#Bus mod rigs of rods windows#

It's a similar disparity to model enthusiast A with his mint unrun 1962 Hornby Dublo loco in original packing never removed from the box versus model enthusiast B with his Accurascale Class 37 P4 conversion fully weathered, windows replaced with Laserglaze because the RTR product doesn't quite cut it, brake chains replaced with finer scale, speaker replaced, decoder reblown with XYZ file because the supplied one is clearly remiss, still a bit bothered that the grille tumblehome doesn't look quite right at some angles, and unhappy because having hauled 70 HAA wagons for four hours nonstop the motor looks to have failed. There are record collectors who want mint copies of the first pressing that they will never play but want to 'own' whilst others will seek out audiophile editions or rated quality pressings, because it has been mastered and cut in a certain way and once it has been professionally cleaned on their £3000 Moth cleaner they will sit dead centre in their audio prepared listening room dead centre of the stereo mix listening on their £20000 valve deck with £5000 cartridge. In the same way that there are the 'operating' tribes that decry the 'collecting' tribes in model railways, vinyl collecting is a broad church. However, I wonder if being described as a collector is seen as less worthy than being called a modeller.īut even here the comparison with vinyl is closer than you might think. Railway modelling is more about creating and using, although for some collecting is a major part of the hobby. Finding, researching, buying, displaying, possibly even bragging. Collecting is, I believe, a pastime in itself.

I think the relevant word here is collections.

Bus mod rigs of rods