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Brass Market Growing or shrinking?
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Railroading_Brit</i> <br /><br /> ... there's nothing like this over here. You can buy brass kits but until Bachmann brought out some O-scale equipment recently in brass there was no RTR brass available, .... A BLI steamer looks to be the equal of any brass one and has DCC and sound fitted, which you'd have to add to the brass. [/quote] <br /> <br />Actually, Matt Fulgerex (Swiss brass manufacturer) imported some 4mm "OO" scale Great Western RTR brass models in the late 60's or early 70's - a King class I think and a tank engine - maybe a 14xx, can't quite remember. It never caught on here because the market is so much smaller here in the UK than in the US, as a result the runs were much more limited in number and the prices per piece were so much higher. You are quite right though the craftsman kit market in the UK has largely taken the place of the RTR brass model in the US. <br /> <br />On your other point BLI are good, but not quite that good. A really good brass piece is still much more accurate and detailed than the BLI steamers - that's not to say they aren't better than some of the older brass pieces you see for sale on eBay for exorbitent prices. <br /> <br />The other thing about brass is that because they are run in very limited runs, providing they have pre orders for 10 or 20 they can afford to do some quite unusual locos which we will never see in mass market plastic - where the tooling costs for the injection moulds mean hundreds if not thousands of units to make a profit.
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