04-05-2010, 10:41 AM
I've been away from the board for a couple of days, and returned to find this thread has picked up 3 pages since I looked at it last. I'm mystified as to why someone would decide that what others model would be something they don't like about the hobby? I can see where some might not like that the hobby manufacturers build models of what most modelers want to model, but perhaps not what an individual wants. On the other hand for the manufacturers, it is a business not a hobby, and they must build what will appeal to the most people to make a profit. I might like to see an accurate model of an obscure prototype from 1880, but if that is not the interest of most of the modeling public, the demand would be such that the manufacturer of such a product would either lose money or need to charge an outrageous price or both. I model what I'm interested in, if someone else doesn't like what I've built, fine I didn't build it for someone else.