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Because it's a lot less "comfortable" to fall asleep on your keyboard, than on the couch, reading the printed version. -- I checked out Nixon Enterprises per your suggestion and although I appreciate your lead, frankly their prices for at least the items I'd be interested in, are just as wacky as the prices in Walthers, which we all know (and some of us admit) are often way over what you can get the same item for elsewhere. It's easy to locate far more affordable sources for most HO motive power & rolling stock, and for some structures. Try that for smaller, more specialized items like vehicles and you're looking at absurdly high prices for little, teany, tiny, uncomplicated, easy to injection mold, non-powered, static display model cars and trucks. . . What's wrong w/ discussing the relative value/cost of an important component part of our hobby - vehicles help define an era and set the 'mood' for a scene (all trucks - must be an industrial area; all rundown early Ford sedans and pickups - could be Depression era or just depressed neighborhood or town; a shiny new Cadillac and you've found the 'boss man' or local robber baron; no vehicles-must be deserted (or model railroader can't afford any) ' circus-float ' looking plastic cars w/out any detail - must be a modeler who's given up locating any better ones or can't afford to. . . There still is a need and ready-to -buy market for low cost, decent HO vehicles of American prototypes in all eras ( my bias is pre-and post war WW II ). We harped for years about having affordable steam and diesel alternative to brass that were accurate, not necessarily generic models, well detailed and good runners. Some manufacturers paid attention, stepped up and gave us more than we could have possibly dreamed of while looking at a Walthers' catalog 10 or 15 years ago. Harping and carping is good!. What about a 'poll' asking question(s) like - What should a scale car or truck cost? What era is needed? What level of detail do you expect ? What material will you buy (metal, plastic, resin, etc.) ? RTR or kit ? and, How many would you buy (over the next 12 months) ? Then, we email/snail mail the results to every model railroading publication, every scale vehicle publication, and most every potential model maker including Matell, AMT/ERTL, Revell Monogram, Life-Like, Bachmann, and others. Or we just harp and carp, and cope and hope forever. Then, if we get lucky, we can complain that the flood of HO vehicles are coming from China!
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