goscrewyourselves
I'm the one
Um, can someone remind me what this thread was originally about .... ? Oh yeah, I remember now "Things Getting Out Of Hand..."
Cheers,
Cheers,
...The reason for most of these things is time. The model railroaders who used to scratch build steam locomotives are gone for the most part, replaced by folks with busy lives who want to get a layout up and running before they retire and move someplace where they don't have room for a layout.
So if you guys want to support this hobby, I say this... support your local hobby shop. Don't let them fizzle out because everyone is buying from the giants such as Walthers. These shops are almost always ran by older folk. Who's gonna fill their shoes as old George would say. I hope it's my kids.
Maybe I was misunderstood. My LHS has decent prices. I have yet to go in there wanting something and be turned away by the price because I am pretty familiar with what most things cost before I go in there. I could have bought my Micro Engineering rail online for a few dollars cheaper, but I would have had to pay shipping which would have evened out the prices. MB Klein has the rail for $38.39. I am not sure what the shipping would be on two packages. I assume a few bucks. So my order would have cost me somewhere between $80.00-$85.00 maybe? I paid I think $42.00 each, so $84.00. So they have good prices. I was merely commenting that the cost of things leaves me a bit disappointed.
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When I was a kid, AC-Gilbert "Erector sets" became a 'gateway' into my eventual interest in building better models as a teenager and it carried into adulthood after college.