I take every oportunity I get to make fun of the hobby’s ever growing number of rivet-counters and ultra-serious modellers. It seems that that is the direction that this hobby is heading.
RR Redneck,
How many rivet counters do you think there are?
Tom
Geez’s ,I should go count all the rivets on the side of the blast furnace. RR redneck ,I’ll let you know how many there are,so you don’t lose sleep. LOL.
Patrick
Ok, I’m back
No rivets to report,all welded sheet’s of steel…Sleep well.
Patrick
Ha Ha Ha, very funny smart ***!
I thought it was funny. Does your mommy know,you talk like that ?
Patrick
Funny. I was feeling lately that the forum is getting too many people who make fun of other people. Weird, hmmm? I guess we should just accept that it takes all kinds to make an interesting forum. [;)]
-Crandell
Oh my, rivet-counters are why I dumped HOn30 and went to large scale, too many grumpy old men poo pooing kitbashed and scratchbuilt Maine 2-footer models we liked because they were “not exact to prototype” of course someone would point out that of course they werent to prototype, if they were they’de be on scale 24" track and not 30" scale track! then came the fists, the chains, the knives, and the blood, rivers of blood! LOL
Why?
I was down in the swamp the other day when a train went by. All I could hear was the frogs counting, “Rivet, rivet, rivet…”
why make such negative remarks?
RR Redneck,
I think you have to distinguish between being a rivet counter on your OWN layout, or being a rivet counter on yours…and EVERYONE ELSE’S layout. I think you can be a stickler for details and detailing WITHOUT demanding and/or projecting those standards onto others.
Everyone has the right to choose how they want to enjoy this wonderful hobby of ours. For instance, some folks like Lionel. I don’t particularly care for the look of 3-rail because it looks too toyish and not prototypical enough for ME. BUT…I can still visit the Lionel RR Museum in Bryson City, NC (right next to the Great Smokey Mountain Scenic RR) and see their ~25 x 50’ O-scale layout and enjoy it for what it is.
We all have to draw the line how far we are going to model reailism. Some, like myself, lean more towards realism and prototypical modeling. Others enjoy more of a freelance approach. Both approaches are fine. YOU are the one who has to be comfortable with your own likes, standards, and goals for your layout.
I tend to be a stickler for details, but only to a certain point. What I might let slide, someone else might pull their hair out over. I try and do my best NOT to push my standards on others. This is model railroad; not life and death.
In closing, let’s just try and encourage one another one, without “demanding” or applying a measuring stick against how WE think others SHOULD run or detail their own layout, locomotives, or rolling stock.
Tom
Strange that rivet counters never comment on their,or others, actual rivet size, on an HO loco you can almost count them from across the room, oversize? you bet, otherwise, if true to scale, they would almost be invisible, this is right up there with someone buying a $1500.00 brass steam loco because they are so detailed as to prototype, but look inside the cab and see a big old chunk of the end of a motor, just where on the locomotive does the detailing stop? that’s always been my big question, anyone know??
Thank you Tom ,well said.
Patrick
That’s OK; the rivet counters are calling you a vestie right now.
Ah yes, the rivet counter!.
What is a rivet counter? Is it someone who counts rivets or is it someone who decides that a certain object isn’t correctly modeled?
I guess I can say that I’m a rivet counter. Oh ya!
Me, I’m a rivet counter! Who would have thought?
Take Kato’s CPR AC4400 for instance. It is not prototypically correct.
I won’t buy it because it isn’t prototypical to the ones I see on CPR’s track.
Gordon
Did Delaware and Hudson run PAs on the same CPR tracks that an AC4400 would be running on?? (your sig photo)…
Without rivet counters, there’s no P2K ,Genisis, Intermountain, and so forth, you’d still run tycos and lifelikes, with plasticville buildings and bottlebru***rees. Which by the way are perfectly okay in my opinion.It’s a hobby that’s supposed to make you happy, there’s no right or wrong, some of us prefer modeling close to prototype, some don’t.
Sure do, just not at the same time [;)]
Gordon
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 13, opps… did that… where was I?
