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Guys, we here in Germany always looked up to you Americans, as you always seemed to be able to "build" so much better than we did. On the otherhand it is just a fact that injection-molded styrene kits (I'm talking about buildings, vehicles and figures here) traditionally came from our neck of the woods since the early sixties (Faller, Vollmer, Kibri, Preiser, Wiking,....) and you have been using them freely - and were welcome, too. Talking about locos and rolling stock, kits have been phased out around here about 1968 and never been back on a large scale since. "Building" stuff, from scratch or challenging kits, never caught on much here, there are one or two manufacturers of fine-scale brass kits left. We have been taking RTR for granted for so long that now we start to complain about the out-of-reach prices of superdetailed locos for $ 400, and what have we been craving for years and years ? Detail , to scale and everything!! I am trying to say: Don't worry about RTR - if it is on the way, there is just no stopping it. Just do your most to patronize the manufacturers of kits, if they are still active on the market and let them know their products are of value to you. In the meantime, others may buy RTR, and theres nothing you can do - besides stand your ground and don't whine around but keep scratchbuilding and kitbashing. Where else would we go then and look for "master model builders"? Happy New Year and may your rails always shine brightly Martin
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