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[quote user="CGW121"] If I ASK for your opinion, then give it. If I have not asked you what you think then you should keep your mouth shut. To criticize unasked is an invitation to a rude response. If you see things that are in your eyes "wrong" keep your mouth shut. [/quote] I would say that I am the exact opposite. If you publish your work in a publication of some sort or another, you invite criticism.   Without people criticizing the oversized details of yeseteryear, we would not have highly accurate affordable detailed plastic models today.  I am a rivet counter (to a point, I dont think I have actually ever counted rivets).  Everyone is entitiled to an opinion.  If you dont like someones opinion, nothing says you have to act on it.  A simple "noted" response is more than adequate.  Nothing says you have to take the criticism personally.    And do you not want someone to point out derailment causing kinks, S-curves that are causing actual problems with your layout?  There is a whole section on this forum devoted to prototypical accuracy.  I strive to do the best I can.  If there is something Im doing incorrectly, I want to know about it.  One my biggest gripes is published photos of HO scale models proclaiming how real a scene looks.  In that very same photo is a bronze spring and a trip pin, and an out of scale coupler.   When I got back into the hobby in HO scale back in 2012, my first purchase was a Bachmann 2-6-0 DCC and sound.  I thought it sounded great and looked pretty good.  I even when to the extra step of repainting and decaling it for Boston and Maine.  I brought it to the model rr club I had just joined.  I discovered to my dismay that the locomotive actually was not a model of anything the B&M owned.  It was not even close (headlight out of position, piston valves vs slide valves, drive wheel spacing incorrect etc).  I looked into it further, almost every one of the railroad that the 2-6-0 was offered painted for had piston valves...conversely the 4-6-0 was the opposite.  It was offered with slide valves, prototypes had piston valves. [banghead] No the 4 wheel leading truck doesnt fit on the 2-6-0... Later on I purchased a P2K Heritage 2-8-4 undecorated (C&O model).  I decaled it for B&M in a road number and class after the highest number B&M 2-8-4.  I put TCS WOW sound and the largest speaker I could fit in it.  You can hear the locomotive running on the club modular layout @ Springfield during the show, standing 6ft away.  Its pretty amazing. By comparison the 2-6-0 is generic sounding and barely audible.  I might go for a larger speaker at some point.
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