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Re: Parts for Meijers in GATS
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Sun, 19 Aug 2001 14:11:20 GMT
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Peter & All,
> Rick, I don't mean to rain on your parade, but I think a 6-baseplate
> meijer's is way too big for a number of reasons.
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> First off, we're not going to have THAT much more space than in GR, and • you
> and Kai are already talking Army and Navy bases.
Actually, the GATS people said we can have as much as we want. So there goes
that.
> Second, I think it's going to be out of proportion with a lot of the other
> things at the show. A Meijer's almost as big as a car (go-cart) factory??
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> Third, taking up that much space will prevent a lot of other smaller
> buildings from going in the show. I fear we're headed to a day when our
> "train" show will be a church, a Shell station, and a Meijer's with a loop
> of track... Obviously that's a humorous exaggeration, but if by XL
> baseplates you mean the 15" gray ones, you're talking about 30" x 45". We
> could put a lot of buildings in that space.
Now, Peter, that's not a little bit of an exaggeration, it is an insulting
exaggeration, frankly. We don't have a scale standard, nor should we have
one. The first one we have is the older downtown area. If we have space
constraints, such as in GR, that's one thing, but
Novi, no. Not according to what the GATS people said, and not according to
the spirit we have in this group.
> I'd recommend you set your sights on a smaller Meijer's. My McDonald's is
> not to scale... but everyone knows what it is, it gets the idea across,
> and fits into the tapestry of our larger display. I would think you could do
> a Meijer's on 4 regular baseplates (not counting parking lot) and get the
> idea across better than with a behemoth... it would also cut down on the
> pieces you'd have to beg/borrow/steal/buy. Maybe the parking lot could be
> shared with something else, like I'll do with my fast food restaurants.
If Rick sets his standards high, let him, and see if he can actually build
it. If he can't then he can scale it back or whatever. Shooting down
anyone's idea just because of non-existant space contraints is not needed,
and counter-productive.
I think the GATS show in GR was a great example of both a train and a town
display, and I think we are headed for greater shows down the road.
Scott S.
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MichLUG Member, www.michlug.org
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| (...) No, actually, they didn't quite say that. I was there; they said we could certainly have more. And Chris made a tentative request for an amount of space, which is what I was going on with my comment. But if we're going to expand significantly, (...) (23 years ago, 19-Aug-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| Rick, I don't mean to rain on your parade, but I think a 6-baseplate meijer's is way too big for a number of reasons. First off, we're not going to have THAT much more space than in GR, and you and Kai are already talking Army and Navy bases. (...) (23 years ago, 19-Aug-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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