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Reply to "We have lost more than just the LHS as a source for Trains."

It seems that in this hobby for the past few decades we've moved to all RTR  models.  I'm not complaining about the move but it makes me think that most modelers don't want to "get their hands dirty. "When I started this hobby I was also in HO  scale and the Athearn blue box was a way for me to build up my collection.  All I had to do was get out a screwdriver and put on the trucks,  add a drop of glue for the brake wheel and then drop the body on the frame.  How hard is that today? I've heard manufacturers complain that an rtr car has better quality control and there's no loss of parts in the kit box. Well,  IKEA  has been selling kits for 60+ years and nobody has complained about a lack of parts.

I'm in my late 60s and am learning how to use an airbrush for the first time.  I've never really picked up a paintbrush before except to slap paint on the walls of my house. 

If you're happy with rtr,  fine.  But for a group of us modelers we take a little more pride in saying "I built or modified that".

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