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How we wax poetic. The simple theme is that there are no cheap BBs out there. The days of the $3.25 shake the box rolling stock are gone, but we cannot let go. RTR is the obvious target for the disappointment being that they are what is available plus $15.00. What is, is. Sure we would like dollar a gallon gasoline, a bigger SUV in the driveway, and an E-Bay auction win of a mint condition brass cab forward for $50.00. Were it was so. It is time to move on with the realities of todays market place. RTR would gather dust on the merchants shelves if someone was not buying them. And the manufacturers would be rushing kits to the local hobby shop if there was money to be made and buyers to provide that money. Decades before I became involved with the hobby, modellers were cutting up tin cans for scratch building materials, and building some interesting models and layouts. Relatively they had no more time or money than we have today, despite the rumors that the winters were milder and the summers cooler. So why don't we build more? Are we less bright than our predicessors, or just lazy, lulled by cheap Wally World pricing into thinking that it is cheaper to buy a new computer because your kid unplugged the power cord for some other use, and the fuse in the power supply blew when the cord got plugged back in. Do we go in search of the fuse, or run out a get a new one. Hey I got it "sale" for $599.99 at XYZ. Who said a fool and our money are soon parted? What was the "golden rule", they who have the gold, rule. "Our world" keeps changing with events pushing those changes into an increasingly rapid series of changes. We need to wake up to the changes. This morning the military advises the president that we need a coordinated national "search and rescue plan" and we are pleased that someone has a brilliant suggestion like this one. The same people who sent fighter aircraft out to sea when the nation was under attack by aircraft crashing into buildings. Why does it take four years to finally "get" the Vision, that we need to prepare for a changing world and hope that someone in China or India don't go for a tripple or quad major to out do us, again. So if we are to accomplish what we want in our modeling goals, less bemoaning of what is no more, and more moving forward with what is possible, even if it is RTR. Change is what we have, so we need to embrace change . Will
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