I see that I sort of misstated. My point was quantity, not quality. The (few) S scale layouts that I see in magazines are considerably outside my envelope to create. And I am only judging quantity by what I see or don¹t see in these parts. Kansas City has the nation¹s second-largest rail terminal still standing, prototype freight traffic is second only to Chicago and we have bunches of model train enthusiasts, mostly in other scales. From what I have seen up close and personal, the ratio of train fans here to S scale layouts is not what one might expect, given our numbers and 1:1 activity.
But precious little in the way of honest-to-goodness S scale layouts. Extrapolate this out to the country at large and the result may be different. Photographs and good story angles don¹t just come out of thin air. Somebody has to come up with a concept, write about it in an engaging, informative and literate manner, and somehow get it shot with quality. Roy, whose S scale layout is still mostly in his alleged mind, Inman :) From: richgajnak <[email protected]> Reply-To: S-Scale <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:53:11 +0000 To: S-Scale <[email protected]> Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Kudos to Roger Nulton Oh, I don't know... If you take a look at the photo below Roger's in the August MR, it's pretty darn uninspired, if not sloppy. The Kato N Scale Mikado is straight from the box and doesn't even have it's handrails installed. I know pretty much all the guys here can do better than that with what they got. Rich G(ajnak) --- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com> , "Andre Ming" <laming@...> wrote: > > Re: {S-Scale List} Kudos to Roger NultonRoy Inman said: > > > I think that THE problem of not much S content in MR is that there just aren't that > > many S scale layouts of a certain level of quality to feature. Or there aren't that > > many, period, of any level of quality. > > I would think that my stagnated layout is this category. :-) > > i.e. A lacking level of quality. > > Andre Ming > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Roy Inman > To: S-Scale > Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 10:59 AM > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Kudos to Roger Nulton > > > > > In the 1.8 million population metro area known as Grater Kansas City I know of maybe two or three. Lots of Flyer layouts. But due to business pressures I don't get around much any more so I am out of the loop. > Roy > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > From: Roger Nulton <roger.nulton@...> > Reply-To: S-Scale <[email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com> > > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:02:56 -0700 > To: S-Scale <[email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com> > > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Kudos to Roger Nulton > > > > > > > Thanks, John. Actually, MR will publish good modeling in any scale. The difficulty is that they are very particular about the quality of the photos, but that's why I enjoy their magazine so much. They are not so fussy about "Trackside Photos". Still, I submitted this one last July, so plan on a long wait! > > Roger > > From: John Albee <mailto:johnalbee03@...> > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 3:38 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Kudos to Roger Nulton > > > Be still my heart! As far as I knew, MR didn't know S scale existed! > Congrats Roger! > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 29, 2012, at 4:56 PM, Paul Schilling <Paul4Schil@...> wrote: > > > > > > > The August 2012 Model Railroader features a photo of Rogers's beautiful S scale layout on p. 74! > > > > > > > = >
