Everyone has favorite trains.
Sometimes manufacturers make them, sometimes they don't. A lot of people love to suggest certain trains to manufacturers while others make them out of modifications and detailing.
However, once in awhile, the item one desires does get made, maybe after investing a lot of time and money making it for themselves.
So, do you think patience is a virtue, or is now the best time to do anything?
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Everyone has favorite trains.
Sometimes manufacturers make them, sometimes they don't. A lot of people love to suggest certain trains to manufacturers while others make them out of modifications and detailing.
However, once in awhile, the item one desires does get made, maybe after investing a lot of time and money making it for themselves.
So, do you think patience is a virtue, or is now the best time to do anything?
Patience can be a virtue. But at other times it can be hesitation, and has been the ruin of many. Patience sometimes has its reward, as when you find that long-sought treasure: it feels i good when you find it, and for a few the hunt is more important than the treasure anyway . . . . it can be a disappointment, or at least the end of something important in your life, when you do finally find that holy grail.
On the other hand, hesitating - not realizing it just won't happen, or happen soon enough, and not taking another way (repaint another roadname, etc.) can ruin things, too. So having a base of facts and some intelligence to apply to it - often all lumped together as "common sense" - is more important I think, so a person knows when to wait and when not to . . .
I believe that you have to be realistic as to what the odds are that the special item you want has a chance of being made. As an example, I waited for several years and one of the passenger trains that was on my wish list just did not happen. I concluded that it probably would not, so I decided if it was ever to show up on our layout, I would have to take the initiative. Here is the result.
Sometimes it is better to wait for that special something. In most cases the wait will help one appreciate the prize even more. In our modern,"I want it now society" more and more people are drawn into modern day feeding frenzies.
I never fretted about new things to be made. My experience goes back from collecting postwar back to the late 1960's. All through the 70's to the 90's people like me were told the "well is drying up. you'll never see one again, buy it now or lose out" etc.
I now realize it never made a difference except in how much money I lost and how much self respect I gave up to the price gougers. Well, the gougers and the hoarders couldn't take it with them so the trains I couldn't get 30 years ago are now selling for a fraction of their 1986 panic price. Guess what? Now after all that's been done, I have a lot less interest and don't buy what I once yearned for.
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