Well, it has happened to me for the second time in a year (to be almost exact).
I have peculiar modeling tastes, so i often model particular models, and they are not always available. Often times, the only way to own a model is to build them from some obscure kit made more than 10-20 years ago, or is impossible to find. That is, until a month after you finish your kit...
Last year at this time, i had just completed my pair of E60 electric locomotives. The E60 had not been a common model to find, being made by to companies, which had either discontinued the locomotive, or dissappeared before i was even born.
True, the old Bachmann E60s are easy enough to find, but they were also of poor quality (truck mounted horn hooks with no pilots, plastic pantographs, pancake truck-motors, etc.). The other option were even rarer, older kits by American GK (very similar to Athearn).
About halfway through july i think i got my two kits, and soon i had my two E60s built. I only enjoyed about a month of having an unsual model.
It was at this time that bachmann decided it was time to re-release the E60CP model, with DCC and all. It is frustrating when you spend years hunting on ebay and trainshows for these models, for them to only get mass produced again a month later! wall1sign1
Fast forward to yesterday, i get this month's model railroader magazine. I open the cover, and what do i see? Walthers is re-releasing the GP15-1 in HO scale.... after my entire modeling career searching for some.
I finally found some good kits this past july, and when i did, i ordered three whole kits, because i figured i'd probably not see another GP15-1 for a long time...wall1
There are quite a few models i've been trying to find lately. I'm wondering if it is worth it to jump on them, or just wait another month and see what happens! sign1
Atleast i can justify it by the fact that my kits are better then the RTR stuff Bachman and walthers are pumping out (my E60s are brutes, and easily out class bachman's current model.).
Don't you just hate it when that happen?
Chris
I have peculiar modeling tastes, so i often model particular models, and they are not always available. Often times, the only way to own a model is to build them from some obscure kit made more than 10-20 years ago, or is impossible to find. That is, until a month after you finish your kit...
Last year at this time, i had just completed my pair of E60 electric locomotives. The E60 had not been a common model to find, being made by to companies, which had either discontinued the locomotive, or dissappeared before i was even born.
True, the old Bachmann E60s are easy enough to find, but they were also of poor quality (truck mounted horn hooks with no pilots, plastic pantographs, pancake truck-motors, etc.). The other option were even rarer, older kits by American GK (very similar to Athearn).
About halfway through july i think i got my two kits, and soon i had my two E60s built. I only enjoyed about a month of having an unsual model.
It was at this time that bachmann decided it was time to re-release the E60CP model, with DCC and all. It is frustrating when you spend years hunting on ebay and trainshows for these models, for them to only get mass produced again a month later! wall1sign1
Fast forward to yesterday, i get this month's model railroader magazine. I open the cover, and what do i see? Walthers is re-releasing the GP15-1 in HO scale.... after my entire modeling career searching for some.
I finally found some good kits this past july, and when i did, i ordered three whole kits, because i figured i'd probably not see another GP15-1 for a long time...wall1
There are quite a few models i've been trying to find lately. I'm wondering if it is worth it to jump on them, or just wait another month and see what happens! sign1
Atleast i can justify it by the fact that my kits are better then the RTR stuff Bachman and walthers are pumping out (my E60s are brutes, and easily out class bachman's current model.).
Don't you just hate it when that happen?
Chris