Mike Caddell posted:LAIDOFFSICK,
They are being tempted by something not available from Brand M and L: more accurate and crisper details, improved drive train, prototypical appearance, accurate paint scheme/color, etc. It's why some people buy brass models. As was said, there is nothing that Sunset can import that Brand M and Brand L can't rush to market as a cheaper and less than satisfying alternative to a prototypical scale model. So the difference in the $$$ is a better model. Some will ante up for that, others won't. What the former group is hoping to capture is enough reservations (and people willing to follow through on those reservations) so that the model can be made. Obviously, there weren't enough of said persons stepping up at this time to make the SD40-2 run a reality....however, that doesn't preclude another announcement that would garner enough reservations to carry the run, but the question must first be asked before the community can respond.
Well then why were the Santa Fe Hudsons cancelled twice? now the SD40s? Obviously crisper details on models that are already out there just isn't enough when it comes to several hundred dollars more.
