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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by dkelly One thing to think about is the "play value" of what you buy. I think this was discussed years ago in one of the magazines. Buy a BLI model for $400. Looks great. Runs great. Put in on the layout. Now your ready for another one so the railroad gets a "family" look. Total time between purchase and readiness to get another one. A couple of days (or even hours). Now take a Bowser kit for the same engine. Get the kit, the superdetail parts, a sound decoder and paint. Assemble the engine, put on the detail parts, tweak its running, paint it, install decoder and sound. Total price about the same. It's finished - looks good, runs good. Ready for another one so the railroad gets a "family" look. Total time between purchase and readiness to get another one? Maybe a month or two. In either case the cost for that particular addition to the layout was the same. What is different is the time needed to add that piece to the layout and then get the urge to get something else. One way is a instant gratification, and you want to satisfy again. The other takes longer - streching the dollar investment over much more time. Not that any one way is better than the other. Both RTR and kits have their place in this hobby and if one or the other makes someone happy - then there's nothing wrong with it. Just a thought on why maybe the hobby seems to be getting expensive. [/quote] My God! Your right! But kits are terribly expensive now too.
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