From: Alan Lambert Fort Worth, Texas
Tom, Thanks for sharing this. If they call this a "toy" they need to get out of "S" and get the rubber duckies out. If from what I saw you can put the boat in water turn the motor on and let it run to the next docking area to unload the trains. I think they did one fantastic job on all of the detail. Alan Lambert ________________________________ From: Tom Hawley <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 10:43 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} "They're all toys." ----- Original Message ----- From: shabbona_rr Whose going to take the bull by the horns and tell Brooks Stover that his layout is just a toy and not a scale model? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'll give you a better one. I've seen the HO scale model of the Solano Railcar Ferry ( http://cprr.org/Museum/Ephemera/Solano_Ferry_Model.html ), and I've heard Bill Rubarth describe the immense amount of research he and associates put into building it. I'd like to see one of these "they're all toys" yoyos look Mr Rubarth in the eye and tell him it's just a toy boat, and then start talking about the little boats he had in the bathtub when he was a child. Most of us in model railroading have model rolling stock & structures that we have modified & improved by studying photographs of other sources of prototype information, or, if not, we rely on reputable manufactures to have done that and got reasonably close. A three-dimensional model that attempts to accurately represent something in the real world is no more a "toy" than is a two-dimensional representation, a painting. Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
