Further mutterings

Wee duggie has written a reply of sorts to Saturdays post re the relative states of NZ and Australian modeling.

"Do we really suffer from an el cheapo mentality in this sphere too, (perhaps inherited from our Scots & Irish forebears?) as M Druff has posed, or is it the 'number 8 wire syndrome" coming to the fore again. or are we really a third world economy, on subsistence wages?"

I've been pondering this and I think its more possibly a historical artifact (or combination of such). Back in the day to buy anything from overseas one had to face the Spanish (or post office ) inquisition to do so. Australia had more of a manufacturing base (Triang). We got north yard and a range of kits, whereas they got more RTR stuff. Skip forward 30 years and while local modelers are just as inovative as anyone else on the planet, it just hasn't taken that next step, and its still chaps tinkering in sheds.

Oh, and I may be wrong and its just down to the fact that we are all cheapskates. maybe there needs to be aconcerted effort to start marketing local prototype models overseas?