--- In [email protected], "Ed" <Loizeaux@...> wrote:
>
> > That's an interesting point. Anyone know how many truck modelers there are
> > compared to train modelers? <snip> these guys could build a boxcar for
> > about the same price as a tractor trailer rig? .....DaveBranum
>
> I think "collecting" die cast trucks is not the same hobby as
> "modeling/building" die cast trucks. Same analogy as "running" toy trains
> vs. "building/modeling" authentic scale models. Collectors far outnumber
> builders in any hobby. Collecting is easier to do with less frustration.
> With a different kind of emotional reward system as well.
>
> Ed Loizeaux
>
Let's look at it this way: WE are the benficiaries of the 1:64 model vehicle
collecting hobby.
The equivalent can't be said of our freinds in O scale. They have to
compromise with 1:50 or 1:43, true 1:48 scale vehicles are few and far
between...
Rich G(ajnak)
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