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Walther's position on Kit vs Ready To Run freight & passenger cars.
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I am an old fart and truly enjoy the current squabble over kits or RTR. In the dark ages, just after we were kicked out of the Garden of Eden, we had real kits. Little boxes with lots of wood, a few nails, some more or less pre-painted sides, some staples to insert as grab irons. There was cutting, drilling, fitting, sometimes soldering, and two or three evenings later, voila, the finished product. And the finished product resembled nothing specific. The end product was generic, you identified the road it came from by using the appropriate decals. Folks screamed when plastic kits hit the market. Model railroading was over. Plastic was junk. Today the attitude is much different. The trend away from mass produced kits? No real loss. The only difference between Athearn's 40 boxcar kits was the color of the paint and the, dare I say it, decals. Hmmmmm. The really high end stuff now is railroad specific in detail as well as decals. So it comes RTR, so what? You want an equivalent kit? Sunshine, Funaro and Camerlingo, Westerfield and others product some magnificent kits that are ultra high zoot, correct down to the size of the rivet heads. I do not see a loss to model railroading, I see a new dawn, a time of true fidelity to prototype, a time of super-size selection. I do not understand the doom and gloom I read. These are the very best of times, truly the golden age of model railroading as far as kits and supplies are concerned. What a great hobby, what a great time to be in the hobby. <br /> <br />Tom
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