From: Alan Lambert Fort worth, Texas Pieter, i agree with you. Lionel and MTH coming out with the SD-70 will open a new front for more modern rolling stock kits that we will need. Will Jim be able to keep with the flow. too many kits are geared toward the steam era. Nobody likes over stock. Alan Lambert
________________________________ From: Pieter Roos <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 11:55 AM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Scale wheels on SMMW kits Alan; AFAIK, Jim makes as many kits as he has orders for, maybe a few more. No hard-and-fast limitation (except a minimum). If you are arguing that he should make additional stock for someone who comes along later, you are asking him to pay money now to make and store things that MAYBE will have a market in - how many months? Several dealers to stock his kits, and can probably supply a few stragglers or new comers to the scale. Most SMMW kits are listed on a possible re-order page, and Jim will make another run if enough orders accumulate. That's about as much as you can ask of a small business. Even the big companies make defined runs of product; the hobby shop probably can't supply a new Bachmann or Atlas locomotive released three years ago. Lionel can't sell you a new U.S.R.A. Mikado from an early run either. Pieter E. Roos --- On Fri, 10/26/12, Alan Lambert <[email protected]> wrote: >From: Alan Lambert <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Scale wheels on SMMW kits >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Date: Friday, October 26, 2012, 10:35 AM > > > >From: Alan Lambert > Fort Worth, Texas > >That will work for me, just add more modern rolling stock to your list and add >more quanity. There are more than 100 people that like your kits and Making >only 100 of a certain car sends out a big ? mark to some people. Me included. >I'm more like Brooks Stover, Ihave highrail wheels and Scale couplers. > Alan Lambert > >________________________________ > From: SMMW <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 9:18 AM >Subject: {S-Scale List} Scale wheels on SMMW kits > > >To Alan Lambert: > >I don’t need to “realize” anything re: hi-rail wheelsets. I’ve always focused >my kits toward the scale modeler, which includes detailed draft gear and >underframe. If the purchaser wants to add hi-rail wheels and oversize >couplers, that’s his choice but one that will likely result in some of that >detail being removed to make room. I’m not getting into the debate of scale >vs. hi-rail operators; it is what it is. All I can say is that my past, >present and future offerings will cater to the detail-conscious modeler >because that’s my target market and compromising that level of detail is not >an option for me. > >Jim King >President, Smoky Mountain Model Works, Inc. >Ph. (828) 777-5619 >www.smokymountainmodelworks.com > >Trainmaster, Craggy Mountain Line RR >www.craggymountainline.com
