centenary wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 10:43 am
... I dont think any new entrant to the market does so thinking model railways is a money spinner. I think it's the opposite, being a money pit for manufacturers (and modellers) and very, very competitive in the sense of market share and profitability.
No way to join the mega-rich, but there has to be enough profit to make it viable, treated as an enthusiast motivated activity: 'This is what I want to do, and as long as there's a living in it, that's sufficient'. It's encouraging that individuals and small groups are still coming forward on this basis in model railway production.
Richard08 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 3:46 pm
... I've got them in the 'most likely to succeed long term and not end up being owned by Hornby' category.
It will be interesting to see the development of such 'shake out' in the medium to long term.
What's impressed me is that everything I have purchased from the 'new entries' over the last half dozen years has been both very good and useful expansion of choice in 'ordinary' items. The only small disappoinment is that Kernow have yet to offer anything I can use, so yet to see any of their product due to the predominantly LMS/LMR and LNER/ER centric interests of friends.
