"frightening the natives"Well, 6 days several plane flights and a couple of computer crashes later (Air NZ can't seem to do a quick head count and reconcile the baggage without one it seems. No wonder air travel wasn't that popular before computers. How did anyone get anywhere).
I see on my return that far from the nutter's in charge of the asylum, It appears that a couple of old lady's have taken my blog for a spin down to the Vicars tea party. I was expecting the NZ model railway community to have filled my E-mail box with piles of nasty electrons or something...
To answer some of the comments from the previous post, the statcounter tells me the blog has 30 odd regular readers. The current modular standard was developed about 10 years ago and there have been a small number of modules built to it, though We are not sure of the exact numbers.
I would also point out that while its nice to have a local standard, New Zealand is small enough that it should prove possible to have a national modular standard for Nz120 to allow all modelers to build as much of a layout as they want, yet still have to opportunity (if it ever presents itself) to join in with a larger group. At present there seem to be no really strong pockets of modeling in the scale ( unlike the early 90's, with strong groups in Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin) so by in large it is isolated modelers messing around in the back shed. This comes back to Kiwibonds post. We all need to go out and seduce a fellow modeler (Oh err) to the dark side.
I also see that ECMT has announced in the comments section in the last post that the Trackside range was not destroyed as had been previously reported but has survived (so its now at least common knowledge i guess), and after a period of taking stock and hopefully some improvements will be made available again. The proprietor of this blog wishes the new owners much success. Hopefully this is where the scale draws a line in the sand and at least stops sliding backwards.
And finally, theres some Nz120 stuff up on trademe (not mine, so I have no ulterior motive).
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Photo captions:
"King Canute, you've done it again"
Or "King Canute surveys his days work"
It has proposed that IF there was a national standard to modules then modellers from an area could get together to connect up. eg. modellers from the Waikato, BOP, Auckland area could hire a cheap hall somewhere e.g Ngatea.
" Hopefully this is where the scale draws a line in the sand and at least stops sliding backwards."
That's how I've always felt regarding Trackside kits. There are a few faults to be ironed out, but they should halt the backward slide. And if too many more NZ120 producers were to get out of the market (how many do you think there are now ?), then where would the scale be ? We would have to resort to begging Kiwibonds to put more gear on Trademe.
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