Post by Doug on Mar 15, 2014 21:58:27 GMT 1
Why is anything to do with railway modelling SO expensive in France?? Even a magazine is half the price of a bottle of whisky, and a trip to a model shop in Bordeaux left me gasping with shock....the equivalent of £14 for a plastic bag of Woodland Scenic 'foliage'....
I got the impression that in France it is a hobby for very rich people who want to buy ludicrously expensive models and accessories 'ready to plant' and not REAL modellers. For heavens sake, they are modelling in the world's most popular HO scale, not the U.K.'s iconoclastic 1/76th - OO system, which if global market forces dictated would be more expensive. There are 3 million HO modellers in the U.S.A. alone, before you consider all the European modellers in a continent where one train can pass through Belgium, France, Switzerland and Germany...
Grumph
I got the impression that in France it is a hobby for very rich people who want to buy ludicrously expensive models and accessories 'ready to plant' and not REAL modellers. For heavens sake, they are modelling in the world's most popular HO scale, not the U.K.'s iconoclastic 1/76th - OO system, which if global market forces dictated would be more expensive. There are 3 million HO modellers in the U.S.A. alone, before you consider all the European modellers in a continent where one train can pass through Belgium, France, Switzerland and Germany...
Grumph
