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Walther's position on Kit vs Ready To Run freight & passenger cars.
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Obviously, I model N scale and have had to deal with RTR for a very long time. Kits for rolling stock are virtually non-existant. I see three problems with the supply now. First, the tendency to produce limited edition items exclusively ( in the case of MicroTrains items this isn't as important now as we are seeing reissues with different road numbers and this may even be good). Second, the lack of undecorated items. And, third, many of the RTR items are built in such a way as to be virtually impossible to take apart to modify. Add to this the prices and it really slows down the industry. I used to buy 4 or five Microtains cars a month. Now I have more income to spend but find my self buying 4 or 5 cars a year. Now the price of the cars has gone up 5 to 6 times what it was but the result of looking at that price makes me really consider whether I "need" that car rather than whether I "want" it and as a result I only spend about half what I used to. <br /> <br />What I do find is that I now spend a lot more time scratch building and learning core modeling skills which is making my finally developing layout more unique and is really making me a better modeler. But it is definately not helping the industry.
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