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Sheldon, while I would not say Mike is on the retreat in the US market, his move into the German market is quite audacious. Germany is dominated by the likes of Roco/Fleischmann, Marklin, Trix at the "middle" level" and Brawa at the top end. Apparently the price level of up to $ 800 + for a high quality, high detail RTR plastic loco is attractive enough to risk a quite sizable investment. There seems to be sufficient buying power around in this country, but you will have to certainly count me out in that range. As you correctly state, the German market is more a RTR market, less a kit builder´s market and even less a scratchbuilding market. There is only one company offering loco kits, Weinert of Kirchweyhe near Bremen. Their kits are exquisite and you can produce museum quality locos from them, but this is just a tiny niche. DJH Engineering, formerly Model Loco, a quite successful manufacturer from The UK, failed completely in Germany, although their kits were competitively priced.
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