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i think someone's getting a little excited about the current changes in available kits in the marketplace. i observe that while things appear to change, everything stays the same. many years ago most kits were wood with added metal details and were accepted as "the standard." you could hear the screams as the great sacriledge hit the hobby. plastic kits were not accepted, were thought of as an inferior product to wood, junk that was going to ruin the hobby. oh, wailing and gnashing of teeth. now i read that RTR is the bane of the hoibby, will drive folks away, will be the end of everything as we know it. right! before we all panic, let us review just where the hobby is. you want kits? old timers refer to what you call kits as "shake the box" stuff. if you truely want to build, give up the idea of going to the basement and kicking a car together while you take in a TV show. you can spend exactly the same amount of money on freight cars in a month, just purchase something like a westerfield, sunshine, or funaro & camerlingo kit. it will not build in an evening, but you will be constructing a kit and have a masterpiece in the end. granted, it will take longer, much longer, to get a fleet of cars but so what? if the world ends next weekend it won't matter either way. if the world continues beyond next weekend, you will have something to keep you busy, involved in the hobby, and develop your craft type skills along the way. or, you can turn into a nut like me. make a kit from scratch so it comes apart to form individual pieces that can be used as masters. use the masters to make rubber molds. make your own cast resin car kits. if you do not like to put on all the small details, just include them on the master, stuff like ladders, grabs, even roofwalks. then you really do have a "shake the box" type kit. you can find ways to continue to build kits if you really want that to be part of your hobby. i urge you all to quit seeing the end of the hobby as you know it. adapt. change. like the romans used to say, "illigitimus y carborundum." hang tough, do not yield an inch. tom
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