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<p>[quote user="Tinplate Toddler"]</p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">kasskaboose</div> <div class="quote-content">I'd also welcome places to get inexpensive 1:87 vehicles</div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>We ask for more and more detail on our engines and rolling stock and are prepared to give an arm and a leg for that, but look for inexpensive or cheap vehicles to populate our layouts.</p> <p>I have seen so many close-up photos of beautifully made, realistic looking layouts being spoiled by cheap looking vehicles.</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>Lesser detailed vehicles aren't so bad as they can be used to fill parking lots, parked in a garage, in an autorack, or off in the background. To me what really breaks a layout is seeing cars that are ridiculously out of date. Now your average layout visitor might not know a troop sleeper from an RPO and probably thinks a track warrant is something a police officer uses to arrest hobos, but they know a vehicle from the present doesn't belong on a layout set in the 50s. Yeah I know "Rule Number One." But don't go gettin' a case of the boo-hooeys if visitors don't understand what your layout is supposed to be about.</p>
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