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I was just looking at the Walthers website and I noticed that they're announcing their 2005 Ref Books and they only show HO and N/Z scales. I wonder if they dropped the Large Scale book? The 2 problems that I had with it were that for most of the products, they just generically listed it as G-Scale with no indication whether it was 1:29, 1:24, etc. I'm sure for you vets, you might know that by the mfgr, but for us new guys, that wasn't so helpful. They were at a hobby show in my area recently and I gave them that feedback. The other problem, and this exists in all of their books is the price that they publish in the book. Its usually about 190% of what you see advertised in magazines for products. i.e. the Bachman Porter was around $140 in the Walther's catalog and goes for about $79. The 44 tonner showed around $300 where you can buy it for $170. My guess is that they inflate the price to give dealers more mark-up lattitude. i.e. when you buy it at the dealer for about 60% of the price in Walthers, you're supposed to say, "Gee, what a great bargain my hobby shop is giving me." I think it has the opposite effect. I've looked at items in Walthers and disregarded the hope of buying them because the price was soooooooo far out of my league that it was never going to work. Just my early morning ramblings, Dbl Stack
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