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jschuknecht, good point about the details. I received the E8/9 I bought from eBay, and when I opened it I thought, "Wow, what a handsome little machine!" So I set it up for a few loops around my poor little EZtrack loop (hopefully in a couple of weeks I'll have a real bench constructed). Looked good (or as good as it could look going around 9" curves). Then I took the picture: [img]http://pages.sbcglobal.net/troub/ice8.jpg[/img] I set the picture as my desktop wallpaper at work, and put the locos (A and B units) away in their boxes until I get a proper layout to run them on. Staring at this picture all day, I thought "That loco really could use some detailing. Real handgrabs instead of the plastic ridges, those class light 'bumps' look awful, and there are missing handgrabs that could be added." I thought this, looked up photos, and started taking inventory of various things to improve or add. Then I got home, took the engine out of the box, and it hit me again just how tiny a lot of those things would be to deal with. Ridiculously small, and I would barely even see the difference when just looking at the thing. So I decided I wouldn't bother with it, at least for now. The only downside would be that the lack of detail may be apparent in any photographs I take. So, if photography is your thing, the small size and difficulty of superdetailing would be a major con. If you just like operations, or trainwatching, you might find it refreshing that you don't have to worry about every detail in order to have something that looks good when you're using it.
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