OK Dave,
I will bite on your premise for the moment. Which comes first - the products or the people? On one side you have to somehow find the interested people in the thousands more than there are currently. On the other side you have to find companies currently not making S jump in waving their checkbook for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Again - nothing short of a miracle. To be brutally honest the only way anything big in S happens is because it was done by an S Scaler. There has never been the margins of a real for profit business solely making S Scale. It is for the love of it first and hopefully can survive financially second. Further you almost have to BE an S Scaler to understand the uber fragmented market and make it. Years ago Microscale was blindly churning out decals and schemes for rolling stock that did not even exist in S. They ate it **big time**. So how are you are anyone else going to convince BLI, MTH, Atlas, or Bachmann to jump into the S pool - again given the current state of the economy? We can pitch emails back and forth all day long but the who and how is where the pen meets the checkbook. Nothing short of a miracle... I am not being a fatalist today - just pointing to the elephant in the room. I would much rather see list traffic of a finished fork lift from a difficult kit than how to promote the scale because it does not happen. The fork lift is proof of time productively spent. Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988 See my finished models at: <http://www.lanestrains.com/> http://www.lanestrains.com Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! Custom Train Parts Design <http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm> http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls ***Join the PRR T&HS*** The other members are not ALL like me! <http://www.prrths.com/> http://www.prrths.com <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! <http://www.prslhs.com/> http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
