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Philosophy Friday -- Scratchbuilt versus RTR... :-)
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<p>In my very humble opinion, it is certainly not an either/or question. Not all of us have the ability to handlay our track, scratchbuild our locos and rolling stock, detail them with selfmade castings, scratchbuild all our structures and make our trees ourselves and paint our own backdrop, just to top it off.</p><p>I have yet to see the layout where every single item has been build and not bought R-T-R or assembled. </p><p>Should we exclude someone from the hobby, because he does not have the time or the dexterity for scratchbuilding?Spare me the answer!<br></p><p>Here in Germany, R-T-R is much more wide-spread and the need to scratchbuild is far less, as the choice of locos is much bigger than in the US. The standardization efforts of the prototype makes it much easier to supply a full range of locos, with only very few gaps left to be covered by a number of smaller businesses offering highly detailed kits. So I guess, anybody modeling German prototype is just one lucky a guy.</p><p>I´ll stick with US prototype and I am happy that there are at least some locos and cars of my favorite road available in the market, so I don´t have to scratchbuild them, which I am not so good in - for the lack of the tools I would need to have!<br></p><p>After all, our common hobby leaves so much room for everybody to enjoy it! <br></p>
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