Hello Jerry and Listers. On Fri, 8 Dec 2000 13:30:27 -0500, you wrote: >All this gauge/scale stuff gets pretty boring. Simple soultion. Don't read the posts if you find them boring. > > It's been discussed ad nauseum everywhere on the net, let's try to keep it >off this one spot-please! It was originally raised here because some mainline live steamers pointed out the lack of available models to pull behind their 1:32 locos. This situation has arisen mainly because one traditional source of scale rolling stock, the plastic RTR market, is in this case a non source. As such it was perfectly legitimate to raise the need for such models. > >Everyone has his/her opinion and I don't think anyone has ever changed >anyone else's mind. I just like to have fun with it and not get emotional >about personal preferences that one may have(or not, in my case) about >scales/gauges/rivit counting. No one who would like to have 1:32 scale models available is trying to change the minds of individual modelers. Rather we are trying to point out that IF 1:32 models were being produced then a ready market for them would exist among the 1:32 live steam fraternity and would greatly assist the conversion of modelers from the smaller scales to large scale (plastic even) RTR LS. Not all enthusiasts of scale models are necessarily rivet counters. As long as the proportions were correct the detail level could be left up to the modelers. No one is saying that anyone would be forced to abandon their chosen scales. That is unless of course the current 1:29 manufacturers decided to get with accuracy and chose to abandon wrong scale toys in favour of scale models toys. > >humbly Even more humbly and with best wishes, Tony Walsham. Remote Control Systems. P.O. Box 1118 Bayswater, Vic 3153 Australia. www.rcs-rc.com Tel - North America: 1 800 490 6945 Tel - Elsewhere: ++ 613 9762 7785 > >Jerry > >
