Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... If nore HOers come over to N Scale...the prices of N scale stuff would at least double...due to 'supply and demand.' Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hboy:
My Reason Given that I can't see the detail on HO, I am totally happy with N. If it was all about details HOers would be doing O or G. Conclusion? HO is a compromise.
But that's assuming that the supply level remains the same. That would definitely change with an influx of new N-scalers.
And so it was with me, years ago, when I looked at my S scale, American Flyer, train equipment and the layout I couldn't put up...no room in the inn. HO scale, I could find a place for and the equipment was cheaper to buy. MUCH CHEAPER...back when. "HO is a compromise" said Grey One. Right on! Today, it's N scale for darn near the same reasons. One exception the newbies in manufacturing are pricing me out of the market. True!:angry:D@mm them!
All scales are a compromise since we can't build 1:1. Don't be silly. Also, I got out of N, because it was too small to see anything and for me to work comfortably in while being too big to fit in the scenery at realistic scale. For that, Z is the real deal. All you N scale guys just like unrealistic high riding body mount couplers and middling in betweeness. Go Z or go home.
Say what? LOL Yes, everything less then the real deal is indeed a compromise. Hell, I couldn't even find Z to put it on the tracks. Having a rough enough time with N Scale. N Scale, Not for sissy's.
Using this same conclusion, it would also make anything larger than N an ever increasing scenic impossibility. HO would be far less believable, and O would be...yikes.
I wish there were more n scalers. I'd love to join a club with a pemanent layout in central NJ Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk
Marty, Check out http://www.tmrci.com/ , they have a medium size N Scale layout and a huge HO layout. They are just off of the GSP and Rte 22
Well, apparently many in HO believe N scale's "Market can't be as big as HO" and that we are still "N gaugers." It's not "N Gauge" it's N scale, If the market is not as big as HO's then why are Atlas, Kato, and any others I haven't said still making models for us.
I agree, the N scale market isn't anywhere near the size of HO. This point was made earlier, and I'll make it again: just look at the number of new products brought out for HO every month, then compare it to the number of N scale products brought out every month. Not even a competition. Where there is demand there will be supply so as to force everything back into equilibrium, and as such, we can conclude that the greater supply in HO equates to a larger demand, ceteris paribus.
Yep..The same reason i went with Nscale. I do know of a RV'er who had a Ho Hum gauge layout in his basement of the motorhome. Cool. My RV don't have a basement. I have got permission to use the dinette. We are going to take the benches out and what ever the bases are made and put a rr in there and the boss will have a desk for her and i have mine.
