Simon, You're a welcomed voice of reason. Ed Kozlowsky Sanford, Maine sscale.org
>________________________________ >From: Simon <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 8:33 AM >Subject: {S-Scale List} Quo vadis? > > >I have been on this list before, but re-joined a couple of months ago. I think >that is usually long enough to get the flavour of things, but in this case, I >really hope it isn't. > >Why, you may ask? Well, I suspect you won't, because it should be fairly >obvious looking at some recent themes. > >Guys, S scale is a small interest (even smaller over here in the UK!) and we >cannot afford to fall out with each other over how MTH might do something (not >have already done) or hi-rail versus scale versus finescale and drive >manufacturers away. The simplest message to them is, "If you make sure that >you have scale and proportion right, then the scale/finescale S modellers will >also buy your models, so you will increase your sales." Nothing else will >ultimately matter to a manufacturer engaged in mass-production. If they fit >larger flanges, and either smaller wheels or jack the body up, I can deal with >that. Likewise, if the pilot and couplers are truck-mounted rather than >body-mounted, it is not a problem as I can deal with that, too. Just so long >as the rest of it is right, I am happy, and will buy if it suits my >era/locale: I am a modeller, and prepared to make and amend things. > >For those catering for the even smaller sub-group of (fine)scale modellers, >different objectives apply, but we don't want to upset them, either: they may >increase their sales of high-quality craftsman kits by advertising to the AF >end of the market, too. > >The S Scale Model Railway Society in the UK states in its constitution that it >exists to promote railway modelling to 1:64 scale. To be a member of it, you >don't have to model in S scale, or indeed do any modelling, just have an >interest in the scale. > >Can we not do the same, and if we disagree, do so gently without falling out? > >For pity's sake, at the end of the day, for most of us it is a hobby, and is >supposed to be fun... > >Simon Dunkley. > >
