--- In [email protected], "raisinone" <raisinone@...> wrote:
> Historically brass runs of "Christine" and Schnabel cars have sold >out
> rapidly, hardly "typical" models.
Hi Jim, I'm sure some heritage locos will sell too but a run of brass cars is
not the same thing as a product line designed for the average modeler. Athearn
probably sold more plastic boxcars in a day than the average number of cars in
a whole brass run. for a scale to thrive it has to have product constantly
available and not on order or sold out. Newcomers to S need to be able to buy
common items from stock and not be told too bad you weren't here last year or 5
years ago when they made that. I don't see how we can expect to attract new
modelers when we make it so difficult to get into the scale.I've been debating
whether I should build my new layout in S or just de-compress the design and
build it in HO due to equipment availability, so I can imagine how a newcomer
can feel about it when I've already got a lot of S stuff and it still seems
hard to me. It's depressing when you make a list of things you want for an S
scale layout and find they are available cheap and in quantity on ebay in HO
scale yet they have not been made in S yet and they may never be.
Maybe MTH and Lionel will fix the problem but if they just cater to the high
rail segment of S they won't help much. American models and SHS did a good job
getting the ball rolling but they lacked the deep pockets to keep the motion
sustained.How long has it been since AM has made a new model? I see the same
offerings now that I saw when I first looked at S scale many years ago while HO
has added a complete new generation of models every couple of
years....DaveBranum
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