Re: glitching and investment

2004-08-23 Thread Geoff Spenceley
Thanks Vance, Well said! -and not clumsily!! I must admit that I love the fiddling despite my clumsility! If a new engine or kit performs perfectly, I feel cheated! Is that why I like Aster?? There I go! Geoff. Let us all try and be helpful in this hobby and not PICK, PICK!! >>

Re: glitching and investment

2004-08-23 Thread Vance Bass
> Let us all try and be helpful in this hobby and not PICK, PICK!! > It gets us nowhere ... Geoff, that rarely stops most of us... > ... and makes me madder than hell! ... but this will stop me in my tracks immediately! You're absolutely right that Aster have earned our highest respect for t

Re: glitching and investment

2004-08-23 Thread Geoff Spenceley
Vance, You can't convince me on that!! I think Aster are the best in the 1/32 scale. An alcohol or coal fired loco always needs a little more fiddling with the required fan and blower as opposed to butane fired locos. Why do some hobbyists always like to make cracks against Aster--they have done

Re: glitching and investment

2004-08-23 Thread Vance Bass
> I am convinced that cheap glitching is less annoying than expensive glitching. This is a pearl of wisdom. Yet the people who buy Asters seem to have to fiddle with them as much as (or more than?) the Accucraft owners to get a new locomotive running smoothly. Who got the value for their money,