale/hirail/hiscale is and has been blurring for years now, ever since the technology and cheap overseas manufacturing presented importers/distributors with the opportunity to offer models closer to prototype. As others have pointed out, when you get right down to it, the absolute fidelity to scale, like the absolute truth, Is pretty hard to attain. The best any of us can do, IMHO, is to STRIVE towards the ideal. We will never fully create perfect in this life. I stick with the list in spite of the occasional rants that we all sometimes get sucked into because 99% of the time I pick up really good and useful information relating to S. I see the squabbles as those of sort of an extended family. At the end of the day we are all related by our common interest in things S. Not saying we ARE children, but just as bickering three-year-olds fight one minute and then are all smiles and playing the next, threads all run their course and in a few hours or days, then all is back to normal. What the heck, it ain’t brain surgery. It’s just trains, guys :) With cheer :) Roy Inman
