QUOTE (alastairq @ 20 Jul 2007, 09:26)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>This is a tad intolerant, is it not? I find it a trifle worrying that someone else may view my purchasing habits in such a way?
''stones in glass houses'' etc??
I have a heap of US prototype stuff, a lot scratchbuilt, nearly all modified in some way...all sat in various boxes in a cupboard...and have been for nearly 10 years now.
or simply someone with 'magpie' tendencies, who has zero commercial sense, who doesn't actually feel inclined to part with them?
but then I don't like Football.......oh dear....
I have near-zero interest in DCC......luddite?
I enjoy building my own track..........where's that 'nutter' paperwork???
Sorry if my post came across as intollerant.
I do indeed live in a glass house. I have lots of models in boxes but only because I am unable to start building a layout at this point in time due to space/other commitments and intend to do so in the near future, there are many modellers in this position. Every day I think to myself, "O why am I not using those models which I have stored...what a waste. etc." but my point was directed only against those who buy things with no intention of ever using or displaying them in the future, who just buy them for the warm glow inside it must bring them to know that in their safe deposit box at the Bank of England is a model of every Roco N scale coach ever made. Such people are a small minority, and I would think almost no-one on the Forum is such a deranged collector.
People with kleptomania need medical help. I have no interest in football, but then I don't have a television so I'm not likely to see any.
There is also a clear difference between such strange collecting and any of the other things you mention such as whether one watches football or builds ones own track and it is this; if A builds his own track this is entirely his business and in no way affects B, however if A has six brand-new unused Roco 24345 models in his safe deposit box and these were only produced in a finite quantity by Roco five years ago, how the hell is B going to get hold of one to use on her layout (when it is built of course!)? In this example A is clearly a tad deranged, and B is clearly a tad frustrated!
Goedel