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We're here, just in smaller numbers. I recently was at my LHS getting some windows for a cardstock(!) freight terminal and a dummy F7A for a camera project, and the owner remarked "Modelers? We still get those?" while he cast me a wink and a grin. The explosion of high quality RTR offerings has tempted many a kitbasher and scratchbuilder. I'll freely admit to picking up an Athearn yellow box caboose last month (one of 4 RTRs in my collection), and I haven't even thought about superdetailing a locomotive since my Bowser K-11. The threshold for me has shifted some, now that work consumes a majority of my time and energy. I have models half built and unpainted, waiting for that elusive weekend when I can devote 16 hours to the trains. I'm proud that all my structures are either kits or scratches, and that there is currently a bag of parts for a brass water spout for the eventual steam maintaince terminal on the modules. I have come to a balance I think...I don't handmake parts that I can get from the little bags on the wall at the LHS, and Plastruct is my friend for shapes, but I'll never touch an RTR building and I still weather all my own rolling stock. My $0.02 -dave
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